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The only way to get that kind of independent turning and shooting would be to eliminate strafing or having strafing toggled to a button like the old days. You literally turn and walk with the stick, strafe by holding down a button and use the IR for shooting like a light gun game.
But that would end up as more cumbersome than the schemes we already have.
There are a couple of "pointer" based games on display, too. A game called "The Shoot," basically a rail shooter along the lines of Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles or Dead Space Extraction. Players move the PlayStation Move controller to guide the on-screen reticule around the playfield and shoot the incoming enemies. The "lag" I felt in the augmented reality demos was more apparent here because you didn't have your on-screen self guiding the reticule, and it wasn't matching up with any physical object. Plus, the game has its own calibration system and it was throwing off my aim – someone had set up the calibration for wide sweeping motions to guide the reticule just a few inches on-screen. Luckily a quick recalibration with the menu option, and a simple tap of the button on the controller and I was back in business.
I should note that The Shoot did get thrown out of whack in aiming, much like the same thing that happens in Wii Sports Resort's Sword Play. The game has a built-in recentering tool for when the reticule drifts, so it looks like the system may have a similar calibration issue that Wii MotionPlus does.
Sony really needed a better first-person shooter demonstration for the PlayStation Move and its uncreatively named Sub Controller (basically the Wii nunchuk ripoff). The company has a very early, and low-framerate version of SOCOM 4 here that does pointer tracking, similar to Resident Evil 4 on the Wii. It doesn't feel very sensitive in this demo, and that may be more because of SOCOM 4's early-in-development state.
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds
while the pessimist fears this is true.
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Bundling the new controllers is going to present a potential problem for Sony too. Do you offer two seperate SKU's - one with the traditional controller only, and one with the traditional and motion controls? If they do that, how much more do they have to raise the price? It will likely put the system back at the $400 which has already proven to be the kiss of death. It doesn't seem to matter how much value you pack into a console, at $400 it's just too much. Plus when you have two different controller sets to choose from it's likely to confuse a few people on what they need when they make the initial purchase.
So does Sony try another price cut to bring the prices down $50? They're really putting themselves in a tough spot if they are serious about getting the Move to be successful. Still not sure why they went through with it. It's like adding a 5th wheel to a really good car.
I'll say it right now. Piece of shit.
This makes little sense to me. There is drift with wii motionplus. In Red Steel 2 for instance the game invisibly re-centres the position whenever you point at the screen. But for IR based games where you are pointing at the screen/sensor bar you never have to recalibrate.
I can't imagine having controller drift in an IR based shooter. Online multiplayer would never be the same would it? Would you pause to re-calibrate and your character would temporarily be invunerable to damage? How would that work without people using it to cheat? And it would get really annoying even in single player too.
So we pose the question to you, good gamers: Can you tell the difference between the Wii Remote and the Playstion Move in these Lifestyle shots? The answer's at the bottom.
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Answer: Who gives a shit?
Update: the "game" you get for the $100 isn't a game.
I think it will be the best game movie ever.
That said I like the idea of motion controls, I dont like that they presented it as a Wii ripoff. Wii already has that market, this is just sad. I expected a line up of actual games. Hopefully E3 will show some, SOCOM is a nice start but it's SOCOM...
Just saw this on GAF
Of course its a ripoff, but how could they possibly NOT come out with a motion controller that seemed like a ripoff? Naturally the first company to do something are going to make the followers seem me-too ish.
I can't complain because this could be giving me what I wanted; A Wii-style controller on a modern console with good online, that will get more games using it that I actually want to play.
I'm liking Sony's ripoff a lot more than what Microsoft is doing with Natal. What Sony is doing will work...you're using a controller to play games. Natal though just makes no sense to me. How do I play a game by flailing my body around and not using a control pad of any kind?
Agreed.
Honestly my reaction is a little topsy turvey at the moment. From all the bravado I expected Sony to kick it from the get go with a largish selection of hardcore games, not just from them, but from third parties, ready to show here and now at its revealing. Instead it seems like a time warp back to when Nintendo showed off the Wii remote in October 2005 and then we heard backstage impressions of the demos that went on to become Wii Play.
And the whole games and presentation seems so poor, so much like the casual junk people try to avoid playing on Wii already. A party game, a sports game and then the minority hardcore game.
Top that off with a wholesale design rip, and lets not pretend here, in form and function this IS the Wii remote + nunchuk with better tech (wii remote is like 4 years old now) and it just comes across as directionless. Add on top a $100 price for not just controllers but a camera but a bunch of demos. It's just not really.... well with Natal I dont really have a problem because its fresh -even if I think the Move will have far better functionality- but the excecution here and follow through, from its wii like lifestyle shots, to wii like rhetoric.
We heard all this back in 2006, it feels like a time warp. IMO people should be more pumped for games like Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain, God of War 3 et all and upcoming games like Killzone 3, Infamous 2, Last Guardian etc.
At the moment there is nothing to be excited about with Move and I don't see it having a high value to Sony as a platform mover until they pack it in with every system and reduce the price of that bundle significantly. The casual market who already buys wii and one game is not going to go out and buy a more expensive system and one game.
And the hardcore who already love sony and their games, already have or were already planning to buy a PS3 anyway. IMO a price drop would be a lot more effective as platform mover than a new modular device introduced 4 years late into the lifecycle.
Some of the reports are a little weird, some games require two wands, others a wand and a sub controller? The motion sounds great, the IR we are gettting mixed reports on lag and unresponsiveness.
I will say this again, it is all Nintendo's fault for making a system that is old tech. FPS is a genre that has always been at the cutting edge of graphics, that has always been a big selling point of FPSs. Take that away and you already have a much harder sell. Online play is another major aspect, the Wii isn't exactly the best online system. The two most important selling points for a FPS the Wii fails at, plus it's userbase doesn't seem like the most shooter friendly crowd. Why would a developer waste their time making a quality FPS on the Wii?
The problem isn't that its a motion controller, the problem with it is that it copied every design concept and lesson that Nintendo made when it created the wii remote. Is has the same form and function. Same button layout, same back triggers, same separate parts, same wand shape, same frigging wrist cord.
There are reasons why the wii remote works in its physical form, that is why its designed in that way, from the shape being a virtual handle, to having the central A button and rear trigger, to separating the parts. Ignoring the tech, the actual design team that created the wii remote, their ideas have pretty much been wholesale copied.
What type of PS3 games would you like to play using motion?
If Natal allows for really intricate motion tracking, I'm talking tracking my fingers as they move and rotate objects, with both hands. That could be really, really cool. I would love to check out a boom blox or elebits style game with that kind of object interaction. If not then its eyetoy time.
Isn't that like being the thinnest guy in Fat Camp?