Roccat Gamifies its Next Mouse With 4000 dpi Sensor
The device offers true 4000 dpi resolution and covers a lighting spectrum of 16.8 million colors, as well as few design gimmicks such as a braided cable.
Roccat is also the first mouse manufacturer to embrace gamification techniques. In fact, we are not aware of any hardware that would employ game mechanics to promote the engagement with the hardware itself: According to the manufacturer, the user will be rewarded with badges and awards for certain achievements. Gamification is an emerging industry in the marketing segment that leverages common game mechanics such as competitive gameplay, strategy development, application feedback, scores, prizes and social networking to change the behavior of users in certain applications and convince them to spend more time with a certain product or brand.
Roccat said that it will provide details about the rewards system as well as full product specs and pricing at CeBit, which opens on March 6.
...braided cables as opposed to cables insulated with pvc. Both do exactly the same job, but the braided cables look *and* feel sexier than pvc, but holds no real functional advantage over pvc. Hence the "gimmick".
Probably some of those achievements and badges:
- Clicker: click one time
- Reverse clicker: click with the right button
- Warp-time clicker: double click
- Traveler: move your mouse
- Rolling in the deep: use your mouse wheel
LOL
Who is really going to use 4000dpi?
Braided cables are higher quality than PVC.
My Razer Mamba does 5600dpi. Normally I keep it around 2200dpi. I like the speed it allows me to work faster. Some of you may think that 5600dpi is overkill but it works well when you have three monitors.
I've owned 2 logitech gaming mice and 3 razer mice with braided cables. Out of those, 3 of them died due to cable problems. I find the braided cable ends up twisting more as I use the mouse as opposed to the old style plastic cords. So 1 logitech and 2 razers dead due to what I believe to be the use of braided cables. One of them died due to the left click not registering all the time(had to click really hard) and the other one I swapped out to a newer mouse, it still works fine.
Compared to how my family members use it, that is "high" sensitivity. My brother uses 450 for his DPI with that mouse...haha
use must be using acceleration then, which is not good because it's inconsistent