| The Ghost of RubangB said:
If the Move was actually in development for 9 years, then all the Sony PR quotes about how motion control is a stupid gimmick for senior citizens, and how Sony would never copy something stupid like that, IS THE REASON NINTENDO FANS ARE ANGRY. That is their hypocricy right there. They either hated motion controls for years, got owned by Nintendo, and changed their minds, or they were just lying for years while secretly developing the Move. Either way, from a PR point of view, it looks really bad. That's what people are mad about. This is the same reason people were mad at Sony when they said "rumble is last gen technology, motion controls are the future" for their original SIXAXIS controller, when it was obvious that the only reason they didn't use rumble was because Immersion (the owners of the rumble tech) were suing them. As soon as the lawsuit and its appeals were all over and settled, rumble was back in the new DualShock 3. Sony PR was caught insulting rumble for no good reason, then they brought rumble back. THEN, after calling motion the future, they called it a stupid gimmick for senior citizens. THEN they announced the Move. I'm sure that each time somebody at Sony insults a specific technology, somebody else at Sony is doing a facepalm because they're working on that exact product. It just makes the company look bad and unorganized, like nobody at Sony knows what anybody else at Sony is doing. |
Yes, the Sony PR is bad and a lot of people in the PR department or with representative positions don't know what their own company is cooking, but are Nintendo fans really so offended (those few who are) by some words ("sticks and stones ..") or just searching hard for a reason to hate Sony and found an understandable one here ? Kaz said "we don't want gimmicks", but Sony presented Eye of Judgment and Sixaxis in the same conference.. I'm not sure who else attacked the motion controls, probably Peter Dille, David Reeves and Jack Tretton, but to me Sony isn't Kaz/Dille/Reeves/Tretton corp, although all of those are high ranking representatives, to me Sony (Computer Entertainment) is about it's games and services.
I'm not offended by Iwata's "customers don't want online games" or Yamauchi's "people who like to play RPGs are depressed gamers, who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games.", although I'm an avid online and rpg gamer, and won't quote them into peoples faces whenever Nintendo announces a game with online-mode or an rpg to show "TEH HIPOCRICY", because I know that PR talk should be forgotten the next day and to bear grudges because of it is immature.
You can have a good laugh at PR talk any time, but turning into rage mode because of it is unsightly and that's why I think it's not the _real_ reason for (some) Nintendo fans to be against the move.
