My impressions of the Move controller so far

[greenmedic88]

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Have you tried using it in the menus?  Hold the controller perfectly straight but move it left to right, nothing will happen on screen till you tilt the controller.  For the game itself you center it pick up blocks which it uses the light ball to help triangulate position but the laser your on screen controller shoots out is all gyro based, and it still takes that unneeded twist to point at the edges. 

It doesn't do this for games like Sports Champions so its not the controller, its the game itself, and both me and my friend had the same experience both at his house and mine.

Virtually all menus are 2D based. They only need track in the X,Y axis so the ball isn't even needed. So yes, these can be done 100% using the gyro.

Based on what I can tell, I believe you're also right about the "aiming laser" which can be aimed from a single fixed point by simply changing the angle at which the controller is pointing (with the ball as the pivot point, remaining at a fixed position and therefore incapable of providing any "movement" data). 

From my experience, Tumble is one of the wonkiest games for Move, but it is also one of the only games to make such extensive use of ball tracking, particularly for Z axis movement.

I think part of the confusion seems to be that a lot of people instinctively think the ball is doing the aiming as if it were firing a beam of light at the screen/camera when the aiming is typically done entirely with the gyro.