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Motion Controlled Gaming: Just a Hype

June 17, 2009 in Blog comments 7

-K from Gorilla Jumpers explains why he thinks that the industries current fascination with motion control is all hype and no substance and why Sony and Microsoft are now hell bent on jumping Nintendos coat tails.

We’re seeing a new movement within the gaming industry: motion controlled gaming. Yeah, I know, it’s been here for some years with the Wii and now Microsoft and Sony hop on the bandwagon to try to steal some of Nintendo’s market, and I’m contributing to this hype by writing about it. But there is something that I need to address, something I just want to say to ‘the big three’: dudes, get real…
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    HisServant77 Jun 17, 09
    Yeah, this will be said until someone manages to do it right and we have actual Virtual Reality with our games.

    But I do believe motion control as it is now, is more of a fad. Not hype. FAD.

    But it's okay. The more they do it they (hopefully) better they will tweak it and make it better until we have something good. Gotta wade through these "prototype" or basement-level type things first though.

    And people need to not act like these motion control things are the answer to all life's problem, and start screaming like little school girls who see their favorite boy bands in person and they look their way! It'll come and go. Just relax.
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    Duality_18 Jun 17, 09
    Virtual reality may be the next step for the Next generation of consoles though. I woudlnt be surprised of the ps4, xbox 720 or whatever will be after the wii could potentially dive into it. I'm thinking Nintendo would do it first just because the Wii is such a success they might of well do another bold move.
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    Capn Droid Jun 17, 09
    How long have people been saying that motion control is a current-gen gimmick?
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      Moonrise Jun 18, 09
      It's fairly accurate though. The games that people actually play on Wii don't need the motion controls and some are better off without them altogether. People get all excited about motion control, but when it comes down to it they're still playing the same old games the same old way.
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    DragoniteBallZ Jun 18, 09
    Actually it's more than that though. This whole motion control trend is just as video games is as a whole - an expanded mean for developers to discover and exercise more possibilities.

    This is one reason why developers love the Wii and the DS. They are much more exciting to develop for.

    As far as for the consumer. Well, obviously I don't think you'll ever expect something epic out of something quite unorthodox from the traditional video game play. Though they may be quite interesting. But the hype definitely becomes something epic for developers.
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      Moonrise Jun 18, 09
      "This is one reason why developers love the Wii and the DS. They are much more exciting to develop for."

      You sure about that? 3rd party devs have done a shit job working with both consoles for the most part. I'd say it's the easiest to develop for, but "exciting" doesn't seem to be the word in mind with most 3rd party developers when dealing with those two.
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    anacreon Jun 19, 09
    wii has so much shovelware.

    i am a casual gamer and a hardcore gamer. and theres about a 1 to 3 ratio between good casual games and the bad ones. i mean nintendo is targeting the extreme casual gamers not people who sit in the middle like me.

    as for hard core games we get about what 2 every year from nintendo? that pretty much leaves the hardcore market to 3rd party devs which dont like developing for the wii because nintendo abandond their core gamers causing them to switch to 360 or ps3.

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