"One element of Sony’s Move that was not clarified during Sony’s stage demo has now been confirmed from on-floor testing: it vibrates, and quite intensely."
-AATG
The third episode of VGRT is a spirited one, as Jonah insists that Sony’s new game next week should be called "God of CRAP III" and gives an unassailable reason why, while Filippo says he’ll rip on Heavy Rain in his review, and Richard rips on Filippo’s review of Heavy Rain.
Also in the podcast, the trio discusses:
The pirate attack on UbiSoft’s DRM servers
the announcements of Portal 2 and Rock Band 3
Microsoft’s decision to unveil their Natal titles at E3
Sony’s decision to introduce eroding demos
Xbox Live finally loosening gay restrictions.
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."
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.
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.
Wired: Sony let us try a few of the games after its presentation. On the whole, they weren’t that much fun, feeling more like rough proof-of-concept tech demos than software that’s will excite consumers. If the Move is more precise than the Wii remote, it didn’t much matter when PlayStation 3’s versions of tennis and bowling just felt jankier than Wii Sports. At this point, the software isn’t living up to the promises of the technology.
Scorched Angel Writes: Overall, this game is a must buy for any baseball fan. It is up there with some of the best baseball games of all time, and is one that deserves to go on your shelf. Sony literally hit it out of the park this year. Even with the problems in the online mode, this game is still worthy of a buy, as it will last you well past when the next MLB The Show comes out. It is truly still the king of baseball simulation.
Critical Gamer writes: Final Fantasy XIII has been the source of much sniping between Sony and Microsoft fanboys, long before the English language release. Those in the Sony camp may have recently thought that they had ‘won’, now that it is generally accepted that the Xbox 360 version is inferior on a technical level. This includes the fact that the PS3 version runs at a higher resolution; but this seems to have turned out to be a poisoned chalice.
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.