Topic: Nintendo wins another honorary award for Wii.

[BlkPaladin]

PC magazine gave the Wii their Technical Excellence award for gaming technology. For two things their chip-set, it may not be as powerful but is built to offer high-power with low power consumpsion." And even though the controller isn't the first to use gyroscopic technology it is the first on to do it well. (page 94 of the Dec 26, 2006 PC Magazine.)

[zakkiel]

If they actually use the word gyroscopes, you can pretty much disregard the article. They have no idea what they're talking about.

[Strell]

Doesn't change the fact that they like it.

[wandering]

Yes, but for the wrong reasons.

[zakkiel]

Doesn't change the fact that it's positive press coverage for the Wii. Does change the fact that it's based on complete cluelessness, which is kind of sad when giving an award for technical excellence. I mean, if there's one award where you want to have the technological facts right, that's the one.

[Ceric]

Wrong implementation but right concept.

[ShyGuy]

They said gyroscopic, not gyroscope. As in, "having the characteristics of a gyroscope" not "this is a gyroscope." I would consider being able to sense movement close enough to gyroscopic in description. Nintendo has never officialy confirmed they were using those electron movement spring thingies, right?

[zakkiel]

The chief characteristic of a gyroscope is that it tends to preserve an orientation for comparison, which would behave significantly differently from the Wii. IGN dissected one and confirmed once and for all that yes, the remote uses "electronic movement spring thingies."

[ShyGuy]

I thought they were electron small, so how would they be able to see the spring thingies without a microscope? Link?

[bustin98]

CNN confirms springs within Wii and PS3 controllers

[ShyGuy]

I stand corrected. PC Magazine's editors should be publicly flogged for their mistake. Also, let's punish Cable internet providers for referring to their connection devices as modems, as these devices do not MODulate or DEModulate anything. Furthermore, the national weather service staff should be severly beaten for referring to a "sunrise" and a "sunset." Anyone knows the sun does not rise and set, but the earth spins. Noobs!

[Ceric]

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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
I stand corrected. PC Magazine's editors should be publicly flogged for their mistake. Also, let's punish Cable internet providers for referring to their connection devices as modems, as these devices do not MODulate or DEModulate anything. Furthermore, the national weather service staff should be severly beaten for referring to a "sunrise" and a "sunset." Anyone knows the sun does not rise and set, but the earth spins. Noobs!

PUBLIC FLOGGINGS FOR ALL!!!!!

[zakkiel]

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PUBLIC FLOGGINGS FOR ALL!!!!!

Ooh, dirty!

[Flames_of_chaos]

Yeah Nintendo totally scored on those two I still cant believe that the Wii only requires 17 watts to run (with a game) while 360 needs about 147 watts which is a huge and drastic difference.