We've seen enough living room family gaming promotional videos to last us a lifetime. Nintendo started it with the Wii a few years back, but here recently both Sony and Microsoft have been putting their own versions out with their new alternative control schemes. Today we saw a trailer that showed off what Sony's new controller, the motion sensing Move, could do.
The trailer we saw at Sony's press event featured wireframe overlays of what the Move controller was to represent in each gaming situation shown. Golf clubs, boxing gloves, ping pong paddles. You know the drill. The wireframes were like Sony's own high production value touch to the living room family gaming videos. If you pull out the glowing orbs, you kind of get the feeling that you've seen this video before.
Later, the trailer shows examples of many of the Move games we got to try out. Look for our hands-on reactions soon.
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8:00 AM on 03.11.2010
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What the Wii does
u mad?
1) You're always looking at the camera.
2) The camera has a hard time extracting just 'you' from the picture, unless you live in an empty white room with no furniture.
3) The actual you clashes with the non-real background and props giving you a horrible 'You're in the Movies' feeling.
Sony please remember uncle Ben:
with great power. comes great responsibility
I have no idea how well NATAL will work, but at least it looks more innovative and technologically advanced than this ridiculous glowing ball - eye toy Wii wanabe peripheral that is being force fed into every upcoming PS3 game. People playing SOCOM 4 with this thing are going to get spinning sixty-nined Haken style while using this thing. If you've seen the new Super SFIV footage of Haken's finishing move, you'll know what I'm talking about.
But I do love Jamiroquai so props to the soundtrack.
AHAHAHA!!!
It's only funny because it's true.
i think its gonna be way better than the wii. 1:1 with more engaging content and better graphics. im kinda looking forward to this. because it wont be all childish games that use this.
would you complain if the new castlevania lord of shadows let you choose to use it? if so why?
would it suck if you had the CHOICE to use it in a FPS game? why?
people are complaining for the sake of complaining. wait till you try it then judge.
a: a Wii or 360 owner with envy
b: a tool that thinks everything cylindrical and fits in the hand is a penis or sex toy
c: completely in denial and needs to wipe the crust from their eyes
I'll stick with you but you forget to mention $ony invented it!
anyone who can't see that this is going to be awesome is either
a: a Wii or 360 owner with envy
b: a tool that thinks everything cylindrical and fits in the hand is a penis or sex toy
c: completely in denial and needs to wipe the crust from their eyes
bingo!
i sure hope these things have rumble like the penis shaped wii remotes and the penis shaped nun-chuck.
i know gamers are usually immature but grow up people.
"anyone who can't see that this is going to be awesome is either
a: a Wii or 360 owner with envy
b: a tool that thinks everything cylindrical and fits in the hand is a penis or sex toy
c: completely in denial and needs to wipe the crust from their eyes"
Silly Heman, you forgot one:
d: someone who owns a Wii, 360 AND PS3 but thinks his Wii is more of a gimmick than anything and doesn't get excited when he sees an HD upgrade of said gimmick.
PS - Believe it or not, some of us think Move and Natal are EQUALLY unappealing. (Yes, we do exist.) Just because we don't like the looks of the "new" motion control generation (so far) doesn't mean we are an "Xbot" or some other retarded stereotype.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: show me a game that benefits from this type of controller and I will be onboard in a heartbeat. None of the Wii games I have enjoyed (save Wii Sports) have actually BENEFITED from motion controls. (Metroid Prime would have been just as fun with dual analog sticks, and the Wii Mario games only use the Wiimote as a way to spin jump.) And I'm not about to invest $100 just to play Wii Sports in HD...
Regarding the actual design of the controller itself, I have mixed feelings. I realize that the Sony Eye Toy thingie needs the "Move's" ball to glow in different colors to determine the positioning of the "Move." That said, it's kind of dumb looking, and if the thing is changing colors constantly, I could see that getting a little distracting.
If the "Move" does wind up being much more precise and accurate than the Wii controller, then I really do think there could be some cool applications for this tech. How long have we waited for a good lightsaber game?
On the other hand, it seems like Sony is force feeding 'Move" controls into every upcoming PS3 game. I understand the importance of having the option to use it, but I really can't forsee this controller working well with games like SOCOM 4. My arm would be tired after 3 minutes of aiming at people. And trying to move your guy using the other controller while aiming just seems really unintuitive. I dunno, I'll have to wait and try it to see for myself, but it just seems like a little much to handle compared to a standard dual-shock 3 controller.
Final thoughts, the fighting and archery games look cool, but the controller seems to lag -- a lot -- at this point. Hopefully those issues will be fixed once the software moves past the alpha stage.
Can i get a Wii wii?
http://kotaku.com/5491150/motion-fighter-putting-science-back-into-the-sweet-science
I think motion could have worked. But because Nintendo put it out first and did it in an abyssal dysfunctional low tech manner, they killed any and all enthusiasm for those of us who really love gaming [outside of party games and a few other first party titles] and may have been willing to part with our controllers to some degree.
I mean, if motion had started with HD games like GTA, or Madden, or CoD and at the level that Move is showing or the Wii motion plus, things might have been different. But now I just don't give a crap. It just looks stupid.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: show me a game that benefits from this type of controller and I will be onboard in a heartbeat.
Welcome on board sir; FPS games will benefit greatly from this technology. You won't have to translate those tiny little thumb movements into the broad sweeping motions that correspond to the natural motion of swinging the camera around to look around. This might not register anything important to you immediately, but I'm sure if you have ever played a PC FPS or seen people playing PC FPS games in tournaments you will notice many of them use enormous mouse pads so they can move their arms in wider arcs so they can look around more easily. I could probably write a complete thesis regarding this phenomenon and elaborating even further with detailed motion analysis charts and phase graphs but choose not to at the moment.
Please correct me if you feel that what I say here is not a valid example of an entire genre that will benefit from motion controller technology. -MH
What do you mean Wii JUST NOW got 1:1 motion. They have had it for 6 months. The PlayStation doesn't even had it yet?? Its not out yet??
Anyway just wanted to clear that up. Once I get my PS3 I am def. going to buy it. The sad part is that the devs are flocking to the PS3. Now finally Nintendo will get good 3rd party game ports. The devs will finally stop being lazy... hehehe
Fuckin agreed, man. Jamiroquai made this more awesome than what it probably is. Much props to Sony for including a song this badass to promote this.
(Led Zeppelin for PS4!)