Five Reasons the PlayStation Move Will Win This Holiday Season- Gameplaybook

The PlayStation Move will sell incredibly well this holiday season, and Gameplaybook explains the five main reasons why.

[xYLeinen]

I'm sure the rest of the comments below will give at least 5 reason why we stopped caring about motion controls ages ago.

[hiredhelp]

what console do you own.?

[xYLeinen]

PS3

[mightydog01]

Then why bother clicking on it if it dont interest you....JUST saying dude

[Poseidon]

i work for a biltmore office and there supplying a great deal of ps moves for a convention this saturday.

[Oldsnake007]

same ads as the Wii but add Hdgaming, good and free online gaming, Bluray into the ads.

[Christopher]

Let me first put out there that in my book the Move is what I would invest in (and likely will just to play Dead Space: Extraction the way it was meant to be played). It clearly covers a lot more ground and can be used in practically all types of games going forward as well as increasing the type of games that can be developed for the PS3.

But, honestly, I'm going into the fourth quarter of this year with a clear mind and think that Kinect will sell better than Move. Why? Because Microsoft is king of marketing in the U.S. when it comes to computer software/peripherals. They already hit the right areas with marketing, the tweens. You can guarantee they will do a whole lot more than just some price comparison to pain the Sony option as inferior to Kinect. Unless Sony truly spends the money, time, and effort to beat Microsoft at their own game, Microsoft will come out ahead.

[sikbeta]

I need only 3 Reasons:

1· Coca-Cola advertising Deal
2· GAMES
3· Kevin Butler doing his job

[shadow_lawless]

I love the move, and im sure alot of people who already own a ps3 will be buying it, but i doubt it will outsell kinect simply because like everyone else is sayin it will be marketed properly and has that gimmicky wow factor.

for all those that are saying people who bought the wii are casuals or ignorant are forgetting when the wii advert first came out casuals and core gamers both thought it was gnna be really cool (remember that redsteel advert i remember loads of people talking about that) even at E3 and TGS apparently wii had the biggest crowd. it was only after people realized it didn't work as advertized that it became the casuals console.

but the move is different it actuallly works and can actuallly do all the stuff we saw on those first wii adverts that got us excited. so saying move is casual just because its similar to wii in the way that you use a motion controller to play is just stupid. wii wudnt be regarded as casual now if the controls had worked really well from day 1, though there alot of causual games available for it, there are also alot of core really gud core games (let down by the wiimote) that would be considered AAA if they were on Xbox or PS3.

[Omega4]

Anyone who believes that Move will outsell Kinect or even Wii is just silly. Im sorry but no one but current PS3 owners will buy it, I don't see it selling many (if any Move bundles).

Casuals will get there motion wand controls from Wii, Move would only stand a chance if it was different and its not, accuracy means nothing to a causal gamer and if Move doesn't get the casuals attention it won't sell well.

Edit: Also I don't think Move even got any family friendly games either, or even a fitness game. Move seriously won't be expanding the PS3's audience.

[Johnny Rotten]

sounds like your a fan of sales and big red balls!!

[Jay520]

Sony themselves said that they didn't want MOVE to be a casual device.

[mightydog01]

accuracy is one of the most important things dude....so what your saying is customers are going to pay $150.00 for it to play like shite and be happy....Are you blind and games are coming for the familys and kids for move plus they've already got games like buzz, singstar. the eye-pet is already out that uses the eye-toy . KONnect tec is not ready and it will sell at first till they get it home and realise its useless and then returns it and gets a wii or the ps3 with the best and new motion control tec on the market.....

[Spenok]

So very true. Its the main reason im getting Move myself. To see the realization of the potential of the Wii. Oh and the games Sony has announced for it as well.

[btk]

Wow... just Wow...
PSeye has all the type of games that Kinect has. Move has more. And by your math it somehow add up to be less.

Now picture this...
The great Macy demo...
The release of the Move. With all of the PSeye games demoed next to the Kinect. A month ahead of Kinect launch. For less than Kinect. Without lag. With 1:1 hardcore gaming. With table-tennis, golf, LBP2 etc.

