Gaming Mice Get Benchmarked

Via Joystiq, an article at the ES Reality site where they do their level best to benchmark mice in a logical fashion. Post author Sujoy explains: "In this environment where performance is king, it's ludicrous to think that mouse performance has never been measured for reviewing the products. Imagine reviewing the latest graphics card in the same way. Without benchmarks, reviewers would have to resort to loading up their favourite game and commenting on how their frag count improved. You would have no way to compare NVIDIA and ATI cards apart from the quality of the packaging. Without benchmarking, graphics card reviews would be almost entirely useless. So why do we put up with mouse reviews that are just as useless?" They have scales based on control, speed, and DPI to determine how good, really, that mouse is.

Comments

22 pages?!?!?

[spire3661]

Did this article REALLY need to be split into 22 impres err I mean pages?

Logitech G5

[KiWiKiD]

I like to think I do an extensive amount of research prior to any hardware purchase, and have always had an issue with mice reviews as it is described in the article as it all seems to be arbitrary. Therefore I tend to option for reviews from Neweggers to determine what a good mouse is. In the drafting of the Christmas wish list I chose the Logitech G5 as the choice mouse this holiday season. Apparently 677 Neweggers can be wrong.

I am so disappointed...

[Odiumjunkie]

I genuinely thought that the headline read "benchmarking gaming dice". I was really looking forward to geeking out on twenty-two pages of twenty-four-sided goodness.

I'm sure this will make me look stupid, but...

[silvermorph]

Did anyone else think they were talking about actual animal mice? Grading their performance in, I don't know, tests or something?

Re:I'm sure this will make me look stupid, but...

[silentounce]

For the sake of slashdot I hope that that thought of yours did not extend beyond your reading of the subject.