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.

I agree that those are all peripherals. But like I just showed, "as" can be used as a qualifier of quality.

I showed you that I never said "most accepted". I said "as accepted".

IT CANNOT OPERATE beyond turning the power on/off and inserting/ejecting discs

that is the whole point darling. It operates. The keyword that you yourself used is "beyond". That is what a peripheral does.

Let me give you that definition again:

A peripheral is a device attached to a host computer but not part of it whose primary functionality is dependent upon the host, and can therefore be considered as expanding the host's capabilities, while not forming part of the system's core architecture.

Attached to a host computer, but not part of it. It's primary functionality is dependant upon the host. (The wiimote is useless without a wii) It expands the host's capabilities (and here's where that word "beyond" fits) while at the same time, it's not part of the core architecture.

also, the emulator is dependant on the computer ie the host.Without a computer, the emulator is useless.

"to the same degree, amount, or extent; similarly; equally: I don't think it's as hot and humid today as it was yesterday."

Notice how this definition is the ONLY one in your list to use the "as _ as _" construction, which is what you did.  ("quite AS accepted AS the wiimote")  Therefore, this is the only way a reasonable person could interpret what you wrote if he assumed, as I did, that you were writing what you meant to say.  

This construction IMO cannot refer to "the way it was accepted".  It only refers to "the extent to which it was accepted".  Consider the bolded definition.  "Quality" only would apply in that something can be e.g. "not quite as pure as something else".  This is totally different from the meaning you have in mind IMO.  

(ESPECIALLY when one considers the use of "quite", which gives emphasis to things being said the way I interpreted it ("it's not quite as hot as it was yesterday") and not the way you meant it (... I can't even do it!)  Of course, "quite" has other applications, like "Quite so." and "It's quite hot." (oh wait, that's not different from the way I mean it) and "I've had quite enough of this." -- but I think I'm getting off topic.)  

Let's backtrack a moment.  You now have said that by "preipheral" you were referring to the fact that the Wii Remote is a controller, and that by "alternative" you meant "alternative type of controller".  

Thus
"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."
becomes
"It was only in this generation that an alternative type of controller peripheral finally found its place."  

Now which second sentence makes more sense, considering what you were saying before?
"It's been 20+ years and no peripheral has found acceptance in quite the same way the Wii Remote has"
or 
"It's been 20+ years and no peripheral has found quite as much success as the Wii Remote has"
?

!!!

Do you have any idea what you are talking about?  I don't mean ignorance of subject matter, I mean literally not knowing what you, yourself, are talking about.  

"This entire past has been a race to graphical dominance. 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."

Consider the first sentence.  Then consider how the second sentence follows.  It's perfectly clear to me that you are saying that the Wii Remote has found a place as an alternative to the graphics competition that has occurred in the past and which the other two consoles concentrated on.  

Now consider another quote from you:  
""as an alternative".
"As far as that is concerned, it is the most highly accepted alternative to a traditional controller"

Here, you are clearly saying that the Wii Remote found a place, not as an alternative to graphics wars, but as an alternative to traditional controllers.  

The Wii Remote is an alternative in both these ways, but only one of these ways appears to be what you were originally saying in the post that started all this.  

Or were you just making a completely irrelevant point in a discussion that's complicated enough already?  

I'll respond to this point, here, as it responds to both points.

You were right. I didn't really go back and reread what I wrote as much as you now obviously did. I was saying an alternative to the graphical race.

When I said no peripheral has been accepted quite like the wiimote, I don't think I was paying that much attention. What I meant was that, the wiimote controller was accepted to the point that it completely took the focus of our graphical ability. In that way, "as" is a qualifier of extent, because I don't think something like that has ever happened before. The wiimote completely changed gaming. Sure sticks and thumbs pads were different, but they all did the same things, they were different ways of manipulating an arrow. However, when dpads started becoming popular, the graphics were also better. Maybe it took this generation to discover that a change does not need to have better graphics.

...

"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."
"Yes I did mean another kind of controller.sorry" 

First off, let me apologize for getting that wrong.  I didn't check back to the "mother post" at the time.  But...

You LITERALLY don't know what you're talking about! 

You're right, I never went back and looked.

"it is the most highly accepted alternative to a traditional controller"

The D-pad was an "alternative" to the traditional joystick controls.  
The thumbstick was an alternative to traditional controllers that had only a D-pad.  
Rumble was an alternative functionality of controllers.  
And now motion controls have become an alternative to traditional controllers that lack them.  

They're alternative ... until they are accepted ... and become the standard ... and become part of what you have decided to call "traditional controllers".  

And for the record I dislike this usage of "alternative" since it implies that the Wii Remote is non-standard, which it's not (for its console, which is the only sensible thing for us to be talking about).  

My post in the middle of this quote is a convenient answer for this portion too.