Well, it’s not! Yesterday at GDC Sony revealed their motion controller, the Playstation Move. There will be a bundle releasing later this year with the Move, Eye Toy, and a game for under $100. Nintendo, commence freak out.
This is pretty big news for Sony, and even bigger “oh shit” news for Nintendo. This could greatly cut into the revenue Nintendo gets for cashing in on the market of people who enjoy flailing their arms around with a controller in hand. The Wii is basically a PS2 with motion control. Soon enough the PS3 is going to have motion control. Nintendo needs to announce the Wii HD at either E3 or the Tokyo Game Show.
I can also see this being way bigger than Microsoft’s Natal. This has an analog stick and actual buttons, while Natal is completely controlled by body movements. First-Person shooters could be way more fast and precise with a controller like this. SOCOM 4 will supposedly utilize the Move.
I don’t know man, the kinetic dissonance is pretty big in the controller’s attempt to create 1 to 1 accuracy which is a pretty big factor in this whole thing considering that the controller is in the beta format right now and firmware/software tweaks are the only thing that can change at this point since the hardware is finished. The PS3 is still a hardcore gamer’s system with data supporting that families just are not buying it as much as the Wii. The Socom demo was cool but didn’t really show how the Move is going to be better than the all mighty PC mouse and the now dogmatic use of the dual analogue. We’ll see…