{"id":617,"date":"2006-10-24T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2006-10-24T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T14:27:29","slug":"to-wii-or-not-to-wii-in2games-announces-new-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"to Wii or not to Wii &#8211; In2Games announces new controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interested randform reader knows that we are always on the look for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=404\">fancy<br \/>\ninput devices<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=9290\">Following announcements via gamasutra<\/a> Sony wants to use Linux on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PS_3\">Playstation 3<\/a>.  It is not yet clear how open this will be &#8211; but due to the announced functions of the PS3 game controller &#8211; it could be interesting for the crowdsourced developper to think about looking at PS3. <\/p>\n<p>However following <a href=\"http:\/\/saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/software-in-wii.html\">rumours on the Nintendo Wii<\/a> similar things hold true for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wii\">Wii platform<\/a>, i.e. the Wii platform probably won&#8217;t be open for development, but it seems as if at least an <a href=\"http:\/\/wii.nintendo.com\/iwata_asks_vol1_p3.html\">operating system update<\/a> could be made (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/games\/06\/10\/08\/1754219.shtml\">slashdot<\/a> for Wii-linux)<\/p>\n<p>After all these candid rumours from the far east it seems the british empire fights back (:)). The small company In2Games just announced a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in2games.uk.com\/corporate\/news-item.php?newsid=14\">controller<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in2games.uk.com\/corporate\/news-media.php?mediaid=331&#038;mediatype=IMAGE\">game trak fusion<\/a> for summer\/fall 2007 for approx. less then 50 Euros. Instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infrared\">infrared<\/a> they seem to use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultrasound\">ultrasonics<\/a>. According to In2Games <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The technology can be integrated into any input device. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One exciting function is the system\u2019s ability to emulate any other motion-based controller. This allows games designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii motion controller to be brought to any other format. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We used the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gametrak\">old-rope gametrak<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytar.de\/art\/seidesein\">seidesein<\/a> and liked it a lot. So this is very interesting news we find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interested randform reader knows that we are always on the look for fancy input devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,10,7,6,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}