http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft's SideWinder gaming mouse gets reviewed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
I'm looking for a mouse... and this is my first choice right now.]]>Sep 28th 2007 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
Anyways I don't really believe too much in the whole "gaming-specific-hardware" -- I mean if you suck at a game, it doesn't matter how good your hardware is, it still wont make a difference when BOOM HEADSHOT! - and you're dead. ]]>Sep 28th 2007 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
That's half true half false. It won't help someone that sucks at gaming, but it will help someone that is really good. There's a wall you can hit where you're pretty much as good as you can get, and so is everyone else you're competing with. Any small advantage over another is extremely important in the scenario.]]>Sep 28th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Oct 1st 2007 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
It's pretty much a regular looking mouse with a fugly box on the side.

My Deathadder looks twenty times better...]]>Sep 28th 2007 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 28th 2007 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
If there were a wireless version of this I would give it a go, I'm not good enough at any game to worry about the half millisecond delay with wireless (I assume that's why most "gaming" mice (mouses, meese?) I see are wired).]]>Sep 28th 2007 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
The sidewinder is ugly as hell, but it looks effective... I love those side buttons!]]>Sep 29th 2007 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
Are you going after Microsoft for putting money in these people's pockets? There are a lot of people involved in getting this mouse from theory to design to manufacturing and to the shelf? Your comment doesn't say anything, it only implies your malice towards Microsoft.]]>Sep 29th 2007 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
I do like my MS wireless mouse I use now, and I don't really want to go back to a wired mouse. So I can just look at like that. Thank goodness it's not wireless, I feel so much better now.]]>Sep 29th 2007 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/ [...] LCD screen was dubbed "actually useful" [...]

Just how "useful" it is?

For over all the time I was buying and helping others to buy gaming gear (for PCs), main point of such gear was to not to distract player from screen by tuning controls more optimally (eat that, console freaks).

IOW, the LCD screen is useless by default, because nobody during game has time to look at at. Main point of mouse is to be "invisible" - it is continuation of your hand in the game. Consequently screen is bit like defies the purpose.

Those all those extra buttons are welcome.

High sensitivity? I'm not sure about that. But probably I wasn't MPing Doom3 enough recently. I mean where do you really need that kind of sensitivity - 2000dpi? 800 was always plenty even on sanely high sensitivity set in game. I'd say in good game lower sensitivity is more than enough. In bad game, you can be pretty sure that extra sensitivity would be wasted by software.

Though, I know some gamers of past, who now would buy that thing right away - only for its name.

P.S. I wish M$ has implemented in Wind0ze the same thing as in Linux - dynamic number of mouse buttons. Two game controllers I have were easily setup under Linux w/o any hustle (I'm lying: no setup was required at all). Under Windows all such stuff requires extra drivers what is hustle because such drivers are often of sh*tty quality. (M$ drivers are rather exception - they are good.) But it is really stupid when OS with boasted good hardware compatibility dies miserably at hands of of some crappy drivers.]]>Sep 29th 2007 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
How silly it is if OS gets totaled by *trackball* *driver*!??
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It's a mouse dude! Relax!]]>Sep 29th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
Better call me a Mac OS X missionary then. I compare Wind0ze to Mac OS X more often than to Linux.

P.S. "M$" and "Wind0ze" are honorary titles used for bug reports. To highlight (1) priorities ($$$$) and (2) actual state of M$ OS development (canned). Nothing to be shy away from.]]>Sep 29th 2007 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 29th 2007 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Sep 30th 2007 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://cgi.4chan.org/r/src/1191183593592.jpg]]>Sep 30th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/
- kuzu-b (the real one)]]>Sep 30th 2007 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/28/microsofts-sidewinder-gaming-mouse-gets-reviewed/Dec 27th 2007 6:18AM