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RVDondaPC on 16 February 2010
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Showertea said:
RVDondaPC said:

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. 

All I can give is my personal input: After playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, it seriously hurt to go back to playing them with two dumb little sticks and some buttons. Motion controls can only get better, and when they do, they're gonna steal more and more franchises and genres from buttons.

Yeah, just being motion controlled doesn't mean that the systems are going to sell like the Wii, but do you really see the PS4, with the Dual Shock 4 as it's main controller, being taken seriously when up against next-gen motion control technology? And developing and bundling both with the system drives up costs. 

Remember, Nintendo invented the D-pad, and the control scheme used by previous consoles (the joystick) was dead within a generation. Two generations later, the N64 was the first system with an analog stick, and by the end of that generation the Playstation added the original Dualshock, adopting analog stick technology which became the primary control scheme for all consoles from that point on. Two generations after that, the Wii introduced motion controls, and now Sony and Microsoft are going to launch their own motion controllers this christmas. 

Sorry, bro, but motion control's already won. No eighth generation console is going to be bundled with a controller without built-in motion control.

Well MS's motion control tech doesn't use a controller and Sony has already had motion control with it's standard controller since the launch of the PS3 so... I don't see what you're barking about. All I'm saying is that motion controls wont replace the need for many buttons and analog sticks. It may be added, bundled, or hybrided, or whatever creative thing they come up with but to think it will just make the traditional control mechanics of using your fingers become secondary you will be mistaken.