My impressions of the Move controller so far

[MaxwellGT2000]

greenmedic88 said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Pointer controls, this is by far my biggest complaint, this is from the perspective of someone who has used the Wiis pointer for years and that pointer is so intuitive and just really tight so going to this is like night and day.  On Move it's based on the gyroscope inside the controller, with Tumble in particular you have to turn your wrist/controller 90 degrees left or right to point at the edges of the screen, making a full 180 degrees of range, on Sports Champions its less but still way too wide of range and could be tightened up so much.  One particular issue when the controller did get off center after a LOT of motion the pointer was also off with it because it is gyro based.

No. Move's pointer functionality is achieved by the PS Eye tracking the light sphere on the controller. If you're having problems with this it may be because there is another light source interfering.

Actually, it's both.

If you use the controller when a game isn't launched (in the XMB for instance) the light is off. If it isn't immediately apparent what that means, the controller is using the gyro/accelerometer to translate your up/down and left/right motions to move the media bar.

Unplug your camera in the XMB and you can still use the Move controller to navigate menus (hold down the trigger and tilt the controller in the direction you want it to scroll).

Once you launch a game and the light turns on, and when the camera is plugged in (the light won't turn on if it isn't) the camera is now tracking the lit ball.

But if it only used the ball light to track motion, it wouldn't be able to determine the vector running along the axis from the center of the base of the controller to the tip of the ball. In simpler terms, a ball doesn't indicate what direction it's pointed in. It needs the gyro to provide orientation axis.

Hrm after further testing since Okey made me think of it, I tried tumble again, same result, on sports champions however I couldn't do the thing I did with Tumble which was hold the controller completely flat and just move the controller right to left without turning it, on sports champions it actually did track the light ball, in Tumble it simply does not.

So I somewhat change my verdict there which is I'm really pissed if they go the Tumble route rather than the Sports Champions route, my big reason for picking up Move was some FPS action with the nice Wii like controls since I'm a big CoD Wii player, anyway when I saw how Tumble controlled I was rather upset cause that destroyed my hopes of precise controls, but if they go the Sports Champions route but a little tighter it'd be nice.

So on that it depends on the software and that worries me since there is a lack of a standard, the Wii has its pointer and thats just what it is, I hope no one is foolish enough to do what Tumble did but I fear there will be more... 

Still it will be my biggest complaint since I want it to be tighter and there to become a standard to do it in a smart fashion.