I suppose you're talking about things like aiming. If you have looked at PC games controlled with the Wiimote (some people have done hacks for that), the big problem is that PC games are made so that turning the mouse affects both aiming and movement, with no bounding box like in Wii FPS games. Not to mention problems like turn speed, which aren't configurable in many games.

Even if it's technically possible, it wouldn't work well.

If they patched the games it could work of course, but I highly doubt they would do that for many games.

In the PS3 case since the conversion from wand position/angle to analog stick input would be made at system level, you could have settings for the dead zone/bounding box and angle sensitivity right in the system menu affecting the wand->virtual analog conversion.

In the end playing a legacy FPS like this would be like playing, say, the Conduit on Wii setting a very very small bounding box. Which I'm not really sure is any good a setting... might be awkward, indeed.

A mouse is a very different device, though, as it basically detects movements along two coordinates, not absolute values. Emulating an analog stick with a wand would be much more natural because both provide two coordinates in a limited range.

In the PS3 case since the conversion from wand position/angle to analog stick input would be made at system level, you could have settings for the dead zone/bounding box and angle sensitivity right in the system menu affecting the wand->virtual analog conversion. This would solve the turning speed problem.

In the end playing a legacy FPS like this would be like playing, say, the Conduit on Wii setting a very very small bounding box. Which I'm not really sure is any good a setting when it comes to actual gameplay... might be awkward, indeed.

@WereKitten: But without a patch, how would you convince the game to look in one direction and shoot in another? It's just not possible without hacking or patching the game.

In the Wii version of quake (homebrew) the code had to get changed to allow the weapon to point anywhere, as opposed to the PC/console versions where the gun is always pointing to the center of the screen.

Oh yea.  I they can do that i would love to see that in some PS3 FPS.

@NJ5

You wouldn't. The wand would simply emulate the right analog stick.
That's why I compared it to having a tiny bounding box in a Wii game: then the aiming and line of sight tend to stay aligned, like in PC games.

@WereKitten: That's what I meant in my post as well. I guess I read the wrong reply (there are two posts from you).

And yeah, it seems too awkward to use motion controls that way.

Probably worse than using an analog, yes. But on the other hand I played Gears and Dead Space on the PC with a mouse, and that was an awkward mouse->analog mapping too, and still after a while you got used to it.

Maybe after the Conduit comes out with its customizable bounding box, it can be tested - for fun and science.

Yah - that's true, so hopefully they're alredy working through some title ideas with certain developers.

I call BS. This wouldn't be the first time Sony has flat out lied.