Playstation Move
Any other PS3 owners getting/got one?
Mine arrived a day early so I had a good go with it last night with Resi 5 Gold. Seems really accurate, far more so than the Wiimote (and I'm not bashing the Wii, as I think it's a great machine) and I love the colours the ping-pong ball changes into!!
RE5 is pretty much the control system of Wii RE4 and it REALLY benefits the gameplay, I may actually play it to completion as I found it uncontrollable with a pad - and I'll readily admit I was spoilt rotten by the RE4 Wii control system!
Here's hoping it's not simply conversions of Wii shovelware that makes their way across :-(
Incidentally, placing the Eye above the TV screen rather than below it improved the accuracy a hell of a lot.
Mine arrived a day early so I had a good go with it last night with Resi 5 Gold. Seems really accurate, far more so than the Wiimote (and I'm not bashing the Wii, as I think it's a great machine) and I love the colours the ping-pong ball changes into!!
RE5 is pretty much the control system of Wii RE4 and it REALLY benefits the gameplay, I may actually play it to completion as I found it uncontrollable with a pad - and I'll readily admit I was spoilt rotten by the RE4 Wii control system!
Here's hoping it's not simply conversions of Wii shovelware that makes their way across :-(
Incidentally, placing the Eye above the TV screen rather than below it improved the accuracy a hell of a lot.
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http://us.playstation.com/ps3/playstation-move/
You can also get a controller like the Nunchuk on the Wii. You don't have to as the DualShock3 will also work it's just a lot more uncomfortable.
ha ha, wtf is that blue ball on the end?
sorry, i thought it was something like the natal thing, it does just look like the wii thing.
Nah, it's Sony's rip-off. The idea behind the ping pong ball is that the (Playstation) Eye can judge when the wand is moving closer/away (as the ball gets bigger/smaller with the distance) which can't be done with the Wiimote.
Nope. Says more about yourself than those who enjoy using them ;-)
it have been better it it had been purple. :-P
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Nice gimmicky type of console, its good its become mainstream and all ages seem to like consoles/games whereas before it was still considered a 'bit' nerdy.
But i do remember all the hardcore gaming fans slating the Wii when that first came out and then slowly jumping on the bandwagon. Quite a few discussions on RG about that. This new Playstation Move seems late to the market and the PS3 wasnt a huge hit was it ?
(Talking of new gaming consoles/gadgets - I wonder how the Pandora is doing ? Seems to be a bit quiet?)
It's not just the ball, that I believe is just for distance, etc. There are all sorts of motors and mercury switches inside to determine what angle you are holding the controller.
It is for RE5! It changes colour dependent on what the dev has set. If you press the Select button on it it cycles through quite a few colours quickly.
Not as huge as Wii or PS1/2, no. It's about 3 or 4 million behind the 360 IIRC at around 35m sales. This generation has been pretty healthy for all of the manufacturers.
I dunno what you get up to in the privacy of your own home ;-)
Nah, what I meant is that you obviously feel that anyone who does use one of these devices should consider themself a knob jockey. So I was reflecting that if you actually used one, you would feel that you are!
Sh!t me, that's far too deep for a thread about a waggly controller :-)
Yeah, Sony aren't doing that badly. The Move ought to allow ports of successful Wii games to the PS3 and expand it's appeal beyond the HD eye candy market.
It's a bit of a shame that they appear to have cocked up the Tiger Woods game though; that's been one of the flagship third party successes on the Wii. Nintendo will still be sitting pretty because most of their biggest selling games are first party ones too.
There's a John Daley one coming out that's supposed to have spot-on one-to-one tracking, and is a first-person golf game, however the hell that's going to work! No mention on how the drinking 25 pints game at the 19th hole works though ;-)
The trouble is, most (all?)of the third party Wii games are shit. The only good one's being first party Nintendo games.