Then with fanfare Kinect launches after people had month of first hand hands-on experience with Move. Kinect will tank - because people are not as naive as you hope they are. Kinect would stand a chance if it released before Move.

But with the laughable demo's and sub-par capabilities - it will become a hard sell. Especially as a stand alone. I will predict that it will sell a lot of bundles, but very few stand alone units.

Move seriously will expand the PS3 audience. On the PS3 front I think we will see lots of single units selling as well as bundles.

[Poseidon]

1. killzone 3 move
2. sorcery move
3. accuracy of move
4. heavy rain move
5. dead space extraction move

6. resident evil move

those are my 2 pennies

[a08andan]

"Casuals will get there motion wand controls from Wii, Move would only stand a chance if it was different and its not, accuracy means nothing to a causal gamer and if Move doesn't get the casuals attention it won't sell well. "

I belive that most of the people who owns a PS3 aren't casual gamers so saying the above isn't a good argument.

And you're saying that Move won't expand the PS3 audience, and yet you are arguing that Kinect will. I don't see why causals would go out to by an Xbox 360 or a PS3 for that matter if they already own a Wii when it comes to gaming.

[Boody-Bandit]

Like it's a bad thing.

That is just the point Omega4 most PS3 owners CAN use Move with nearly any game that is made on the PS3 from here on out. 38 million consumers and growing! 360 consumers will only be able to use Kinect with games made specifically for Kinect. Very casual games. The 360 user base is made up of mostly hardcore gamers so please explain to me what is the point you were trying to make?

Oh you think (speculating here) that the Wii crowd is going to jump ship and jump into Kinect? Good luck with that. I own both consoles (multiples actually) and I have zero interest in Kinect but I am getting Move for the very reason I listed above. With the PS3 you will have the option of which controller you want to use. With the 360 it's either the standard controller for mainstream gaming or Kinect for casual gaming.

Personally I need a controller in my hand. Going through the motions just doesn't do it for me. Kinect is like having sex without touching or penetration. I need physical contact! ;)

[aCHU]

HAHA only one bubble,man omega your ass must be hurting by now lol.

[Thecraft1989]

And how is kinenect going to look different than the eye toy in the consumers eyes all the going to see is the camera and think oh they copied eye toy that put away after month of use. and all games look shit. Ps3 move has many option of different games FPS Rts RPG's etc kinenct cant do any of those games with out a controller and people will see that and think is it worth £130 plus the people don't have xbox 360 S will have to buy adapter as i don't see M$ selling kinenct with one.

[mastiffchild]

Omega ceased thinking as a gamer a long time ago, in fairness, so you shouldn't mock the afflicted. To me the big concern I have is that I fear MS are hoping to profit short term by hoodwinking the ignorant or uninformed. Sure, they'll market Kinect to saturation and people WILL buy the unit but then what? Should anyone, even Omega, be championing that attitude when there's simply not one thing worth paying attention to in terms of games for it?

They will sell well at launch but when mum and dad normal find that, unlike elsewhere, only two of the family can join in and there aren't many games and less variety on Kinect it might become a TV ornament VERY quickly. Is it something to celebrate that a company manages to rip people off with an overpriced peripheral with poor performance and zero games worth looking at never mind playing?

As it stands Kinect seems to have hit a wall where the possibilities have become too distant and turned into difficulties with developing games for a system with no answer to navigating game worlds or any way of accurately, even in casual terms, of shooting a gun. the issue, then, is that casuals, or those ignorant of the facts, will imagine they're getting something they clearly aren't(not from what any of us know anyway)-an add on with a decent library of playable, interesting and fun games. the fact it seems to work when it wants to only adds to the mess and I don't think seeing people being ripped off when trying to enter the gaming arena(and possibly being turned off for life)as something to get all cheerleadery about.

seriously, Omega, you're now just spouting lies-no family centric games for Move? Where have you been ffs? I'm not over the moon with Move either but to say there's no spread of games for it is just falsehood. We understand you prefer your 360-that's fine, there are GREAT reasons to feel that way-but don't lie about the situation just to satisfy some bizarre fanboy posturing which makes you look awfully cold hearted by enjoying thew way MS are selling this as something it clearl;y isn't right now. Surely we've all learned not to buy things , esp mid gen peripherals, on promises rather than hard evidence, no?
So why is it a cause for celebration if Kinect sells well? Wouldn't we with the knowledge be best served to be telling people to, at least, wait til the games arrive(if they ever do) before jumping in?

