Final-Fan said:
"It was only this generation that a peripheral finally found it's place as an alternative. It's been 20+ years and no peripheral has been quite as accepted as the wiimote."
As an alternative? A controller as an alternative to a controller? If you really meant "as an alternative type of controller", you wrote it wrong.
As for your other point, it's bullshit. If nothing has been as accepted then that literally means it has been accepted more than anything else; i.e. it has been the most accepted. (Nothing having been "quite" as accepted means the same thing unless you want to claim it implies only being the most-accepted by a small margin, which makes no difference to the point.)
"the quote is talking more about the way it was accepted and not how much it was accepted."
If this is really what you meant, then you wrote it in completely the wrong way and no reasonable person with a standard understanding of English would have read it that way. (I suppose that's redundant but whatever.)
You should have written something like, "no peripheral has been accepted quite LIKE the wiimote", or, even better, "accepted in quite the same way that the wiimote has been".
If you had written it that way, then (once I understood that you meant "peripheral" to mean "controller") I would have agreed with you, since no controller has been fought the way the Wii Remote has been.
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Yes I did mean another kind of controller.sorry
The word "as" is both a qualifier of quantity and quality. It can be interpreted either way.
to the same degree, amount, or extent; similarly; equally: I don't think it's as hot and humid today as it was yesterday.
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for example; for instance: Some flowers, as the rose, require special care. |
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thought to be or considered to be: the square as distinct from the rectangle; the church as separate from the state. |
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in the manner (directed, agreed, promised, etc.): She sang as promised. He left as agreed. |
Final-Fan said:
Also, your use of the more general term "peripheral" shoots yourself in the foot. Here are some things that could be considered "peripherals":
Battery memory in game cartridges -- before which you couldn't save your game in a console. I think this took off pretty well.
Optical discs instead of cartridges (consoles having optical drives) -- the only console maker to buck the trend got hammered in sales and their next console used optical discs. The parallels to motion controls are considerable.
Online capability (consoles having modems/network connectivity)
etc.
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I agree that those are all peripherals. But like I just showed, "as" can be used as a qualifier of quality.
Final-Fan said:
theprof00 said:
wait! What did you want me to respond to? There was nothing else in that post!
Are you asking me to respond to the "most rejected" thing?
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As for "most accepted", wouldn't the most sensible measure be the amount of the gaming community that is accepting it? The NES wins by far in that case, right? (The Wii certainly doesn't.) [by "amount" I meant "proportion", i.e. 85% of gamers or whatever]
And now you're talking about "best-designed", which, although I agree, is a very different thing.
That's two other things in that post. The "most rejected" thing was another point underscoring how very wrong the "most accepted" thing is. [edit: Looking at it from another angle than my original point did.]
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I showed you that I never said "most accepted". I said "as accepted".
