Wiimote VS PowerGlove

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On various sites and forums I have heard people accuse the Nintedo Wii of being "Old Technology" and being "Over Priced for old technology." For some people to believe that the Powerglove has anything at all to do with the WiiMote, is simply not true. The WiiMote is a masterfully crafted little device which uses silicon micro-wafers and bluetooth technology to determine its 6-Axis Position, communicate, and store save data. The PowerGlove ran electricly charged magnets and relay sensors in the form of long bars that attached to your TV that attempted to detect the movement of the magnets (While as the sensors that come with the NES are, to be factual, not required unless you want to be a good distance from the Wii - they simply extend the range of the BlueTooth). Atop that, the Powerglove was fragile, and corded to the NES. Secondly, we must not over look the nex-gen features like built-in WiFi, standard emulation capabilities, reverse compatability with the last generation games, and above all else is the contoling sytle itself - This is why there are hacks to use a WiiMote on a Home Computer. Before long, I plan to release a WiiEmulator that will function fully like the wii does, except for maybe being able to play gamecube games, and that's just cause of scripting errors on my part.

Now I mentioned something earlier that may have confused some of our teenage reader: 6-Axis Positioning. What this means is that the Wii not only detects the up and down, side to side, and back and forth motion of the WiiMote, but it also detects pitch, rotation, and yaw (these are avation terms which refer to different tilts the WiiMote is capable of). You should try it: Get a Wiimote and point it anywhere on screen you like, then rotate it in your hand using your wrist - for the first time ever, the cursor will rotate. This may seem simple enough but the technology, namely the extremely sensetive Silicon Micro-Wafers, is brand new and by far one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. The WiiMote is hands down the first device of its kind, and hopefully not the last.

Technology wise, the PS3 and 360 are nothing new, just new parts. Yes you've got better graphics, blue tooth, and nice processors, yay for you. But rather than just buying state of the art parts and finding a way to throw them into an extremely large and heavy console, Nintendo designed the Wii virtually from scratch. I can give my computer the same graphics of a PS3 running 1080p with the purchase of an GeForce 8800, overclocked by BFG-Tech - and I could have got the blueray player any time I wanted to online. But if I wanted to emulate a Wii on my computer, there is no two ways about it, I have to buy a WiiMote and a BlueTooth Adaptar. Hands Down.

I urge any of you who think that the WiiMote and the PowerGlove are ANYTHING alike, to go try them out side by side. Then, if you can comprehend or appreciate new technology, take a look at the inner workings of both and look at how primitive the powerglove is, and how advanced the WiiMote is. Nintendo has always been years ahead of their time, and I'm sure that when they dreamed up the powerglove, they were looking for something similar to the WiiMote, but lets face it - the technology is cutting edge and brand new. Plus, the Powerglove was just one of many things the NES had that was ahead of its time and has since then been remade. Lets not forget the Track mat (now in DDR), the Zapper (Now used in every arcade, everywhere), the first joystick to sport a rapid fire option (now a standard on aftermarket controllers such as those by Pellican and MadCat). Nintendo has always dreamed big since day one, but for anyone to thing that they are re-using technology is incorrect, and you should perhapes take a better look at the things your comparing.

Additionally: Nintendo, as far as I can tell by tracking down the companant and calculating for production and distribution, is spending about $187 per console with WiiMote. These are ALL NEW PARTS and NEW TECHNOLOGY (Read Above), and being thus, are not cheap. You also have to think that Nintendo sells the consoles to gamestores and carriers for probably around $225, and the store than makes about $25 profit off of each one. So as far as I can calculate (and I run a computer business which does custom builds all the time, so I'm trying to be as acurate in this calculation as I can) Nintendo is only making anywhere from $40 to $60 profit at this time. Now when the price of production drops, the profit margin will rise, and if pressure is put on them from consumers or competition to then drop their prices they will.
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[Vicious88]

On various sites and forums I have heard people accuse the Nintedo Wii of being "Old Technology" and being "Over Priced for old technology." For some people to believe that the Powerglove has anything at all to do with the WiiMote, is simply not true. The WiiMote is a masterfully crafted little device which uses silicon micro-wafers and bluetooth technology to determine its 6-Axis Position, communicate, and store save data. The PowerGlove ran electricly charged magnets and relay sensors in the form of long bars that attached to your TV that attempted to detect the movement of the magnets (While as the sensors that come with the NES are, to be factual, not required unless you want to be a good distance from the Wii - they simply extend the range of the BlueTooth). Atop that, the Powerglove was fragile, and corded to the NES. Secondly, we must not over look the nex-gen features like built-in WiFi, standard emulation capabilities, reverse compatability with the last generation games, and above all else is the contoling sytle itself - This is why there are hacks to use a WiiMote on a Home Computer. Before long, I plan to release a WiiEmulator that will function fully like the wii does, except for maybe being able to play gamecube games, and that's just cause of scripting errors on my part.

