NowGamer: Epic producer Cliff Blezinski has talked about what he wants to see from motion control titles, and why Natal has the edge
"The ones I personally like the most are the ones that are Natal-like, that I don’t have to have yet another plastic controller cluttering up my coffee table. Just fire it up, and do very, very cool movements with interesting results…"
GameBrit writes: "The Nintendo Wii has shown the masses that motion controls are popular. Not just for those who already class gaming as a hobby, but also for people who have never even played or enjoyed a games console before. This has led to the Wii being the current leader in sales followed by the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Naturally both Microsoft and Sony have seen this success and now want a piece of the motion based pie. This has culminated in Project Natal, a camera based option, and the PlayStation Move combination from Sony, featuring a camera alongside Wiimote and Nunchuck style devices. So with both vying for the crown of the motion controlled world, which one has what it takes to topple the Wii? My money is on Sony’s offering, and this is why."
Mashable: Last week, Sony announced the PlayStation Move, a new motion-based controller to compete with both the Wii and, more importantly, Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal full-body motion controller.
Peter Molyneux has told Eurogamer that he doesn’t think PlayStation Move is the same kind of step forward as Microsoft’s Project Natal, but admits he fancies a crack on Sony’s new magic wand controller.
Editor-at-Large Matt Casamassina dishes the dirt on the behind-the-scenes murmurings at the event. I’m not impressed, I say. PS3 Move features almost no latency — just one frame — but that paper truth didn’t seem to translate to reality as I played with the controller at Sony’s event. Most of the stuff played like first-generation Wii efforts from third-parties. Natal, though — the motion offering from Microsoft — not so much. The same studio rep calls Natal a big, buggy mess. "It’s sh*t," he adds, saying that it just doesn’t work as promised. That it’s slow and that the camera is imprecise, which he notes, is causing some major development woes.
VGArabia: Lionhead bossman Peter Molyneux thinks that Sony’s motion controller isn’t as big a step as something like Natal and he explains why.
Torrence Davis of The Bitbag writes, "After the official announcement of MOVE by Sony and the results of NPD, I had to see what was on Aaron Greenberg’s mind. So I asked him about Sony’s new MOVE system, what pushed 360 sales for February and the thoughts of seeing God Of War 3 quality graphics on the 360."
At GDC 2010 this week, Sony showed off the PlayStation Move, a copy cat to the Wii remote and Nunchuk for the most part, calling it the "next generation of motion gaming". The only difference really is the PSMove uses the PlayStation Eye camera and the Wii doesn’t.
No, it’s not the PS3 Arc and for sure not the Wand, it’s the PlayStation Move. Moving through GDC like a fresh breath of wind, Sony’s motion device has injected new life into motion gaming again.
Microsoft has recently claimed that this years Electronic Entertainment Expo will feature a showcase of titles from developers that are currently working on games with project Natal capabilities. Microsoft has also recently released a list of developers that are currently working with Natal. This list of developers are the ones that you are likely to see showcasing games with this new technology.