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Chairman-Mao on 16 February 2010
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RVDondaPC said:
Showertea said:
Chairman-Mao said:
I agree. When all these stupid motion control gimmicks (a shot at all 3 consoles, not the wii) die and regular controllers live on; I'll be sitting on my couch having the last laugh.

But that's not gonna happen. Over 49% of consoles sold this generation have been the Wii, and frankly the Wii motion controls are pretty sub-par. Pretend Sony decides to abandon the Arc and go with the Dual Shock 4 next generation. Are the millions of gamers who learned to play on the Wiimote going to switch over to some weird button-and-stick thing? No, of course not. Meanwhile, Nintendo and whoever else wants to go along with the motion control revolution are going to get better and better motion controls, stealing away more and more marketshare from old control methodologies. 

 

Next generation, something similar to Natal and the Arc are going to be the bundled controllers with the NextBox and the PS4. The traditional controllers will be like the Wii Classic Controller (Sold separately, and only really used for backwards compatibility)

I disagree. Though motion controls will have a place in the video game industry they will not take over traditional button controls. Either both types of controllers will be bundled with the console or the motion ones will be sold separately. The wii may have almost 50% of the market share but that system still has games that used button based controlling while the HD 50% has no motion based controls. Not to mention the revenue stream for the button based controlled games are far greater than those of the motion controls. If you wanted to include the handhelds and PC gaming then it is not even close. If Sony or Microsoft made the mistake of making motion controls the lead control design for them it would be a huge opportunity for the competitor to come along and dominate the button based controller market which is virtually every popular game not published by Nintendo. 

Motion controls has it's place and it is certainly a reason why the Wii is so successful. But it being unique is also a huge reason why it is successful. It doesn't necessarily mean that if every console has motion controls it will become successful like it is with the Wii. 

I agree with this post.

Slightly over half of consoles sold this gen have been PS3 + 360 which are of course standard controller based, and as well I would bet most people who have a Wii have had a console with regular controllers in the past like the PS2, Gamecube or whatever. So I doubt that many people's first consoles are the Wii and would therefore not know how to use a regular controller. I see standard controllers being bundled with controllers as usual (except for Wii 2) and motion controllers sold separately like RVDondaPC said.