I know right? They are super good for that and I still haven't managed to get my hands on one of the ones with a USB cable because of what people are charging for them used now.

Man, I miss mine so much

I bought one when they first came out, and one when they did the $5 liquidation sale when they were discontinued. I wish I'd bought more, just to be safe.

For real. I'm dreading the day mine stops working. It's taken some drops over the years but it's still going strong. Legit one of the best controllers ever made. I will absolutely die on this hill.

PS move to box in basement of mom house next to old Christmas lights, sister rocking horse, and grandma knitting needles.

Star Wars Kinect was the bomb

OMG the leap motion. Ten years ago it was set to revolutionize computer input. Where's now?

I assume cocaine also has some kind of ballmer peak

Strop removing the barriers. I don't want to accidently become a vtuber.

I have a kinect, I have to try this.

I've seen a chick playing 2 darksouls games one with ddr pad and one with controller at the same time fighting bosses lol

will likely fix something your players will be asking for

Or they will add Kinect support to your game. You never know.

Until recently I worked for a big telecoms company as a software engineer. We had time set aside for self development and non-work projects. Originally it was half a day a week, but we found it better to be a day every fortnight.

You could learn a new programming language or tool, build something just for fun or something you thought was useful for the team (we built a custom dashboard with notices etc., a quiz engine for weekly quizzes), or add functionality to a project that wasn't specced or requested, but you thought could add value.

After a while, a department wide code wars league was set up to challenge and learn, we had a yearly Easter egg hunt that involved solving puzzles to find prizes, people did lightning talks to teach things that they'd learnt, workshops, etc.

So much knowledge, skill and confidence was added to the team that was worth way more than what we'd do on any normal day. I'd recommend it to any technical team to try something similar.

Depends on the situation. Sometimes "the boring bits" need to be done. And supporting such an old hardware that nobody has won't pay off in 99.9% of the circumstances. It's basically lightning in a bottle type of deal. Also stuff like this can be done post release among bugfixing to give a dev a break from monotony.

I've done stuff for $50 too, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Wiimotes work on PC similar to any modern remote. They're refering to that.