Popular Gaming-Mice Technologies Debunked

Think all gaming mice are the same? SteelSeries doesn’t think so, and they help prove it with a new blog entry. We posted just a few weeks ago about their announcement of the Ikari Optical and Laser gaming mice, which are truly developed for gamers, with the help of gamers. As mentioned in the blog, SteelSeries is one of the very few game-peripheral companies that actually test their products in real-world scenarios, namely LAN parties.

If you are interested in gaming mice at all, this read is worthy of your time. It’s no small article though, so you might want to refill that coffee first. Many popular gaming-mice-features are debunked, including DPI, laser technology, on-the-fly DPI and more. After they explain why certain technologies are senseless, they go into detail about how they plan to correct the situation with their upcoming Ikari.

When a company mentions DPI in the same sentence as precision, or anything else regarding better tracking, it is simply bullshit. First of all the term DPI (Dots Per Inch) has nothing to do with mice. It’s an expression from the printing world and shouldn’t even be used to describe mouse movement.

Source: FragYou!