Originally posted by: el_boss
I didn't say anything about rotating your wrist. I said "...it will still be annoying that you have to move your entire hand instead of just the thumb..." But now that you say that you have to tilt the entire arm, that's even more annoying. I'm not arguing wether the controller works in any direction, which you have explained that it does. I'm merely saying that you won't be able to play properly with it pointed at any direction. As I said "...try rotating your mouse 90 degrees and you will see what I mean". Maybe I wasn't clear, by "mouse" I meant the computer-mouse.
You're being very presumptuous for someone who's never built an ergonomic device in his life to criticize a company that pretty much invented controllers 20 years ago...and basing this off a picture no less.

First of all, I use a wacom tablet at home and at work, and to use a tablet, i have to keep my arm suspended in the air as i move a stylus around. Moving your arm really isn't all that hard, and is much more ergonomic than moving your wrist.

Second of all, you're wrong about saying the game won't play properly pointed at a different direction. There's a thing called "calibration", where all movement is relative to the initial calibration point. If you hold a controller analog stick to the top when you turn your system on, then the default center position of that analog stick will act the same way as normally holding down on the stick would act. This is because it thinks the top of the the stick is center, and that the center of the stick is bottom. Same principal applies: It's all relative.

Probably the best comparison to make with the remote is to try out a gyro mouse. Actually, that's a damn good comparison now that I think about it, cause I've actually used a gyro mouse before, and it's pretty comfortable and functional.

Edit: oh I see what you meant by rotating a mouse 90 degrees. Still doesn't matter, though, because (at least last i checked) the device monitoring the motions are external from the remote itself, unlike a mouse where the monitoring takes place within it.