So this new motion controller....thoughts?

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pakidan101 said:
It all honesty, it looked a little bit better than Natal when compared to the gaming front but fails in comparison to the technology front.


In essence, it is WM+ > PS motion controls > Natal in gaming relevance and here is why. Natal is the brand new tech and it is becoming the darling of the media blogs, but for all the wrong reason. As always, humanity seeks to dethrone leaders and heroes very quickly and everybody has jumped on the bandwagon in saying this will officially dethrone the Wii, but they don't understand the actual technology.

As much as I love new technology, Project Natal - when it comes to gaming - is no more than a glorified advanced Eye Toy. Whereas the Eye Toy on its own registers the upper body, this will register the whole body. As cool as that sounds, though, the fact that there are no buttons at all limits the possibilities of most traditional games. I can see an RTS being possible, but other than that no other types of games other than mini games are possible. The same thing could be said about the PS motion controllers. Though they have a Wii-mote look-a-like, the fact that there were no buttons and no analog stick limits the possibilities of more traditional games.


And that is what is separating MS and Sony's attempts for motion controls when comparing to Nintendo. MS and Sony are trying to SEPARATE the "casuals" and the "hardcore" gaming types. That is why the these motion controls seem laughable in the eyes of some Wii owners. The reason why Nintendo is successful is that not only do they make games that are accessible to casuals but to the more traditional gamers as well. The controller input tries to tie in everyone together, and not just separate the two groups from each other into ridiculous categories and ways of gaming.


MS and Sony are just copying without actually realizing why Nintendo is making things work...

The SONY wands did have buttons just to clarify.  I think at the very least SONY and Nintendo solutions have parity with the seeming 1:1 motion control, though I think SONY has it better with additonal motion capture IE body movement independent of the controller movement.

I'm not so sure that SONY and MS are _trying_ to seperate the two types of gamers, I think its a natural division.  Nintendo may be trying to reach out to the traditional gamer but so far they have not been doing well.  I am a traditional gamer and thus far even after E3 I will only be adding 2 or 3 games to my Wii library whereas SONY alone guaranteed has me buying 6 or 7 games.