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Goddbless on 09 July 2008

Isn't that a PC controller. I could've swore I saw that like last year or so....



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Grampy on 09 July 2008

According to good old Kotaku, the rumor is Microsoft will buy the controller from Motus. In other words, spend money in leu of actually innovating anything, which is after all, the Microsoft way.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/04/microsoft_rare_gyration_talk_360_wii_remote_rumors-2.html

Back in April many others were spouting the same rumor. Google Motus + Microsoft and you can have all the speculation your heart could desire. But yes, apparently it was originally developed by Motus for the PC.



bardicverse on 09 July 2008

here try this.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=wii&s2=nintendo&OS=wii+AND+nintendo&RS=wii+AND+nintendo



bardicverse on 09 July 2008

@ Goddbless - LMAO at the vid in your sig



SirRockHardly on 09 July 2008
Grampy said:

According to good old Kotaku, the rumor is Microsoft will buy the controller from Motus. In other words, spend money in leu of actually innovating anything, which is after all, the Microsoft way.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/04/microsoft_rare_gyration_talk_360_wii_remote_rumors-2.html

Back in April many others were spouting the same rumor. Google Motus + Microsoft and you can have all the speculation your heart could desire. But yes, apparently it was originally developed by Motus for the PC.

 

Which is after all, all coorporation's way.



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megaman79 on 09 July 2008

Ok upload / copy paste / whatever. Im running win 2000 and this quicktime aint playin.



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Strategyking92 on 09 July 2008
.:Dark Prince:. said:
@Bleu

Hmmm, no.

Also, the pic is terribly old.

 

hahahahaha!

Nobody else knew that before YOU.



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DTG on 09 July 2008
obieslut said:
What i am thinking now is the thing most people like about the Wii is the motion controller, but is this going to take from the Wii now or has the Wii got to many "good" games that use this for the newton to be of any consequence to the Wii

 

Lol, good games? What good games that use motion controls extensively?

 



dallas on 09 July 2008

Of course the big question is whether this controller will be a big thing or not.....I have some doubts, sorry. For any add-on to be effective, it is going to have to have a lot of support. MS is basically going to have to pay companies to make good games for this add-on and they are going to have to do this more than once to get the ball rolling or else this will be another powerglove, sixaxis, eyetoy, etc.

MS is also going to have to do some things w/ development.....it might even have to make a lot of the games that use this 1st party, as they are going to have to basically copy nintendo's "feel" for games, i.e. make everything cartoony/fun/ casual.

In the end, the biggest plus about this controller and MS itself is that the company is loaaaaaaaddddddddeeeeedddddd. they can and really, have been simply pouring money into marketing, operations (refurbs), etc to a bit of a higher degree than Sony or Ninty in order to make the sacrifices that they need to make their business grow. I'm not saying that this will or won't work, but if it will all of these things : move to casual strategy, pouring out some $$$ like no tomorow for development, and they hopefully haven't made a POS controller like a lot of the Xbots are silently hoping that they aren't.



SirRockHardly on 09 July 2008
dallas said:
Of course the big question is whether this controller will be a big thing or not.....I have some doubts, sorry. For any add-on to be effective, it is going to have to have a lot of support. MS is basically going to have to pay companies to make good games for this add-on and they are going to have to do this more than once to get the ball rolling or else this will be another powerglove, sixaxis, eyetoy, etc.

MS is also going to have to do some things w/ development.....it might even have to make a lot of the games that use this 1st party, as they are going to have to basically copy nintendo's "feel" for games, i.e. make everything cartoony/fun/ casual.

In the end, the biggest plus about this controller and MS itself is that the company is loaaaaaaaddddddddeeeeedddddd. they can and really, have been simply pouring money into marketing, operations (refurbs), etc to a bit of a higher degree than Sony or Ninty in order to make the sacrifices that they need to make their business grow. I'm not saying that this will or won't work, but if it will all of these things : move to casual strategy, pouring out some $$$ like no tomorow for development, and they hopefully haven't made a POS controller like a lot of the Xbots are silently hoping that they aren't.

 

Why are the two mutually exclusive?  From where they stand right now, they are taking good care of the hardcore, and from what I am hearing, they are going to take care of the casual now as well.  Sounds like a sound business strategy.  The best of both worlds.