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Mr.Ashtear on 11 March 2012

They will never release Sorcery :(



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Chark on 11 March 2012

Definitely trolling. The move just sold over 10 million. There might not be that many games that support compared to the Wii, which is practically all, but there are still a bunch of great ones, RE5, Killzone 3, Resistance 3, No More Heroes, Deadspace Extraction, Heavy Rain, LittleBigPlanet 2, infamous 2, and a bunch of others. I know that it's an optional controller for most games, but I see that as a good thing. It's also a better controller than the wiimote, even plus. The thing that will bolster the moves capabilities will be a better camera, probably kinect style, with a far greater range of motion. Mix those technologies together and you'll have awesome peripheral recognition.



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Argh_College on 11 March 2012
pezus said:
Argh_College said:
Sony doesnt support Move, there´s some exclusives coming to it but compared to Kinect it gets absolutely destroyd in both quantity and quality.

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

Some people having 10 controllers? Are you out of your mind? What's to stop people getting 5 kinects then?

Also, Kinect isn't gonna go past 25m this year, 20-22m is more likely.

Shipments wise it will... Sales i dont know. People can buy loads of Move Controlers for 19euros here, my friends with Move have 3.



happydolphin on 11 March 2012
VGKing said:
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.

His point, since you have difficulty making sense of what you're reading, I highlighted in bold. That's almost 60-70% the success of what you had preported. Stop downplaying the relevance of his reply.



rutea7 on 11 March 2012
Mr.Ashtear said:

They will never release Sorcery :(


http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/03/07/get-under-the-spell-of-sorcery-from-23-may/

@OP - misleading title is misleading, all they said is that they need to give it better support.



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teigaga on 11 March 2012
thehusbo said:
They never actually use the word 'failure'. 10million shipped units is hardly a failure anyway. As they say, it's just suffered from a lack of killer games and support.


From the eye of this consumer, it is a failure. I got it for christmas back in 2010 and haven't had one worth while experience on it. Complete waste of money, it doesn't have anything to satisfy even the casual gamer. I would say its not too late to turn it around, but sony will have to do this through extensive 1st party support exclusive to move, theres no way any 3rd party teams are going anywhere near it. Sorcery could actual be the  beginning of the peripherals active life.



Byclop on 11 March 2012

theres very few games move compatible, its a failure for the gamers but ITS NOT SALES WISE



DirtyP2002 on 11 March 2012
VGKing said:
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.


5-6 million users is not a success for something "that changes everything" (Slogan made by Sony). Who the hell makes multimillion USD games for a userbase of 5-6 maybe 7 million? I can't believe you call Move a success, really.

 



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Squilliam on 11 March 2012

It doesn't help with (excluding Wii Play and Wii Sports) the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th best selling Wii titles. It wasn't a particularly good copy IMO because it matched the features but not as much the functions of the Wii remote.

Note: I excluded Wii Sports as a pack in title and Wii Play as a $10 throwaway title.



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Spedfrom on 11 March 2012

Why aren't trolls and baiters immediately banned anymore?

"Failure" is the OP's own wording. Sony's representative said they should have done a better job, which doesn't automatically equate to "failure" and it has already been said, it isn't, especially when it's sold on par with the Eye Toy on a much stronger previous console.