@JQM78
It's what should have been done with the Wii games, but alas...


@phantomile
The controller does look rather dildo-tastic.

If it does what it's meant to do, then great. I just hope Okamiden has something to do with this tech...hint, hint, Capcom...

Yeah, Wii should have done it, but I think they missed the bus on it, it's a no-brainer, Star wars fans would go nuts over it, especially if it's done well......anyone else agree?

This is looking pretty damn cool. As far as motion tech goes this is definitely looking to be way more accurate and responsive than the Wii. It's like motion plus x 1000.

sounds cool,
i need a ps3 >.>

Honestly, I was expecting a stick with a pretty colored light from the demo. I'm actually a little surprised that there's tilt sensing.

"Wow, how lame sony, I always feel bad for bashing you guys, but you suck now. Jesus christ, all you do is rip off nintendo.

Interactive games that we haven't seen before?! hahaha, good one."

/s, I hope?

The more I see of the DualWand (that's what I'm calling it), the more I wish Trauma Team was on the PS3

unangbangkay: trauma center: save kratos's victims edition? that game would be impossibly hard!

I'm amazed this didn't get the bigger reaction at E3. Maybe I'm fooled, but this seems like the first version of this technology that will actually deliver on the promise of motion control rather than just show a smiling family in Ikea playing a hypothetical game.

Amazed it didn't? haha, it didn't get attention, because it has been done before...haha, ever heard of a wii? hahaha, surely this remote styled motion gaming controller has never been done before!haha, never by Nintendo!

Good job Sony! keep ripping off stuff!

Yes, because the Wii mote sure can't make sounds or even rumble. haha, you guys keep giving proof that sony is doing nothing original like they say they are.

@ Artson - Nintendo games are by far the best motion sensing games on the Wii. All the other developers simply either cannot do motion controls as well or choose not to put the necesary effort into making motion controls good.

Microsoft and Sony's tech may very well be carried by first party alone.

im sure women will love the vibrate feature, makes this much easier to use as a vibrator than the ps3 controller.

So far, I think that Sony's "wand" looks like the best motion control option. I'm still not impressed with the wiimote, even after the motion plus (now I actually have to stand up to golf). And I have no space for Natal in my apartment. It looks like sony is right in that middle space where I can use it and hopefully appreciate it when used in games.

Or maybe it will just become another unused hunk of plastic in my living room. I'm fine with that option too.

This thing may be the Wiimote of the future it could be better, more percise and have more quality than the wii's line up of motion games. It will certainly not be a the "Wii-killer" people are saying it will be because I doubt that people are going to stop playing the wii just because Sony has a motion controller too.

It could however lead some more break throughs with motion control but that's unlikely considering how we're nearing the end of this generation and all games pre-wand are not going to be used with it. The third party developers will certainly now look at the new software and create some cheap, rushed games for a quick buck but if Sony can convince them that they can't do that on their console those will fail.

The best route of thinking for these things is to just hope it works but not to hope it will cause the PS3 or the other consoles to fail because that's their fight not ours. We just want to see some quality games.

h5e5l5l5o5: Hey troll, can the Wii remote be sighted accurately with any amount of calibration? Can it determine absolute position in 3D space? Can it even perform "1-to-1" motion tracking without constant recalibration?

That's what I thought, and why I LOVE what Sony is doing. Maybe it won't turn out all that great (and it certainly looks ridiculous, which I'm enjoying) but they're definitely making the right decisions in the direction they're taking with motion controls. Microsoft has some neat tech but I don't see any gameplay potential there, but they'll probably be using some sort of "wand" by the time they launch anyway, even if it's only a prop to give the gameplay some context and a couple of buttons.

Nintendo had a chance to do something really amazing with Wii and they blew it mostly by cutting corners that they didn't have to in order to shave a couple of quarters off the price of something they were selling at a huge profit from the get go. It would have cost PENNIES to include more accurate accelerometers even when they launched the Wii.

It would been a similar price to improve the pointer so that it was actually accurate, the original prototype they showed off featured two "sensor bars" (those actually are just lights since you're stupid enough that you likely don't know) for either the sides or top and bottom of the screen. But this was likely dropped because Nintendo stupidly put the camera IN THE CONTROLLER where it is much less likely to have a clear view of both sides of a television than a camera on the television would to have a clear view of a controller anywhere in the room it is facing.

And don't even get me started on the internal storage, which has crippled games on Wii even further. For what? Saving a buck or two a system? It's pathetic and shows a short-sighted agenda. Which is maybe what Nintendo wants, but they're not really in the business of making games for gamers anymore so I don't see why any of us should care.

Now I've got to go decide if I'll hook the stupid thing up to play this Metroid Trilogy I bought or if I'll just leave it in shrink wrap because I can't stand plugging the system in.

So in the six-seven years that it has taken Sony to develop this tech, Nintendo managed to create, market, and highly profit from a money-printing, inexpensive, audience-expanding console that has gotten even your grandma to play videogames.

I think Sony's and Microsoft's solutions to motion tracking will probably be excellent and will fix some of the Wiimote's shortcomings, but their tech won't impress me until I see some games with innovative motion-based gameplay. The Wii has been out for a while now and only a fraction of its games really pull off the motion control integration without it feeling forced, gimmicky, or unnecessary.

The Wiimote hasn't exactly failed, but there's so much lacking on the Wii. I love my Wii but it's been stone cold ever since I finished Twilight Princess. All those big numbers from the Wii sales really show me is that Nintendo gets to stay in business for another round, and yay I love Nintendo games so it makes me happy to see that.

As for Natal/ps3wand... Am I the ONLY person who sees that Natal is just a rip off of the playstation eye?! Everyone keeps talking about "hands-free" and how revolutionary it is but wtf. So it's a better eye-toy. None of this crap will replace real controllers anyways, they're all just novelties for the casual and obsessed gamers.