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GDC 2010: Sony Targets All Genres With Move

Sony's Jack Tretton has announced in a post-conference interview at GDC that all types of games can be adpated for motion controls.

"There isn't a game that won't apply to this motion gaming," he said.

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syrinx5154d ago

I just hope all games don't end up like Wii games which are usually not that great.

Medievaldragon5154d ago

Which Wii games have you played?

Shadow Flare5154d ago

I got a feeling this may Move *wink* some consoles

Bigpappy5154d ago

Who will they market to? And why will the target buy a PS3 and the motion package over the Wii they probably already own?

TheBand1t5154d ago

Pretty much what I've been saying all along. Who on earth is going to dump their inexpensive Wii with it's inexpensive games for Natal and Move?

presto7175154d ago

Dude would you stop posting that image?!!! PS Move takes all the best parts of the wii and makes them better.

Plus Move is not replacing the ps3, just adding to its ever-growing awesomeness.

DarkTower8055154d ago (Edited 5154d ago )

I have a PS3 and a Wii for my son. After seeing the Move demo today we made the decision to sell the Wii and buy the necessary accessories for the Move when it comes out.

Sony and Nintendo are on 2 different levels. Nintendo has taken advantage of the public with shoddy games, shoddy graphics and poor controls. Sony is showing the world how to do motion control the right way. With a plethora of 1st party devs and all 3rd party publishers on board we're going to be seeing some great things.

Another thing that came to my mind during the demo was the great opportunity for online play. That's something that the Wii doesn't take advantage of.

So to answer your question, Sony is targeting Wii owners who are unhappy with a crappy product.

ryano232775154d ago

I too have really wondered where the market is.

Yeah there is a huge casual market out there, but with the X amount of Wii's sold and those particular customers buy ALL the same games (look at the top seller list, been the same for a long time)

I am one who has said that the PS3 doesn't really need the Move. However if the games that come with it, can go WELL BEYOND (no pun intended) what the Wii has done, then I'm all for it.

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Xulfxulf5154d ago

remember when games were made for, you know.... gamers? People with like, manual dexterity? Ahh, nostalgia...

Medievaldragon5154d ago

All type of games? How can you play Starcraft II with motion? I can see it working with voice commands + motion, but not entirely motion.

Elly5154d ago

I love the idea of a shooter with a motion controller, not so sure about voice commands.

Medievaldragon5154d ago

Just saying, not all games as Sony says fit the motion technology. Shooter games, that's cool. RTS games and MMO with all those buttons and commands? Now that's a bit too ambitious without adding voice-commands along with motion.

butterfinger5154d ago

You do know that they said it will also take voice commands right? It was in their trailer, after all.

Narutone665154d ago

where Sony demo the Move. The demo was about tanks where you can choose or group the tanks together and direct them to their next destination. I think that game play can be adapted to Starcraft.

RedPawn5154d ago

I highly doubt StarCraft 2 will be for consoles anyway.

Ilikegames765154d ago

See the demo back in E3 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Fast forward to 6:39 and you'll see that Starcraft kind of game play is possible.

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GR8 15154d ago

Thanks Sony for degrading your well known company in the dirt and making us all ps3 owners look like complete retards.

Mista T5154d ago

you don't even own a PS3, so shoo

butterfinger5154d ago

if you think PS3 owners look like retards, just think about how absolutely moronic XBOX360 owners are going to look flailing their hands and legs without a controller. I can only imagine how stupid Natal is going to make people look. The guys on Jimmy Fallon looked pretty ridiculous when they were demoing it. If I wanted to drive a car without a racing controller, I would simply grab that imaginary steering wheel and close my eyes. No need to spend another hundred bucks or so.

awesomeperson5154d ago

Now your so DELUSIONAL you THINK you have a PS3?

Al Bundy5154d ago

Finally, motion controls that a hardcore gamer like me can get into.

butterfinger5154d ago

want to use these with Resident Evil 5. I absolutely loved playing RE4 on the Wii.

hetz155154d ago (Edited 5154d ago )

At first,i didn't have any faith at all in this motion controller thing, but after today's conference i decided to get it 1st day. I was afraid it would turn out like wii with their annoying wired nunchuck and also little support for hardcore games like killzone 3 or socom 4. After I saw the socom's demo,i'd convinced myself to support sony in this motion thing. I just hope that they don't get distracted too much by Playstation Move and forget about other thing,like the "real" games. Casual games like those sport stuff is cool,but making them like what Nintendo does with Wii is unacceptable. My support on Nintendo stopped after Gamecube ( I don't have N64 either) because they forgot how to make great games and focusing too much on that casual games thing. I have faith in Sony as always. They never disappoint me since the day I bought PSX in 1996 :)

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms

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rlow116h ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

blackblades8h ago

Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.

rlow13h ago(Edited 3h ago)

First, you don’t know who has or hasn’t played it. So that’s your assumption. Secondly, even if people haven’t played it in awhile, it’s still nostalgia. Those memories of sharing your creation and having fun playing other peoples creations. Third, no game out there is really like this or as iconic. Today if they made this they would nickel and dime the whole way through and it would launch broken.

Cacabunga2h ago

Reason why i really dislike online games.. they become unplayable over time.. LBP story mode is actually only a tutorial

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just_looken11h ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno9h ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

just_looken7h ago

This right here

Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal

Imagine if sony kept up ps home development

The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss

u-bEttA-rUn8h ago

Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.

DOMination-5h ago

Honestly, I think a well-designed LBP-style game would do better than ever in the current state of the industry.

People have short attention spans. Having something that is pick up, play a few levels and put down again is the experience the "masses" are after.

Keep it as a 2D platformer only with well-designed base levels, make it easy to build new levels and more importantly easy to access new content - personally I always found the way Forze Horizon 4&5 provide daily, weekly and monthly challenges via new content that they've built or handpicked from the community is a system that works great - and then stick it on mobile and PC with Steam Deck support.

Make it F2P with a one-off fee for the level editor (to stop people spamming crap onto the store) and have MTX for more characters, outfits etc. and there you have a live service game that Sony should be all over.

Do the same with a new Karting game and a 2D fighting/Smash Bros style engine and you have three bangers right there.

(I appreciate the N4G community will hate the idea of LBP being a live service game with MTX and I get that but I think if there's one game this model could work well for, it's this.. just imo)

anast3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Astro's is similar.

Not enough people cared to play it, so they cut it.

Sony has never been a kid friendly console. This should be obvious. People go to Nintendo for this stuff.

StoneTitan3h ago

Its on media molecule though. They did not want to continue LBP. Sony accepted that.
Sumo continued it. With a solala lbp3 and a great sackboy though.
Its not sonys fault. They dont want to force a studio to create a new LBP game.
But I would love a revival.

romulus231h ago

For some people Sony can do no right either. You can play Sackboy A Big Adventure on PS5. So there is "a game like this" on PS5.

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Tacoboto10h ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

DOMination-6h ago

Sony in the Andrew House era did support them massively though. They let them do their thing with LBP and spent millions marketing it. I remember one E3 they even used LBP to cover the boring parts of the presentation where they talk about sales figures etc.

And then they allowed MM to announce their game on the PS4 console announcement/showcase event and waited the entire generation for them to release it.

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