The Nintendo Wii remote is iconic in its simplicity. It’s designed in a way that manages to successfully blend motion controls with more conventional buttons. Thanks to how approachable Nintendo made ...

Last year, Nintendo sought to improve the Wii's controls with the Wii MotionPlus, an accessory for the remote that used a more precise and sensitive gyroscope to supplement the remote's accelerometer.

Anyone who's been a gamer for long enough remembers "the waggling years," the period in the seventh generation of video game consoles in which everyone wanted to make motion controls happen. Naturally ...