All About The Nintendo Wii Controller
The Nintendo Wii is the most revolutionary video game system on the market today. While it is not on the cutting edge of the graphics curve, the unique controller sets it apart from the other next generation consoles well enough to have pushed it to the top of the video game market. The Wii has outsold its competition because Nintendo took a chance developing an innovative new control system that would appeal to the masses and leave even hard-core gamers amazed. The Wii has done just that, amazed everyone by becoming the most popular game system all because of its unique controller.
The Wii controller, also known as the "Wiimote," is totally intuitive and uses the movement of the controller itself to move the cursor or character on the screen. Until the release of the Nintendo Wii, each game system had pretty much identical controllers. You held them with both hands and used one thumb to control a joystick or analog pad to move your character and the other to press buttons. With the Nintendo Wii's revolutionary remote you no longer had to use a clumsy joystick to control the action. Pointing the controller at the screen and moving it around would do the trick.
The Wii controller is powered by Bluetooth technology and contains accelerometers and gyroscopes that allow it to sense how it is being moved. The Wii remote can sense when it is tilted and rotated up and down, left and right and rotated around in a circle as if you were turning a screwdriver. It can also sense how fast each motion is performed.
The intuitive technology of the Wii remote makes it a controller anyone can use. You don't have to learn how to use a joystick or master confusing button configurations, if you can move your hand you can a game. The Wii controller is also fast and accurate. You can move a cursor from one side of the screen to the other with just a flick of the wrist. It responds just like you would expect it to when you point it at the screen moving in whatever direction you tilt the controller.
It adds a whole new level to many games that lost a lot of realism in the controls. Swinging a baseball bat, fishing pole or sword with a conventional controller is nothing like the real thing but with the Wii controller you maneuver these objects just like you would in real life. The ability to play games with this much ease and realism was what Nintendo was counting on to make the Wii popular and it proved to be a hit.
Because the Nintendo Wii is so popular, people naturally want to play together. The Wii controller uses Bluetooth technology to communicate with the console so up to four controllers can be used at the same time. There is no reason to worry about tangled cords or getting in each others way because the Wii controllers work up to 30 feet away from the sensor. The popularity of the Wii is because of all the innovation that went into the system and the controller is the most unique aspect. It allows anyone, even those who have never played a video game, to enjoy playing with precision and ease.
