#FF00AA

@games@

“So what if it were possible to hook [a Wii controller] to a Mac?” *drool*

A quick Google search tells me that the Wii has USB, so it’s quite likely the “wand” (the apparatus that you put on top of your TV and that seems to triangulate, or, uh… biangulate the controller positions, and likely also serves as an antenna) would be a USB device (worst case scenario, using a proprietary connector as a deterrent), so what would there be to prevent you from hooking it up to your computer?

I don’t know much about USB protocols, but hacking together a driver to interpret Wiimote data can’t be too complicated. Nintendo might as well embrace the market opportunity and release the drivers themselves, sort of their own version of Boot Camp.

It’s a damn shame that Steve Jobs loves Sony so much, or he’d already be all about licensing the technology for that ever-elusive Mac mini media center. Maybe he’ll be touched, though, by how Nintendo expressed their affection for Apple design when they gave birth to the DS lite and Wii.

@games@

Meanwhile… EyeToy Lemmings.

@computer@

Meanwhile… Clié customers who felt abandoned by Sony are going to be feel quite an itch.