Honestly, I think you're being ridiculously cynical on this one just to kee waving your green pom-poms. I'd LOVE Kinect top be offering amazing new directions for gaming(cross out the menu navigation/TV channel surfing Minority report nonsense as it was whack when Eyedentify showed the same nonsense years ago-five minutes of that and you'd be crying for a button to press as they do the job better than gestures EVER could)but til we see them I'd feel tight telling anyone to buy Kinect, Really.

As for Move-I'd say the same. Wait til the games you like are avialble but with old games also using te tech that shouldn't take half as long and will possibly be the case at launch. Ifd it's too similar to Wii for people then so be it but the important thing to me is that no one buys something useless and Kinect runs the risk of being just that after a VERY short space of time.

[hiredhelp]

mightydog01 you have hit the nail on the head .response time for this kinda gadget is important to gamers. and with move covering all angels of gaming .the 360 guys above here.in this room who feel a little bit sad. so they saying move wont sell. go trade in your console not that sony needs your sales.but you will soon be bashing developers when they decide to make move games or move support than natel.sales will rocket.
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MIGHTYDOG01 you get my vote and bubble cos i feel good

[Dance]

another site desperately looking for hits

[hiredhelp]

u just added a hit then .

[BeaArthur]

DS3 and video games will win my holiday season.

[kraze07]

Not in my house. Motion controls take a back seat to traditional gaming in my pad.

[mcstorm]

All I ever see on every post about move and kinect is you look silly playing Kinect. Look at the link below and tell me the guy who is playing Move with 3d glasses dose not look silly

http://uk.gamespot.com/spec...

Move and Kinect will be a hit for MS and Sony but Kinect will sell more because MS are going for the wii audience and I really do think it will work.

If you look at the pricing for sonys kit it way out of what you will pay for a 360.

If you want 360 to do everything it can do you need to buy.
Xbox
3 pads
Kinect
Xbox live
Sky Subscription

For PS to do everything you need to buy
Ps3
3 pads
4 wonds
4 numchucks
1 cam
4 3d glasses
Play TV (Freeview Recording Box)

now from a cas point of view which looks the better option? Move will not out sell Kinect because the cas market is far bigger then the core market plus 99% of move games will use the ps3 controller so why do you need to buy move where as all Kinect games only use kinect to work (when 1st released) and then add the controller early next year. But you can use both together you cant with Move.

[WeaseL]

You can use DS3 for nav-controler

Not seen a kinect 4 player game
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010...

[jneul]

with kinect you need to buy a new house, but my claim is actually more relevant than your, just saying...

[mcstorm]

Buy a new house? that is the same for Move or Wii you need enough space to move around for all 3 devices.
But how many people who slag move and Kinect off have used them my gess would be 0 I dont dislike any of them I think they can both add to the fun part of gaming. PCs were seem as being better because of a mouse and KB but this gen has proved that we can do it just as well with joypads all I can say is thx to all the companys that have been and gone and are still here for giving us new devices and pushing gaming onto the next level. here is to the next 10 years.

[mastiffchild]

Why menton 4 of anything? Kinect can only mange two players. If you want your whole family playing you'll need two 360s and two Kinects. then Move doesn't look so dear, does it? Fun with numbers! We can all do that.

