I was flipping through some of the Digg upcoming stories when I saw one that referenced a patent for the Wii-mote (Nintendo Wii controller) that was filed back in 1993. It really caught my attention so I pulled up the Google Patent page that it linked to so that I could see for myself what the buzz was about. The item being patented is pictured above and this is the description of the unit:
About a week ago Paul Thurrott put together a great feature comparison guide for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Wii. He highlights many of the features that tech enthusiasts love to know about, like the processors and included RAM.
It has almost been a week and it looks like the sales of PS3's and Wii's have dwindled down a bit on eBay. I have seen some of the Playstation 3's go for as low as $850 which is just a few hundred above the actual cost of the system. That's not that bad considering the fact that the "real" sales on eBay were previously going for around $3000.
So the Playstation 3 gaming machine is finally out! Millions of people have stood outside stores and malls for hours upon hours just to be one of the first to get their hands on the $600 PS3. From the looks of it there are around 8,000 of those people who didn't even buy the system for themselves!
Just when you thought you were a mad gamer because you had a few different systems! The picture above is from Joystiq's contest and this was the winner who had 32 systems and 21 of them are actually hooked up.
Ben Heckendorn who created a portable 8-bit Nintendo console has improved the original 1.0 to be a bit more compact and smaller than the first! Of course it still has to be big enough to fit the oversized NES cartridges (you may even have to blow into them-- they are getting old!). It requires 4 AA's that are said to last a while, and also includes a head phone jack.
Nintendo had the big DS Lite Launch Party this morning at the Nintendo World Store in the Rockefeller Center. The line piled up because the first 100 buyers got a free copy of Brain Age and a carrying case.
