Posts Tagged ‘Motion Control’

In yet another new feature here on the Play Blog, we take a look at games on other formats and talk about why we think they should make the jump to PS3. And we’re not even fanboy-baiting. What are the odds?

Sony has explained at GDC that it tried out a number of different technologies and methods in pursuing a motion control solution for the PlayStation 3. Move was originally revealed at E3 last year, but given its final name and extensive demos at the developer event in San Francisco this week.

Alright, so the name sums up what it’s all about and stuff, but it’s not very imaginative, is it? Fortunately, I have an extremely fertile imagination that just loves to make up names for things, so I’ve come up with my own shortlist of names. Sony’s gonna read this and think, “Damn! Why did we call it Move when we could have gone with any of these brilliant suggestions?” Never mind Sony. Maybe next time.

In what we have to take as our first official PlayStation 3 motion control support announcement, EA has revealed that the next Tiger Woods title will include functionality for the wand technology. Due to arrive June 8, Tiger Woods 11 will include options that support Sony’s ‘Arc’ controller, although the unit itself is not expected to launch until at least a couple of months later.

While it still doesn’t have an official name, Sony has been boasting about how easy it is for developers to produce games using its motion controller, codenamed Arc. According to Sony Arc has a massive advantage of Microsoft’s Natal because it doesn’t require a whole new code base for game development and simply latches on to what studios are already using.

We’ve been hearing more about ‘Gem’/'Arc’, or whatever they end up calling it, over the last few months

Heavy Rain creator David Cage has poured fuel on the flames of motion controller talk by suggesting more news regarding motion control and Heavy Rain could be coming soon. Speaking with Norwegian gaming site Dagbladet, Cage said that Heavy Rain had been working with motion control from the beginning, but couldn’t make it work entirely on the Sixaxis. The final game uses a mix of motion controls and buttons.

Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports and former Xbox 360 tattoo flasher, has said that the PlayStation 3 motion controller, codenamed Arc, is a very different experience than Nintendo’s Wii. Despite both being wand based Moore seems to believe that the underlying technology requires a whole new approach. He confirmed that EA already has some sports titles in development for the platform.

We weren’t sure how popular EyePet was going to be even though we fell in love with it a little on the Play team, but it seems the little fella did well enough to warrant a sequel. Speaking to Gamekyo Sony France’s George Fornay has revealed that a follow-up is in the works. It probably wouldn’t be much of a leap to suggest it will involve use of the motion control tech launching later this year.

For a while we though it would be the Sphere and then word came that it would be Gem, but now VG247 is reporting that the PlayStation 3 motion controller will be called Arc. This information comes from a confidential source according to the blog site, but is considered to be very solid. Sony has of course refused to comment on rumour and speculation.

David Cage has once again stated that Quantic Dream are seriously looking into uses for the PlayStation motion controller/Wand/MoCon/Voodoo Stick

Electronic Arts’ CEO John Riccitiello has apparently let slip what Sony’s motion control ‘wand’ is going to be called

The announcement of Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition/Director’s Cut/The Extended Trilogy took many of us by surprise, but it would seem Capcom doesn’t want to keep us in the dark about anything else

Shingo ‘Seabass’ Takatsuka is known for making reasonably outlandish claims – like, for example, that the next PES game will reinvent football as we know it, or something else we just made up to illustrate the point