If consoles go motion control standard next-gen, why are you going PC?

[Kantor]

Khuutra said:

Kantor said:
Motion Control will never become universal. Not until you can do everything with motion controls that you can with a standard controller.

As for people threatening to defect to PC gaming, you can still sit in a chair and play a PC game. You can even connect your PC to your TV, and use a gamepad while sitting on the couch. Which basically turns it into a console.

Just like gamepads would never become standard over Mouse and Keyboard? Come on.

And, Onyxmeth:

If everything goes motion control next gen, I'm going PC because I'll have a Nintendo system that gets all the multiplats I crave anyway, so I don't need to afford two consoles! ....I hope

Mouse and keyboard was never standard for consoles. It went from joystick + button, to gamepad, to controller + motion. While the Wii's motion control does open up new possibilities, it is also a limitation: there are fewer inputs, and you can't exactly assign a motion to something a button should do. Well, you can, but it becomes a mess. Motion control is good when it's meaningful. Such as in Wii Sports, any FPS, and a swordfighting game. You can't, in an RPG, for example, say "Waggle to jump", can you?

All three consoles next gen will probably implement motion control, alongside the traditional gamepad (or something similar), because it's innovation without alienation, and new possibilities without the limits.

And you know you can't survive without Team ICO games and GoW.