Platform warz time. Chatting to VGD at a preview event last week, Red Steel 2’s Creative Director Jason Vandenberghe has expressed his belief that the game would function swimmingly on Sony’s motion control wand, but is less suited to Microsoft’s more advanced Project Natal tech. Or at least, to what he knows of it.

“I think it could work fantastically with the Sony wand,” he said, when asked whether the stabby-shooty action fest had a future beyond the Wii, but went on: “With this kind of game you need a thumbstick, that’s the only real constraint. For walking around at least, I haven’t seen a solution.

“Microsoft may come forward and show me something I haven’t seen before, which makes me understand how you can play a first-person action game like this that requires this intense finesse and accuracy in your motion, and not have a controller in your hand of some kind.

“But I think we need to have a thumbstick. I think this is probably a more natural fit for the Sony side of things right now, but I don’t think Microsoft is showing all of its cards right now either.

“And that’s not an insider release – I don’t know. I just don’t buy it. There’s more coming, there has to be more. And you know what, I would love to play these games.”

Specifically, Vandenberghe wouldn’t mind getting his hands on an on-rails slasher.

“I would also, for the record, love to play an on-rails first-person swordfighting game with Natal. Love to! House of the Dead with a sword? Sounds fantastic to me.”

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Red steel collection for PS3 wand confirmed.

I'll laugh if it does get ported.

would be funny if they did a red steel on rails slasher for the HD twins, it flops then is proceeded to be ignored in the same sentence as dead space extraction is mentioned... actually that would be more of annoying

Red Steel: Extraction confirmed for PS3 and 360 in 2011.

Wouldn't mind the port if they spend time with it and give it some decent graphics

I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of Wii ports coming to the PS3, and maybe 360 later this year. I don't know if they will make a HD version of Red Steel if they can't make it for both PS3 and 360 though.

Yeah, I can see this happening easily. Would be much improved by a nunchuk peripheral though.

lol, sounds about right

Maybe not Red Steel 2, but a future game sure. Retro helped Ubisoft make this one, and I'm sure Nintendo would fight to have it stay Nintendo exclusive.

More advanced Natal tech, can't handle the complexity that the Playstation motion controls can. Something about that sentence is not sounding right. Well in any case, good job Microsoft. You have lead the sheep very well on this one.