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Well... technically maybe, via patches. But the big question is, would it add value?

If I was Sony I would decide if there was any high profile, signature titles already out that would benefit, even partially, from the motion controls, and focus on those.

I suspect though (without thinking deeply I admit) that they'll find such titles thin on the ground.

All in all delivering the controls with say 5 stellar titles using them in different ways (or one key title like Wii Sports with multiple sub-games) would likely be a better approach.

You could have sports, of course, but also a Gladiator game with shield and sword (or mace, etc).

I think a lesson for Sony this gen was don't rely on 3rd parties to deliver what you need to make the HW shine. Nintendo always support their HW with strong titles, MS seems to be learning this lesson and I hope to see Sony do so.

They have a good 1st and tight 2nd party development infrastructure, but they need to use it more aggressively - the controls IMHO must launch with at least 3 good titles built from the ground up to support them.

And they should look at something 'flagship' for the controls, like a Wii Sports, or how 'Milo' is fast becoming the media flagship for Natal.



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I think they should stop announcing things they won't be able to deliver.

Disappointment after hype is always worse than a good surprise...



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Avinash_Tyagi said:
I love how Sony and MS talk so much trash about Nintendo and then constantly fail to deliver

Yeah concidering that nintendo didn't fail with the original wii mote forcing them to bring in motion plus

 

OH SNAP !

 

 

Not only that but sonys wand is more precise, the camera adds voice recognition and facial recognition and it can do headtracking without infrareds.

And the complete wand set will likely have 2 analogues.

You were saying ?



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Staude said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
I love how Sony and MS talk so much trash about Nintendo and then constantly fail to deliver

Yeah concidering that nintendo didn't fail with the original wii mote forcing them to bring in motion plus

 

OH SNAP !

 

 

Not only that but sonys wand is more precise, the camera adds voice recognition and facial recognition and it can do headtracking without infrareds.

And the complete wand set will likely have 2 analogues.

You were saying ?

ROFl, actually Wii didn't fail with the original Wiimote *looks at 50 million sales*  The Wii motion plus was an update to counter anything that Sony and MS would bring out.  On Sony, if you really think that Sony's remote will actually deliver what's being promised, then I have a bridge to sell you, Sony has a history of over promising and under delivering, Oh Yeah!



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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Avinash_Tyagi said:
Staude said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
I love how Sony and MS talk so much trash about Nintendo and then constantly fail to deliver

Yeah concidering that nintendo didn't fail with the original wii mote forcing them to bring in motion plus

 

OH SNAP !

 

 

Not only that but sonys wand is more precise, the camera adds voice recognition and facial recognition and it can do headtracking without infrareds.

And the complete wand set will likely have 2 analogues.

You were saying ?

ROFl, actually Wii didn't fail with the original Wiimote *looks at 50 million sales*  The Wii motion plus was an update to counter anything that Sony and MS would bring out.  On Sony, if you really think that Sony's remote will actually deliver what's being promised, then I have a bridge to sell you, Sony has a history of over promising and under delivering, Oh Yeah!

Yea unlike nintendo who promised true motion tracking with the original wii mote only to gimp it so they could charge you for it later.

 

Not only will sony deliver what they promised. But they showed tech demos on stage so we know exacly what it can do.

I don't see how they couldn't deliver. It was a live tech demo. Didn't you watch the show ?



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Staude said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Staude said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
I love how Sony and MS talk so much trash about Nintendo and then constantly fail to deliver

Yeah concidering that nintendo didn't fail with the original wii mote forcing them to bring in motion plus

 

OH SNAP !

 

 

Not only that but sonys wand is more precise, the camera adds voice recognition and facial recognition and it can do headtracking without infrareds.

And the complete wand set will likely have 2 analogues.

You were saying ?

ROFl, actually Wii didn't fail with the original Wiimote *looks at 50 million sales*  The Wii motion plus was an update to counter anything that Sony and MS would bring out.  On Sony, if you really think that Sony's remote will actually deliver what's being promised, then I have a bridge to sell you, Sony has a history of over promising and under delivering, Oh Yeah!

Yea unlike nintendo who promised true motion tracking with the original wii mote only to gimp it so they could charge you for it later.

 

Not only will sony deliver what they promised. But they showed tech demos on stage so we know exacly what it can do.

I don't see how they couldn't deliver. It was a live tech demo. Didn't you watch the show ?

Yeah I watched, and even on the tech demo it looked glitchy, a lot of the things they were doing didn't work properly, and a tech demo is downscaled a lot, if they can't even get it to work well there its not going to work that well in actual games.  The purple wand is going to be a massive fail for Sony.

 



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Staude said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Staude said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
I love how Sony and MS talk so much trash about Nintendo and then constantly fail to deliver

Yeah concidering that nintendo didn't fail with the original wii mote forcing them to bring in motion plus

 

OH SNAP !

 

 

Not only that but sonys wand is more precise, the camera adds voice recognition and facial recognition and it can do headtracking without infrareds.

And the complete wand set will likely have 2 analogues.

You were saying ?

ROFl, actually Wii didn't fail with the original Wiimote *looks at 50 million sales*  The Wii motion plus was an update to counter anything that Sony and MS would bring out.  On Sony, if you really think that Sony's remote will actually deliver what's being promised, then I have a bridge to sell you, Sony has a history of over promising and under delivering, Oh Yeah!

Yea unlike nintendo who promised true motion tracking with the original wii mote only to gimp it so they could charge you for it later.

 

Not only will sony deliver what they promised. But they showed tech demos on stage so we know exacly what it can do.

I don't see how they couldn't deliver. It was a live tech demo. Didn't you watch the show ?

Yeah I watched, and even on the tech demo it looked glitchy, a lot of the things they were doing didn't work properly, and a tech demo is downscaled a lot, if they can't even get it to work well there its not going to work that well in actual games.  The purple wand is going to be a massive fail for Sony.

 

You're joking right ? he wrote his name in the air. Perfectly.

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Buttons confirmed, also analog sticks? This is shaping to become what never quite became true: the controller that could be split in two. Well, except that this is two controllers and never one, and this has MUCH improved motion control.



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Well Nintendo likes money, so I think they bring Wii motion ++, Wii fit +, Wii+,Wii+Ds+,Oh and 5 Marios each year.
I didin't see any flaws in Sonys motion capture controls but how to make tem useful in ALL games?Wii did it or at least tried and now look at what games sell on it and what won't.



 

 

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