What makes these "gaming" mouse best for playing computer games?
Some people feel that these mice's are gimmicky. Some are, there is no denying that but some aren't even if they look that way and are marketed that way, they do what they do.
The primary problem with standard mice is the cost cutting methods to build cheap and sell high. So they can't do the job even though some of them are capable of like the Microsoft Wheel mouse optical 1.1, Intellioptical 1.1, wheel mouse optical 3.0 as well as some of the older Logitech MX300; 310 and a few of their older mice which had good engines. like G1 and G3 if I'm not mistaken. Usually though you need to overclock the polling rate to 500Hz or 1000Hz, this benefits the engine for example the WMO/IO/IME all use the same engine their max tracking speed is 1 m/s but when overclocked past 250Hz they can track 1.5 m/s.
The biggest factor is the engine and it's capabilities.(completely forgot):, shape and comfort very important maybe equally important as the engine specifications and capabilities).
- Tracking speed(meters/inches per second it can track)
- image processing(frames per second of the engine, how many times it takes an image in a second of the surface)
- DPI(amount of pixels per inch e.g. 2000DPI = 2000 pixels per inch to the movement you performed),
- acceleration(how many Gs(gravity) of force it can handle)
- polling rate(how many times the computer asks the mouse where it's at and how many times the mouse sends back the position back per second)
- Additional buttons
- With or without mouse correction/prediction(humans don't really make lines as straight as they want so the engine corrects the mistakes and instead of having a free-flowing line to your movements it's nearly straight) etc.etc.
Basically while there are different sensitivities of use high, medium, and low. In particularly medium and to a greater extent low. Some of these low sensitivity players can cause a mouse to fail to track. Lower sensitivities use their arm to sweep their view in some cases they can reach 100cm/360.
Now some people will say that who cares people use regular mice and they do well, even the "pro gamers" use cheapo 15 dollar mice. Well yeah it's true but at the same time it's mostly out of habit for a lot of people. Now I'm not one to outright say they are not worth the money.
But it depends on which one you get. I have used the deathadder and I should have gotten it a lot sooner then when I got my G5 before it. But I asked for an RMA got the G500 and loving it. Replaced my deathadder and the deathadder aside from the price is a pretty basic looking mice but back in 2007 when it was released and even to this day it's considered to be one of the greatest gaming mice released. So I guess in the end the G5 was a great investment.
So either way a lot of people will say gaming mice are a gimmick this and that. It's not for everyone if you feel your 15 dollar microsoft mice does the job well okay then. But there's gonna come a time where I'm sure people might consider it.
It's a pretty debatable thing especially with the DPI wars going on between the mice companies. I like to do the research beforehand if your someone who is willing to spend money, research cause really no one is putting a gun to your head to buy it.
