Tretton: PS3 Motion Controller Might Be Back-Compatible

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NJ5 said:

axumblade said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

antfromtashkent said:

pakidan101 said:
no I think he means games like God of War 3 and such...

"I think our [motion] controller can be used with every game that’s on the system now" <<

That's what we call a lie.  If they make updates for Super Rub a Dub and Calling All Cars that allow you to play with dual Wiimotes and a PS Eye, I'll eat my house.

Is there a way they could configure the motion controls to act like they were "analog controls?" I mainly ask because I know it seems farfetched but that's what I assumed they were going to try to do..

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.