Microsoft and Sony are set to unleash torrents of information regarding their motion controllers next week during E3, but is anyone wanting it?
Research company OTX has used it’s tracking service – GamePlan Insights – to quiz 2,000 American gamers on whether or not they will be purchasing Natal (or is it Wave now?) or Move when they are released later this year.
Of the 2,000 polled, only 8% of the Xbox 360 users are planning on buying Natal and only 6% of PlayStation users are intending to purchase Move. Of those, only 25% are willing to pre-order.
Okay, so it’s a low representation of a massive market but it does give an indication of some people’s attitudes toward the two new pieces of technology. This seemingly small amount of interest could be attributed to several factors such as lack of information, lack of pricing and a lack of footage showing what they are actually bringing to the proverbial table.
Seeing as the research only covered a small percentage of American gamers, I thought we’d better ask you guys. European gamers.
Based on the information that you have seen and read, what are your feelings about Project Natal and PlayStation Move? Do you want? Are you getting? Are you waiting? Are you interested at all?
Source: Gamasutra
bajere
Dont see the point in Natal as its just an EyeToy upgrade. And the Move looks like it has lots of potentinal, but i feel it wont get propper suport as its far from the dev favorte 360. You wont be able to press the ‘complie for PS3’ button to port it from a 360 game to a PS3 game, so i cant see EA, Activision, Rockstar ect making exclusives for Move only. So wii shovelware ports it is :-(
Moves only hope is Sony making good games for it!
And Natals only hope, is that the 360 install base has enough people in it to get sucked in by all the advertising, and not clock the fact its an gloryfied EyeToy / Netcam
cc_star
We’ve seen loads of Move games, you impressed? I ain’t. E3 really is make or break for it, I think.
I really hope Sony have something up their sleeves which separates it from the Wii, whilst maintaining the same impact on social gaming that it had.
My Wii owning Dad, cousin & friends aren’t crying out for more precise controls they’re crying out for more fun social experiences like Mario Kart and other stuff that made them go out and spend a couple of hundred quid in the first place.
Can’t really comment on Natal too much because we haven’t seen a game for it yet, but it does have the potential to revolutionise gaming. We’ll find out in the next few days I suppose, and then again in the Autumn when both are released.
bajere
Nope im not impressed with with move, but i would say that the tech is better than natal, and it could be great if dev’s create propper games.
And i wouldnt say Move is a glorified Moiton+, as it can do better tracking, add depth, is more accurate, and can run better looking games. From what i have seen from Natal, its done nothing what so ever diffrently from an EyeToy i played with back on the PS2.
Of course, at E3 Natal could show us someting new and good now they have finished it, but from the noises we have heard from dev’s, no one has been impressed really.
Its all new to be explored, but i do feel that the two platforms are too far apart for dev’s to make PS3 ports from 360 games, so i dont expect lots of ‘propper games’ from non first party studios
JesseDeya
At least we’ve seen _some_ games for Move, can’t say the same for Natal. Seeing nothing but Laggy Red Balls for a year is not the potential of something great to come, it’s stagnation. E3 may blow us away with Natal, but it would bloody well need to after so long of so little.
The irony is that you and I both see potential in Natal and Move respectively, but for different reasons.
You see the controller free concept of Natal as potentially revolutionary to gaming despite nothing concrete to show yet, whereas I look at Natal and see lag, fidelity that is too low (10cm squares), lag, red balls, lag, MS hype and BS, lag, advertising that asks us to pretend we’re stupid (scan my skateboard and insto ride in game… yeah, sure, ok)… and lag.
I see Move and see unparalleled and unrivalled precision, dual handed control with a dexterous, tactile, ergonomic control. I see hardcore and softcore catered for in one device. I see Move as yet another arrow in the PS3’s bulging quiver. I see a scaled approach to adoption, buy one Move to start with, more later if you need/like. You look at Move and see Wii M+ in HD.
I think Move has, and will prove to be, the most accurate controller. I hope, sincerely, that game devs decide to add Move support to core game titles, and keep Natal for the 60yr game set. Unless Natal has a fidelity as yet undemonstrated, it looks like it might be a novelty that might ultimately drag ‘motion control’ backwards as devs endeavour to make titles both Move and Natal compatible.
