Audio, video, simulation, and user interface paradigms

A video game system, comprising:

• a wireless game controller comprising:
• a button configured to receive a player input to a video game,
• a plurality of sensors, each of the sensors coupled with the button and configured to generate a different control signal in response to the player input at the button, wherein different control signals of the plurality of sensors correspond to different pressures sensed along at least three dimensional axes,
• an additional sensor configured to sense a holding of the wireless game controller by a player and to trigger the wireless game controller to power on in response to sensing the holding, and
• a data communications interface configured to send the different control signals of the plurality of sensors to a game console;
• and
• the game console configured to host the video game, receive the different control signals, and generate a control action from the different control signals, the control action corresponding to the player input.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• sensing, by a wireless game controller, a holding of the wireless game controller by a player;
• powering on, by the wireless game controller, a plurality of sensors in response to the holding being sensed, wherein the plurality of sensors are coupled with a button of the wireless game controller;
• receiving, by the wireless game controller, a player input at the button of the wireless game controller, the player input associated with a control action in a video game hosted on a game console, the button coupled with a plurality of sensors;
• generating, by the wireless game controller, different control signals in response to the player input, each control signal generated based on a pressure sensed by a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors in response to the player input at the button, and the different control signals corresponding to different pressures sensed along at least three dimensional axes;
• and
• sending, by the wireless game controller, the different control signals to the game console, the different control signals causing the game console to generate the control action in the video game.