Gaming could have been much more different today, if Sony and Microsoft hadn't passed on the oppurtunity to acquire the technology behind the Nintendo Wii controller.

The size of the US market sometimes catches me off guard and today is another one of those moments. In a PR stunt Nintendo have released the the number of Wiimotes that it has sold in the USA since the Wii was released and the numbers are pretty extraordinary. In total there are 63 500 000 Wiimotes in American households …

Sony’s motion controller? Prehistoric! Microsoft’s Natal? Hah, that’s old hat! I’d not even mention the Wii’s antediluvian Wiimote, except for that fact that’s it’s being used being used in what I would like to call “The Future” Some clever white coated Japanese fellas at the University of Tokyo have created 3 Dimensional Holograms that appear to have mass. They’ve done …

You may recall that shortly after the launch of the Wii was launched, an enterprising and somewhat rotund Asian genius by the the name of Johnny Lee gained internet fame for his particularly impressive Wiimote hacks. The most famous of which – Video after the jump – showed how infra-red tracking could be utilised for proper head-tracking, and thus lead …

The Nintendo WIi has had its time in the spotlight and now it is time to step down and let someone else take over the reigns as mass market leader. And up to the plate steps the re-brandable action figure controller, we are now no longer limited to simply swinging around a stick and watching the resulting action unfold on …