A Japanese Group has taken it upon themselves to do the unthinkable — to get the Wiimote to work on the Playstation 3. And they’ve succeeded. To get it to work, the group wrote a Wiimote driver for Linux, and ported that driver over to the version of Linux that the PS3 runs (it wasn’t made clear whether it was the official Yellow Dog Linux, Fedora Core, or Gentoo, all of which have been reported to work with the PS3).
There’s not much information on the announcement page except for a few screenshots and pictures of the Wiimote hooked up to the PS3, and the driver information page, but it looks to be legit.
Now, on to my argument: Why? I mean, seriously, it’s not like you’re even going to be close to playing any PS3 game while using the Wiimote. Unless they make like a Wii Emulator for the PS3 (which would be cool, but pretty useless especially considering that you cna almost get 3 Wiis for the cost of one PS3), then there’s really no point to having the ability to hook up your Wiimote to your PS3. I suppose it’s one of those, “Hey, look what we can do!” things, but there’s no purpose, really.