Controller free gaming may well be the future, but I wager Natal will grow to be remember as the still born first attempt.
bunimomike
Very nicely put, Jesse. In full agreement.
I think Natal has some incredible potential (if they can address the obvious concerns we’ve all seen) for controlling user interfaces and interacting with devices. However, as a way to control games, I’m not so sure. Sorry, to clarify… games with any degree of accuracy. However, Move seems to be less ambitious but all about the games. Even if it’s just a glorified Wii controller then they’re off to a great start. The Wii has sold by the bucket load and fingers crossed, people are hankering after more engrossing and in-depth games. The Move controller may well tease them across.
Finally, the Wii and Move will be easier to develop for (in tandem) than for the Wave. I remember reading a developer interview about that, recently.
Raen
Is Move that much more than a glorified MotionPlus?
JesseDeya
You need to do some digging, watch some Move tech vids and watch some demos. It’s not glorified compared to the Wii M+, it’s glorious. The two are the same in as much as the PS3 Cell is the same as the the Wii’s PowerPC. Both are CPUs, but that where similarities end.
The PS3 motion controller is, in keeping with Sony’s design philosophy, far more powerful than anything that has come before.
cc_star
Yeah, and we know how developing games for The Cell struggled to get off the ground outside of Sony studios, and TBH even now still ain’t great, looking at the latest offerings from almost 100% of non-Sony studios.
smokeybeef
I’ll probably get Move just for the ‘party gaming’ aspect. I’ll wait and see with Natal/Wave.
BasRutten
I’m not really interested in motion control, call me old fashioned but I like using a traditional controller.
For the types of games I play, I don’t think motion controllers will offer anything to me. I’ve been playing Forza 3 recently, and I’ve been perfectly happy with the regular controller. I also recently played through Killzone 2 again, and was completely comfortable with the DS3. For me personally, I just dont think motion controllers will improve the experience for me. Don’t fix what aint broken is what I say.
I think the money Sony and Microsoft have spent developing Natal/Wave and Move would have been better spent on new games and online features.
Lets face it, if they didnt exist, and Sony and Microsoft had never said they were making motion controllers, would any of us really care as long as plenty of games were still coming?
JesseDeya
Way to think inside the box man. Hey, if MS and Sony had never said anything about the 360 or PS3 and kept all that dev money, we could be playing some pretty awesome last gen games right now!
Ironically, nobody is going to take your controller from you, relax.
PS: Driving games with a controller? Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to drive with a wheel. G25 or bust.
UsernameHere
Yeah, ya know? It’s funny people always say they want new experiences, but they don’t want to support the devices that will enable developers to create those new experiences they supposedly want.
T-82
It might, if we’re to receive more point n click adventures on PSN/PS3, Move integration should prove beneficial for a mouse centric genre.
Amphlett
Give me a boxing game, something 1st person or semi-1st person like Punch Out, something which can get me moving my arms in a strategic way, ducking, covering, left upper cut, right jab, right jab, DOWN! That would get me very interested in MOVE.
FLUFFYB1TCH
Since I have a ps3 I’ll only be getting move, but would probably get Natal/Wave if I had an XBOX. Hell, i went for the eye toy only for little big planet so why not! I think both will be awesome. I’m overly optimistic
YOURMUMANDME
*shrugs*
Dunno yet, from what I’ve experienced with the Wii I like at least having a controller but until I’ve bought a ‘Move’ and broken a few lampshades the verdict is still out.
And with Natal or ‘Wave’ as they so intelligently made up themselves, I’m not really into so much. I had an Eyetoy a decade ago ….,
aerobes
I’m interested but it’s definitely a waiting game for me (In a manner of speaking).
Zoddi
I’m personally more into something physical. So Move is my first choice.
With the latest videos we can see that the Playstation Eye is also capable of movement recognization and so i believe it’s the best choice
bunimomike
Of the average folk I speak to (read: friends who have consoles but don’t game like us lot) most of them didn’t even know there were motion-based controllers like Move and Wave coming out. Pretty much says it all. Communication is everything.