Pure Digital Thought

While poking around on a few blogs discussing E3 and news from Nintendo and the Wii, someone posted about Le Stick (scroll about 7 controllers down that list). I never knew the Atari 2600 had a motion sensing joystick. This was all the way back in the 80’s. Let’s see… that makes Le Stick, Nintendo PowerGlove, and the Logitech & Microsoft controllers. Are there any more dead failures from our motion sensing past?

Will the Wiimote or the PS3 motion sensing features really get used other than as a novelty for E3? In all honesty, when I play games, I’m usually lounging on the couch. The last thing I’m doing is jumping around and swinging my arms. When I’m up at 2:30 on a Saturday night, I’m half-asleep playing Oblivion. Swinging the Wiimote to hit something would just be a hell of a lot of effort at that time in the morning.