Financial Times: Sony has failed to market its motion technology to maximum effect and its launch of its Move motion controller for the PlayStation 3 on Wednesday represents it arriving late to the current-generation game and with little new to offer.
The demonstrations were unimpressive. It was hard to see how this was much of an advance on the motion-sensing gameplay currently offered by Nintendo.
Yoshio Sakamoto, co-creator of Metroid, just finished his lecture at GDC. He spoke about Metroid: Other M, Tomodachi Collection, and Nintendo in general.
CC: Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has stated that the platform giant will start thinking about the development of the Wii successor, when an idea comes forward that can’t be executed on the current system.
Kotaku writes: "With the PlayStation Move looking, well, similar to Nintendo’s Wii Remote, you may have wondered how long it would take until it was announced a Wii game was being ported to the PS3. The answer? How about, oh, a few hours.
Warner Bros let us know today that The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest, a game previously headed for the Wii (and DS), will now also be making an appearance on the PlayStation 3, "with full support for PlayStation’s upcoming motion controller technology"."
Kotaku writes: I just played SOCOM 4 with the newly-named PlayStation Move controller. And now I know how the PlayStation 3’s motion-sensitive controller is not just a me-too Wii controller.
Fewer buttons: The Move controller is actually even more streamlined than the Wii Remote. Nintendo’s Remote still offers/confuses a new player with a d-pad, plus, A, minus, 1 and 2 buttons as well as a home button and B trigger. The Move has its own home button and underbelly trigger, but just five other points of button input. That makes the controller actually feel a little naked and therefore likely even less daunting to a new player – unless they need their controllers to look like TV remotes.
resumeplay writes: "Do we heap an unfair amount of expectations on Nintendo? Hmmm…Perhaps the best way to answer this is to consider the level of expectations you hold for a Nintendo-developed title…Yeah, poor Nintendo…So it’ll be a difficult task, indeed, for Nintendo to build a new Zelda title that will please everybody.
So in the spirit of love for our friendly neighborhood big business, here are a few suggestions for the next Wii Zelda title."
ResumePlay: Microsoft has announced some big news this week for fans of the Xbox 360: they are launching an aggressive new hiring policy aimed at recruiting hardcore fanboys into the Microsoft family. Sony will be following suit, as they attract LittleBigPlanet users and other Sony-lovers into the fold. Click the jump for more info on their new policies, and for Nintendo’s reasons for not playing along.
Sound a bit screwy? It is! It’s the first article in ResumePlay’s new column: the Bull$hit Article of the Week.
Digital entertainment designer Alien After All has launched the official website of its first video game on Nintendo DSi. DodoGo! is exclusively available for download from the Nintendo DSi Shop and promises some fun interactive content.
With DodoGo! you don’t just play on Nintendo DSi. To extend the game experience and stimulate the competitive spirit of the players, Alien After All sets new challenges on the game’s official site: www.dodogohome.com. This site enables visitors to follow the current events of the game, to download exclusive gifts, and to participate, whatever their level, in the players’ world classification of DodoGo!
By using the website, players have the opportunity to compete with other players via a system of world classification, or world ranking. Here players can assess their level and measure their progress throughout the adventure. In order to subscribe to the world ranking system, players will need to get their activation code from the Internet Code section of the game’s option menu. They can access the official site of the game from a PC or from their DSi console with the Nintendo DSi browser.
On the site, players need only click on ‘Enter your code’ and follow the instructions given on the screen. Their progression and rank will be registered and shown on the homepage of the official website. Players will also find exclusive DodoGo! gifts to download from the official website. The music from the game is available in mp3 and is compatible with all current software players.
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Alex Beech from Xboxer360.com writes "I wonder if anyone at Microsoft involved in the Natal project likes games. Since its announcement all they have shown us is renders of what they hope people will do with it. Glossy staged advertisements of smiling happy families, accompanied by disingenuous PR reps spinning the company line and not single real game. I watch as the Microsoft powerhouse tries to convince us that they have been working on the project for years, that it will revolutionise gaming and that it is a new concept that Nintendo didn’t beat them to four years ago. I watch, listen, and finally ask myself if anyone is buying it."
One of the more famous video game composers has been confirmed to be working on the new RPG from Nintendo and Monolith Soft.
