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bluesinG said:
Worldwide sales of LittleBigPlanet: 2.25m (including bundles)
Japanese sales of Wii Sports: 3.58m (never bundled)

This guy may personally like user-generated content, and dislike motion controls, but his preferences are irrelevant to the question of what drives game sales.

sales != quality.

LBP is quality and it got the awards and rating to prove it.

either way  ferrari VS corolla.

 

corolla sells more, but ferrari are better quality cars. yeah not for anyone but thats why it's premium.



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Soriku said:
wfz said:
Vashyo said:
I just hope sony won't do the nintendo and start making motion controlled games as their top priority. >_<

I just don't feel like doing somersaults at home in tight space when I can go to the gym to do them anytime I want (thought I think I'll break my neck if I tried, I did once and I ended up in hospital, lol good memories).

Also at summer times when its really hot allready it's really tiring to waggle around on your couch and melt.

Yeah man I know how you feel! I hate how I have to jump 20+ feet in the air and spin around whenever I want to play Super Mario Galaxy. Also when I'm playing No More Heroes I have to swing my arms around all the time and do crazy sumo-moves in my room.

 

Freakin motion controls!


Pff, that's nothing. In ToS: DotNW I had to do a crazy lightning fast somersault. I accidentally crashed into my wall and went into a coma for a week. And in Zelda I had to use my Wii Remote to swing at different places in my house to grab on and landed on my chandelier, knocking my chandelier and I down :( Had to pay $200 to get a new one.

I feel no sympathy for anyone who owns a chandelier.



nightsurge said:

Lol, exactly.  Because no one plays games on the weekend.  And everyone has a long and tiring day at work running constant errands on their feet.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of people work sitting down for the majority of their day.  Getting up and playing after getting home seems like a good idea considering people should be exercising a few times a week anyways.  Now it's fun

I don't sit down at work and still use motion controls after I get off.



Xoj said:
bluesinG said:
Worldwide sales of LittleBigPlanet: 2.25m (including bundles)
Japanese sales of Wii Sports: 3.58m (never bundled)

This guy may personally like user-generated content, and dislike motion controls, but his preferences are irrelevant to the question of what drives game sales.

sales != quality.

LBP is quality and it got the awards and rating to prove it.

either way  ferrari VS corolla.

 

corolla sells more, but ferrari are better quality cars. yeah not for anyone but thats why it's premium.

Who said anything about quality? Not me. The article was about whether motion controls will go away. Whether that happens will be determined by game sales, which is what my post addressed.



ironman said:
hsrob said:
I can agree that people don't necessarily want motion control all the time or in all games. That's why a controller that also allows relatively traditional control styles is important.


And this is why MS will be making sure that all NATAL games will support the plain, oldfashoned 360 controller.

YES! Old controllers are a good thing as an option to a motion based game but anyway I cant kick the feeling NATAL will be supported by one or 2 games then thrown in the bin if anything it'll become another Virtual Boy because most of the games will be for aa traditional controller just like Blue Ray NATAL will be niche



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Bladeforce said:
ironman said:
hsrob said:
I can agree that people don't necessarily want motion control all the time or in all games. That's why a controller that also allows relatively traditional control styles is important.


And this is why MS will be making sure that all NATAL games will support the plain, oldfashoned 360 controller.

YES! Old controllers are a good thing as an option to a motion based game but anyway I cant kick the feeling NATAL will be supported by one or 2 games then thrown in the bin if anything it'll become another Virtual Boy because most of the games will be for aa traditional controller just like Blue Ray NATAL will be niche

No, MS isn't stupid, there will be massive support behind NATAL.



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