When my eight year old learned that only one of us could play with him Kinect died for him. Casuals used to playing otgether on the Wii will feel the same in my book but , sadly, not many will even know this when they buy Kinect. I think it stands to con a whole lot of p[eople in this regard as they'll assume that just because Wii and Move do 4+ that Kinect will as competition. Also, what's to keep them playing and buying kinect games post launch? It works sporadically by all accounts and has very little range of games you'd look twice at never mind buy into.

I WANT it to be great as well but right now I just dsee it as a massive con. the way the scope was scaled back since E3 2009 is the most telling thing to me and I fail to see them ever getting proper games to work with it and never as well as they do with a pad or with Wii or Move.

Launch sales will NOT be a guage for the success of Kinect either-it needs to keep people in gaming and keep them buying games and I just haven't seen any evidence to suggest that's going to happen. I hope it does for all those buying one at launch(and eventually for us all)but, seriously, what have we seen to make us think that's likely? Joyride? Kinectimals? The weakest playing sports compendium of the three?

I plainly don't understand why any gamer who knows what they're saying would promote Kinect right now. I'm not one to miss a chance to put a big foot in my chops but even I think it's a big risk putting my eggs in MS's basket on this one. the expense argmument is moot, anyway, when we all saw Wii buyers sticking four or five sets of chucks and motes on the counter wth their Wiis over te past few years. Ninty made a mint on selling those extras and casuals expect it now and while that may make them feel Kinect's a bargain they'll very soon see it isn't, that they cannot play together at all and that there's no game quality or variety yet.

[acky1]

with a live subscription for a few years...but you're right with one thing, the casual market wont see it like that.

I like how you place 3d glasses in as if its gonna hinder the sales of move. Funny.

You will probably be right that kinect will sell more because people are gullible buggers. But if you want a fair comparison:

If you want 360 to do the same as PS you need to buy:
Xbox 360
Kinect
Live

If you want PS to do the same as 360 you need to buy:
PS3
PSEye
2 Move Controllers (only 2 because thats all we've seen kinect able to use)
2 Subcontrollers

About the same over time.

[mastiffchild]

You can use a DS3 for the Nav sub controller so you don't need ANY. Also, we haven't yet seen many games where you'd NEED two anyway, have we? you'd be buying a second nav fr very little reason in my eyes.

[acky1]

I was just giving a fair comparison if you want either to perform equally with one another...then you would need two for things like two player tennis (probably all of the Move games will be two or more player)

But then again its not entirely equal seeing as a subcontroller will let you actually play core games which kinect couldn't. I dunno it's as fair a comparison as I could make it without a backlash from either side.
Personally, IF I get Move it will be one Move and one subcontroller for definate to start off with then see what happens, cos I wouldn't like one controller to sit idly by 90% of the time while I game with the other.

And btw have you actually tried holding the DS3 like that...it is really not comfortable and would not be ideal for gaming. Only the most stubborn people will stick with their DS3s and will quickly get owned online by those with a subcontroller.

[GigaGaia]

The reason Move will succeed is because Kinect will fail.

I mean 150$ for Kinect and unless you have a 360 Slim, then your 360 isn't ready for Kinect, you need an adapter which is priced at 50$.

[bednet]

Move seems to have a better integration with the existing hardware and game library. Games on 360 will be either Kinect only or will only support it as Sixaxis type gameplay, if at all. Move on the other hand will be integrated in the type of games we know and love as well as innovative new games specifically designed for it.

[Zerodin]

The Wii says hi.

[jneul]

there is no reason not to get the move starter kit now with this news:):)
http://www.pushsquare.com/1...

[tiamat5]

About 500,000 people own a PSEYE. That is 500,000 potential customers right there who can buy a Move Wand for less then a price of a game. Just saying that is probably 500,000 Move buyers right off the bat.

[jneul]

I am one of those lol, i want the move so bad willing to go broke for it lol

[nikebee]

if Sony wanted gamers to take the Move seriously, they wouldn't have modelled it after a glow in the dark dildo

[Qui-Gon Jim]

They do want gamers to take it seriously, they just don't care if YOU don't take it seriously.

[Prcko]

move rocks,day 1 buy

[Prcko]

alrdy won