There's a "true aim" mode in the latest Tiger Woods game that probably works in a similar way. You don't get to zoom to where the ball's gonna go (to aim your shot) like you usually do, or see a fly-by of the hole... you just aim towards the fairway and take the shot, much like on a real golf course.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003E8LA7M/
imagine getting that for christmas, :-D
Most, certainly not all.
Back on topic, I think the PS3 Move looks terrific and it is making me seriously consider getting a PS3. The controller is a wii rip off but sounds slightly better and the PS3 should also have some interesting non-FPS games that will use it with beautiful eye candy.
That might have been true in 2007, but it's hardly the case now.
Regardless, whether they're good or bad, a lot of third party Wii games have sold in huge numbers, but been impossible to port to the PS3 because it lacked a suitable control system until now.
I'd agree that there's probably a big market in sprucing up older games with motion controls too. I don't think too many of the Wii's best sellers are in that category, but the software industry rarely misses a trick when it comes to money for old rope.
Why would you want dross like carnival games ported to the PS3? The fact that these "games" were impossible to do on PS3 was surely a good thing?
The Wii is able to detect distance and if you move the Wii-mote closer to the screen and pull it away etc. It's just that not very many games make use of that feature. most of the Wii's party games (from what I understand anyway as I don't really have any) just have you waving the thing around as fast sa you can. I did notice a few reviews of some of the move games complaining about this too.
I saw a member of staff in GAME playing it yesterday and it had a purple ball on the end. It matched his uniform at least :lol:
Nope. I can name you several great third party Wii games...
House of the Dead (2&3, pluss Overkill)
Ghost Squad
Okami
Resi Evil 4
Madworld
No More Heroes
Tatsunoko vs Capcom
I personally won't be buying 'move' as it's obviously a complete Wii rip off and I've already got one of those that I don't really play very often due to it lookig crap on my HD telly and the fact that I've already completed the good games!
I may be tempted (and only may be) if Sega convert Madworld onto it with a few more levels etc
Most of the staff in Game are knobs so that would be perfect :lol:
Let me add.....
Resident Evil ReMake.
Resident Evil 0.
Calling.
Silent Hill Shattered Memories.
Dead Rising: Chop til' you Drop (alright I know I'll get some flak for this one, but after hating it at first, I've decided that I really like it, and since I've not played the 360 original I don't know any better :p).
.......to that list :)
I would've said Rygar was alright too, if it wasn't inferior in almost every way to the PS2 original, which is a bit of an embaressment really :roll:
Oh hang on I was supposed to be sticking up for my dust magnet....erm....I mean Wii :D
....The Wii Netflix Disc rules (No really it does I've used the Wii way more with this than any games). :lol:
I can understand why you think the Wii does this but from what I've read in the past that is entirely due to the accelerometers in the Wiimote and Nunchuk (hence why Wii Sports boxing works with a controller that has no effect on the sensor bar - the Nunchuck). The sensor bar cannot judge distance at all (as the "camera" is in the Wiimote, the exact opposite to the way Move works). The Eye senses fluctuations in the size of the "ping pong ball" of the Move device and can therefore sense actual depth.
This is entirely from what I've read, I have no actual knowledge of such things
The 'sensor' bar isn't a sensor at all - it's two IR light sources a fixed distance apart. There is a camera in the tip of the Wii-mote that detects them, and from their position and separation it can calculate rotation, where it's pointing, and its distance from the screen.
The difference with the Sony ball is that the camera will work out where the ball is in space. The Wii will work out what direction the remote is pointing.
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Quite simply because there's a market for it. I'd think that Sony want the PS3 to cater to all gamers, not just the nutter hardcore ones, and they've been missing a trick by handing a huge sector to Nintendo on a plate.
Anyway, I'd think that Carnival Games is long past its sell by date these days so you're unlikely to see it ported to the PS3. Just Dance and EA Sports Active, on the other hand...
Who really, really get on my tits. Constantly bemoaning that the markets flooded with shovelware (which in fairness it is to an extent), you would think to hear them that previous hardware generations had nothing but triple-A titles. A wise man once said 90% of everything is crap and he was damn right.