Mongrel: A recipe for Success, part 1

Take two different good things and combine them together.

Examples:

Wii - Ninetendo's winning game console

Nintendo took two simple technologies:

1. The Wiimote (http://www.x-arcade.com/newsletter/Wii%20Dupe.shtml)
   

   The second technology that brings it all together is the use of motion sensors. This could be accomplished with the use of Gyros, as Nintendo did buy a sizable amount of shares in the company Gyration, Inc back in September of 2001. But we do know it does use iMEMS® solid state accelerometers that detect motion by way of acceleration which were provided by Analog Devices, Inc. and/or STMicroelectronics. After much prying around at E3, I was told (by Nintendo's Developer Support) that there are three accelerometers at work in the Wiimote. There are also at least two accelerometers used in the nunchuck add-on to detect motion in it as well.
   

2. The Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii)
   

   • CPU: PowerPC-based "Broadway" processor, made with a 90 nm SOI CMOS process, reportedly^† clocked at 729 MHz^[47]

Instead of reinventing the wheel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_hardware) they took two good technologies and mashed them up.

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