I have no idea why people seem to dislike Sony's motion control solution so much. I don't get it. It's taking what the Wii does, but doing it better, and it at least has a controller, unlike MS' offering.

Seriously, do you really want to play a racing game with Project Natal? Or a gun game?

Who shoots people with their fingers? Who drives a car with no steering wheel of any kind?

Does anybody get what I'm saying?

I'm with you Eternal...100%

New details on PS3's motion control make it sound less sucky

It sounded sucky at one point? News to me.

To echo people on this, but at no point the motion control sound sucky, at least technologically speaking. The marketing may have been, but I find a frank speech by two engineers more convincing than a giant spectacle with smiling families and Steven Spielberg rambling on and on.

Actually, I found the E3 presentation of Sony's motion controller to be very charming. My wife giggled and smiled a lot while watching it.

We'll be getting the hardware for it day one.

@AKK
WHAT? wiimote+nuncuck+motion plus = 40 + 20 + 25 = 85
don't act like the wii is inexpensive. 25$ for functionality that was promised from teh start sounds like a rip off to me buddy

I think their tech sounds sound and I would much rather play it than Natal for most games, but the way it was presented at E3 was terrible. Being in the audience I was less than enthused. This news gives me hope though as it does indeed make it sound promising and not like something they threw together (not literally, obviously, I know they've been working on it for a while).

Is it just me, or can Sony's tech potentially do EVERYTHING Natal can, plus the extra functionality of the controller?

Really not sure on the title anyway, why does the fact that it uses spu power mean it's less sucky?

@DemonEyes23

Like I've mentioned at another time, Nintendo didn't promise this from day one. Ubisoft boasted that the first Red Steel would be 1:1. Blame them. Nintendo never made any such claim.

Vibrating dildo controller confirmed!

Sony should just scrap this idea and focus on their game library.

Its not that far behind Nintendo, since Motion Plus isn't out yet. If it comes out a year after motion plus, then I'd say it came out pretty timely. But it has been demoed, while actual motion control gaming hasn't reached consumers yet...

I'd like to know how the Sony motion stuff looked sucky? It was the best motion-device at E3

Sony's main problem is they're like your grandparents, they see something popular on tv completely miss the point of why its popular and buy it for you 3 years later after the worlds moved on.

dude, seriously, the wii gets shit on as much as the PS3 so dont play the insulted fan boy card so pre maturely

I do not want motion controls from Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo in equal proportions. I mention Sony because they are the ones mentioned in this post ;)

the ps3 added it during a last minute panic mode in hopes of stealing wii thunder. It didnt work.

Wait, how was it 'sucky' to begin with? As I recall from the initial D-Toid coverage, the mood seems to be pretty positive about the way Sony is doing motion control.

Try again, gaming blogger.

I actually liked Sony's thing: it was responsive, probably more hardcore

than other motion controls, easy to use, and most of all, at least they had

SOMETHING. Microsoft's cocky little two minute video pissed me off

because they didn't have any tangible object yet and they stil tried to

show it to the world . That was weak.

Confirmed shovelware and minigame compilations for the PS3? ;P

@Mini-Boss - Yes cause we all know that it is extremely easy to implement a motion control system.

love how so many people on here are like 'oh so and so's motion controls are more hardcore'. very laughable. people just make shi* up along the way to suit make their opinion seem more favorable. motion controls are motion controls. and for people saying natal is not as good as sony's implementation. what the hell is the difference? plastic peripherals sell by the boatloads as proven by wii. has it occurred to anyone that natal's first and third party plastic periphals are going to sell even more than even wii. natal also has voice control, which may do away for the need of some button presses. in the end, there's probably going to be little difference in the 3. the only difference is motion controls will eventually be in the industry standard, with the classic controller becoming obsolete. but for those thinking that sony's and MS' road to the level of acceptability is going to be a smooth ride, think again. its apparent very early on, that it is going to be harder to convince this 'hardcore' consumer that this is the next step in evoltion for video game controls. how about these 'harcore' game devs? do they believe this is the future? if they do decide to support the device, and if their game doesn't sell, will they continue to support it? good questions that will be answered in the next 2-3 years to come.

"They give the example of using the wand as a sword and the controller as a shield, I give the example of using the wand as a Wii Remote and the controller as a Nunchuck."

Loved that comment.

I also enjoy the fact that PS3 and 360 owners have ripped the big N for motion control, yet as soon as their company creats a controller/glowing box thing that does something similar its suddenly ZOMGZ THIS LOOKS AWESOMEZ!! Face it, Nintendo had a great idea, caught a huge market, and now the other companies want to play catch up, simple as that.

Sony's e3 [prototype!] motion controller demo was better than xbox 360's Project Natal demo. Anyone else remember what the bottom of an avatar's shoe looks like?

WaBam!