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happydolphin on 11 March 2012

A bit of a failure, but at least they are not throwing the baby with the bathwater. They should go WiiU and make their PS4 backwards compatible with it, and when they have the money, try to experiment again in few titles, but with a serious move effort.



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TruckOSaurus on 11 March 2012
VGKing said:
Slimebeast said:

Yes it's clearly a failure but that's only good for core gamers. Hopefully Sony will abandon it soon. I don't think PS4 will have any motion control support.


Nope. It's already sold about the same as the Eyetoy and that was not a failure either.

When you get 10million+ people to buy an add-on, it can be considered a success.
BTW, there are still many years left on the PS3 and Move can keep selling with better support and marketing.

The 10 million figure includes the Navigator sales so there's not 10 million people who bought Move. Probably something closer to 6-7 million people, still not a failure though.



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Slimebeast on 11 March 2012
VGKing said:
Slimebeast said:
VGKing said:
Slimebeast said:

Yes it's clearly a failure but that's only good for core gamers. Hopefully Sony will abandon it soon. I don't think PS4 will have any motion control support.


Nope. It's already sold about the same as the Eyetoy and that was not a failure either.

When you get 10million+ people to buy an add-on, it can be considered a success.
BTW, there are still many years left on the PS3 and Move can keep selling with better support and marketing.

10 mill is nothing to laugh about (did Eye Toy really sold that much?) but honestly, how significant is Move? How big of a mindshare does it have among gamers? Move is a fringe thing. It alwats felt forced and awkward and now whenever I see Move ads on PSN I get the feeling it's on lifesupport and will be all but disappeared next gen. 


Move was never meant to be shoved down our throats.
It is an add-on and it got great support for what it is, an add-on.(You want failure? Look a uDraw)

Kinect sold much more and has better support because MS is pushing it as a new platform, not just an add-on. 

When you describe it like that I completely agree with you.



Jay520 on 11 March 2012

1.) You included no link in the OP
2.) Sony never said anything synonymous with 'failure'
3.) This is a duplicate thread. See the link below

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=141001



JesseDeya on 11 March 2012

Obvious troll thread is troll.

As others have said, Move is an optional add-on. For those that enjoy it, it offers a lot and has been reasonably well supported - though it could afford to have even more support of course.

As someone with both Kinect and Move, I can say that Move appeals to me far more. I have dozens of games that support Move and only two for Kinect, mostly because I'm not 5-12 years old.

This post has been moderated ~ Barozi

Edit from JesseDeya: Moderated? But not a single word was changed. I'm confused.



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SnakeDrake on 11 March 2012

The move last big push was when resistances 3 was released. Sony needs killer ads like that sorcery game or that heavily rain dev's new game.



 

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VGKing on 11 March 2012
TruckOSaurus said:
VGKing said:
Slimebeast said:

Yes it's clearly a failure but that's only good for core gamers. Hopefully Sony will abandon it soon. I don't think PS4 will have any motion control support.


Nope. It's already sold about the same as the Eyetoy and that was not a failure either.

When you get 10million+ people to buy an add-on, it can be considered a success.
BTW, there are still many years left on the PS3 and Move can keep selling with better support and marketing.

The 10 million figure includes the Navigator sales so there's not 10 million people who bought Move. Probably something closer to 6-7 million people, still not a failure though.

Your point? I myself have had 2 PS3s.(1 of them got YLOD). Don't even get me started on the Xbox 360 and RROD.
We don't need to get so technical. Stop downplaying the Moves success.



dr3b on 11 March 2012

Personally I am glad it wasn't a great success, as that would have most likely meant a greater motion control presence in the PS4 and I never wanted that. I like traditional controls for most games and motion as an option for others which is where it is now with Sony.



Argh_College on 11 March 2012

Sony doesnt support Move, there´s some exclusives coming to it but compared to Kinect it gets absolutely destroyed in both quantity and quality.

i dont blame them, Kinect is gonna past 25M when this years endsm if they price drop probably 28M. Move will be like at 13M with some people having 10 controllers and others 5. so probably Move userbase is around 3M MAX.

Ps4 needs its own Kinect or something different, Sony never has their own ideas so i dont expect any revolution, they will just copy/paste Ninty and Microsoft again.



TruckOSaurus on 11 March 2012
VGKing said:
TruckOSaurus said:

The 10 million figure includes the Navigator sales so there's not 10 million people who bought Move. Probably something closer to 6-7 million people, still not a failure though.

Your point? I myself have had 2 PS3s.(1 of them got YLOD). Don't even get me started on the Xbox 360 and RROD.
We don't need to get so technical. Stop downplaying the Moves success.

My point is that your 10 millions people figure was wrong. Stop "upplaying" the Move's success.



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