| Kantor said: 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. |
Consoles weren't the original gaming standard.
And yes, you actually can jump with the Wiimote - it's used for morph ball jumps in the Metroid Prime games, for example. The more you know, right?
I don't think all the consoles will implement motion, but Nintendo will.
And I don't own a PS3 right now, do I?
