The term “motion control” is starting to make me feel slightly queasy, not least of all because the industry has flocked to it and considered it the future of gaming, when we’ve been doing nonsense like this since the mid-nineties. Electronic Arts has been more than happy to jump on the bandwagon, declaring that motion controls will take half the market.
EA CEO John Riccitiello believes that games will have an even split between waggle and traditional controls, at least stating that proper controllers won’t be obliterated by things like Natal: “My guess is that where this ends up is: motion controllers end up with half the market. And the other half still ends up with a more traditional game controller.
“I really don’t know if you’re going to want to play FIFA with a motion control device. First off, a 75-minute session would be frigging tiring, jumping all over the place. And frankly the traditional controller is pretty fun. I don’t know where, for example, shooters end up, but the camera and/or infra-red reception doesn’t give you the precision for a shooter that you get out of a traditional controller. While you can certainly look at Natal and say, yes I can have a gun and do this with it, I don’t know that that’s necessarily how I want to play.”
You and me both, John. Fat people like me don’t even want to stand up to pee, let alone play videogames.
