Smidlee on 08 April 2008
| superchunk said: I can see this happening. however, I would think it unwise on MS's part. For one just because they have this controller doesn't mean 3rd parties who are building Wii-specific games will port it to the 360 to use it. After all how much of an attach rate will this peripheral actually get? 10% max, maybe. I have always maintained that pretty soon Wii will be getting king's share of game development and that any multiplatform games would be Wii designed and then ported to ps360. What MS is betting on is when this happens, it will only be Wii/360 since PS3 doesn't have a comparable controller. (which also shows they think I'm right, leo-j) Basically this is Malstrom's ideas coming to fruitrition. MS and Sony have realized they are losing/lost the lower tiers in video games. Sony doesn't care and will move upstream, just like they did with their electronics when China/Korea pummeled their products. MS on the other hand will try to fight it out with Nintendo. However, MS isn't realizing that the fight is already over and to push this out with all the marketing and a few craptacular games will just increase their losses. |
Or it simply so a 3rd party like EA with Madden football give players the choice if they want motion controls when playing the game on 360. Since EA develops the wii version for the motion controls it wouldn't take much effort to give 360 fans the same option if the gamer choses. I believe the greatest fear some have is what happens if 360 takes away it's motion control advantage of the wii while at the same time 360 can run games like Madden in HD.
Now I personally doesn't really care to play Madden with motion controls.
If motion controls and IR hand tracking is really the future of gaming ( in most cases I hope not) then surely Mircosoft is making a smart move.
