The weirdest PS5 accessory ever is made by Pizza Hut and it’s free-Michael Beckwith-Entertainment – Metro

What a weird idea (Pizza Hut)

It seems fake at first, but Pizza Hut has genuinely made a pizza warmer you can stick on top of your PS5, but it’s not exactly easy to get.

April Fools’ Day is typically awful when it comes to video games, either because companies announce fake stuff people would actually want, or the pranks are simply not funny.

Take Pizza Hut’s attempt, which is so obviously fake you can’t even laugh at it: a PlayStation 5 accessory that uses the console to warm up pizzas.

Except it’s not April Fool’s Day and this is actually real, although getting hold of one is pretty tricky and requires some additional hardware.

How to get the PS5 Pizza Hut warmer accessory

To be clear, this isn’t some device you attach to the PlayStation 5. The warmer is a plastic box you simply sit on top of the console while it’s lying horizontally.

You then pop your cold pizza in, and the heat generated from your PlayStation 5 (while it’s on, obviously) warms it up. We’re not sure who was demanding such a niche product but, to Pizza Hut’s credit, it doesn’t cost a penny and is available for free worldwide.

However, you need to make it yourself using a 3D printer, after downloading the schematics from the Pizza Hut Canada website. That’s fine for anyone who already owns a 3D printer, but they’re not exactly cheap and typically cost hundreds of pounds.

At the end of the day, this is a marketing stunt, but we’d be interested to know how effective it’s actually been. Maybe it made more of a splash in Canada, but this thing came out over a month ago and it seems people are only now hearing about it.

In fact, the official YouTube trailer for it remains unlisted, meaning it’s not publicly available on the Pizza Hut Canada YouTube channel. So maybe Sony complained and they quietly brushed it all under the carpet.

Even so, this pizza warmer is somehow not the strangest gaming related product a fast food chain has made. Let’s not forget how, in 2020, KFC made an honest to goodness console that could reheat chicken while you were playing games on it.

What next? A Starbucks branded coffee holder for your Nintendo Switch? A McDonald’s burger grill you can stick on top of the Xbox Series X?

Maybe that’s what Microsoft is planning for its future hardware. Given how nebulous the state of the next generation of gaming consoles is, frankly anything seems plausible.

How many people actually bought this thing? (KFC)

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