Worried that the PS3 will now be home to crap ports and endless shovelware thanks to the arrival of PlayStation Wiimote? Don’t worry, Sony is too! The company has pledged to avoid a launch full of garbage like Carnival Games, stating that shovelware is a concern.
“It’s obviously a concern of ours as well,” assures Worldwide Studios VP Scott Rohde. “But, we’ve taken advantage of the fact that it is a PS3. Sports Champions, for example, has been in development for a while. We’re not announcing it yet, but I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the scope that’s offered in that title.
“These are not just one-off, ‘hey, play table tennis for fun.’ There’s an overall objective that crosses over all the different events in that title, and there’s a lot of long-term play value in there.”
We shall see. Frankly, I think I’d prefer Move to be used for gimmicks rather than shoehorned into existing franchises that would work better on traditional controls, but I’m hoping Sony proves me wrong. Move leaves me feeling very concerned, not least because I see Sony either appealing to a market that Nintendo’s already cornered, or a market that bought a PS3 because it didn’t want motion control.
Interview: Sony’s Scott Rohde on PlayStation Move [Joystiq]
