Totally obvious. All the Sony motion controller tracks is position. The Microsoft Natal stuff is not only tracking position, but the all of the shapes you are making with your body.

This is like saying it is easier to find your way around a 5 room building then a 250 room building. The obvious is true. And these motion controls are completely different and Natal will obviously require more work to use.

Wow a Wii motion+ clone is easier to use for developers than a completely new and innovative control system, hold the front page.

Thanks for those.

This OP is drenched in opinion...and light on facts and data to support the claims. No...they way to make make it easier to utilize a system is thru developers toolkits, so unless you've got data from that source, give it a rest.

^^Me, too. They are both very different, but at the core of it, doing the same thing.

@ Slowmo

Wow... MS being innovative!!! That's a change.

This is Microsoft we're talking about so they actually just bought it then pretended they made it

I agree with CGI though that I hope both of the new motion controllers succeed but this time without the cheap gesture systems that ruined so many Wii titles for me (obviously given the sales though I'm in a minorityin this opinion I accept).

Once again I ask, why bother with motion controls NOW.

It'll be over four years since Nintendo introduced motion controls. It'll be even a year later after motion plus.

They missed the boat. Just stick to whats making them barely any money than suddenly re introducing there fanbase to new controls now. They obviously don't have the software to attract people who are buying Wii's so throwing out motion controls that most likely don't support most the current library either...

Sorry it just sounds, dumb. Really, really dumb.

Cheap gesture system? Hey buddy, none of this would have happened if Nintendo hadn't taken the punt on motion controls 3 years ago. The price, atleast for Sony, would not have been feasable. Just be greatfull there are companies out there who are willing to redesign their controllers significantly, and take a HUGE risk on this technology. Without them you would be stuck in the past.

Regardless of whether they fail or not the Wiimote will go down in history as the key to the next generation in videogame technology.

But we can still hate Nintendo for no reason, right?

^ There are legitimate reasons to be upset with Nintendo. For the first time in history they have created a console with only 3 games that I would buy from them.