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Jesus Christ man

If the PC, 360, and PS3 all take motion controls seriously gaming will be ruined.



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Rock_on_2008 said:

I have seen people make up rumours about motion controller for both the PS3 and XBox 360. Well I will create this thread in response. Motion Controller for PC. Yeah everyone wants to steal Nintendo Wii's motion control and bring out game that interact with it for a quick cash.

Motion control = quick cash in on games's that take less than 6 months to produce and get on the shelf.

Source there is none its just a thread in response to the cheap shots at the PS3 and 360 being accused of pirating the Nintendo Wii's motion control.


As salamanizer has shown, the PC had motion controls way before consoles courtesy of Microsoft. The same Microsoft said to be copying Nintendo with the motion control idea. o_O



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Goddbless said:
Rock_on_2008 said:

I have seen people make up rumours about motion controller for both the PS3 and XBox 360. Well I will create this thread in response. Motion Controller for PC. Yeah everyone wants to steal Nintendo Wii's motion control and bring out game that interact with it for a quick cash.

Motion control = quick cash in on games's that take less than 6 months to produce and get on the shelf.

Source there is none its just a thread in response to the cheap shots at the PS3 and 360 being accused of pirating the Nintendo Wii's motion control.


As salamanizer has shown, the PC had motion controls way before consoles courtesy of Microsoft. The same Microsoft said to be copying Nintendo with the motion control idea. o_O


People never seem to understand Nintendo's withered technology doctrine. Yes, motion control had been around for years. So did head sensing. What Nintendo did was implement it in a new and effective way. After all, what good is a motion contorller or PC by S when you have jack all to use it with and it doesn't work very well to boot (see also: power glove). The same thing happened with the analog stick--it had existed before as a piece of technology, it just hadnt been implemented effectively in console controller design.

The issue is that leap--using it effectively--is as much of a leap as creating it in the first place. The reason epople complain about MS and Sony copying Nintendo is that they ignore a technology until it becomes popular and then hastily co-opt it. It takes a lot more vision to use withered technology and make it popular than it does to implement popular technology.



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