Now I mentioned something earlier that may have confused some of our teenage reader: 6-Axis Positioning. What this means is that the Wii not only detects the up and down, side to side, and back and forth motion of the WiiMote, but it also detects pitch, rotation, and yaw (these are avation terms which refer to different tilts the WiiMote is capable of). You should try it: Get a Wiimote and point it anywhere on screen you like, then rotate it in your hand using your wrist - for the first time ever, the cursor will rotate. This may seem simple enough but the technology, namely the extremely sensetive Silicon Micro-Wafers, is brand new and by far one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. The WiiMote is hands down the first device of its kind, and hopefully not the last.

Technology wise, the PS3 and 360 are nothing new, just new parts. Yes you've got better graphics, blue tooth, and nice processors, yay for you. But rather than just buying state of the art parts and finding a way to throw them into an extremely large and heavy console, Nintendo designed the Wii virtually from scratch. I can give my computer the same graphics of a PS3 running 1080p with the purchase of an GeForce 8800, overclocked by BFG-Tech - and I could have got the blueray player any time I wanted to online. But if I wanted to emulate a Wii on my computer, there is no two ways about it, I have to buy a WiiMote and a BlueTooth Adaptar. Hands Down.

I urge any of you who think that the WiiMote and the PowerGlove are ANYTHING alike, to go try them out side by side. Then, if you can comprehend or appreciate new technology, take a look at the inner workings of both and look at how primitive the powerglove is, and how advanced the WiiMote is. Nintendo has always been years ahead of their time, and I'm sure that when they dreamed up the powerglove, they were looking for something similar to the WiiMote, but lets face it - the technology is cutting edge and brand new. Plus, the Powerglove was just one of many things the NES had that was ahead of its time and has since then been remade. Lets not forget the Track mat (now in DDR), the Zapper (Now used in every arcade, everywhere), the first joystick to sport a rapid fire option (now a standard on aftermarket controllers such as those by Pellican and MadCat). Nintendo has always dreamed big since day one, but for anyone to thing that they are re-using technology is incorrect, and you should perhapes take a better look at the things your comparing.

Additionally: Nintendo, as far as I can tell by tracking down the companant and calculating for production and distribution, is spending about $187 per console with WiiMote. These are ALL NEW PARTS and NEW TECHNOLOGY (Read Above), and being thus, are not cheap. You also have to think that Nintendo sells the consoles to gamestores and carriers for probably around $225, and the store than makes about $25 profit off of each one. So as far as I can calculate (and I run a computer business which does custom builds all the time, so I'm trying to be as acurate in this calculation as I can) Nintendo is only making anywhere from $40 to $60 profit at this time. Now when the price of production drops, the profit margin will rise, and if pressure is put on them from consumers or competition to then drop their prices they will.
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Crap like this really bugs me. Because people are trying to make their opinions out to be factual, and they're not. Its a lie. I mean, I can understand someone who is completely technologicly-illiterate comming to this conclusion, but some people just see something and say "Oh well thats the same as [insert something crappy]" and its not.

I see this all the time with computers and other forms of technology, but it is most common amongst gamming sites, and I can only suppose that is because these sites tend to be filled with amazingly ignorant little kids. I'm not saying their stupid, just that they don't know any better. But they border stupidity by having the chance to research something and refusing to do so, and they cross that border when they are corrected and wish to argue.

If the army invented a missle right now that instead of blowing up, sent out a burst of radiation that paralized people for an hour (non-lethal warfare), I bet these people would still be like "Well its not new technology at all because missels have been around for years." God, this ticks me off...... To make matters worse, these kids who were ragging on the Wii's credibility never do so in something where the wii is being questioned, no they always do it forums about Wii-Related news, or in something loosely related to the Wii, but not questioning its credibility.

Thats why in our Forums Rules here at InfoHub, it states clearly that when replying to News Posts - you must stay on topic, and you shouldn't come in and disrespect something or someone. People who 'think' they know what they're talking about just flat out bug me. Anyone who is going to come into a forum or website and disrespect something or someone they know nothing about is an inconsiderate moron, that's my opinion. Does that make it fact? Sadly, no.
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[Vicious88]

Crap like this really bugs me. Because people are trying to make their opinions out to be factual, and they're not. Its a lie. I mean, I can understand someone who is completely technologicly-illiterate comming to this conclusion, but some people just see something and say "Oh well thats the same as [insert something crappy]" and its not.

I see this all the time with computers and other forms of technology, but it is most common amongst gamming sites, and I can only suppose that is because these sites tend to be filled with amazingly ignorant little kids. I'm not saying their stupid, just that they don't know any better. But they border stupidity by having the chance to research something and refusing to do so, and they cross that border when they are corrected and wish to argue.

If the army invented a missle right now that instead of blowing up, sent out a burst of radiation that paralized people for an hour (non-lethal warfare), I bet these people would still be like "Well its not new technology at all because missels have been around for years." God, this ticks me off...... To make matters worse, these kids who were ragging on the Wii's credibility never do so in something where the wii is being questioned, no they always do it forums about Wii-Related news, or in something loosely related to the Wii, but not questioning its credibility.

Thats why in our Forums Rules here at InfoHub, it states clearly that when replying to News Posts - you must stay on topic, and you shouldn't come in and disrespect something or someone. People who 'think' they know what they're talking about just flat out bug me. Anyone who is going to come into a forum or website and disrespect something or someone they know nothing about is an inconsiderate moron, that's my opinion. Does that make it fact? Sadly, no.
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