Comments on: Behind The Scenes With SCEA Research & Development (Part 1)

By: AlexAtkinUK

AlexAtkinUK — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:12:01 +0000

I actually love how Sony and Microsoft are going a different direction with this. It gives you more of a reason to own both consoles.

Although I too worry that Sony are missing one great thing about the Wii controller, the fact you have an analog stick in your “other” hand for movement. How else are you going to apply this tech to a FPS?

Though I feel Natal is a more subtle take on motion control. It can have things like head tracking so that when playing a FPS if you look left or right or duck, the camera can track that in-game. All the while playing the game using your normal controller, so it becomes a subtle addition to the normal controls rather than instead of. That will be appealing to those people who still want to sit on the couch with a beer as there are many actions you could still do sat down, as Microsoft show in their tech demos.

So overall, I think both methods are appealing for different reasons. The PS3 is going more for how most Wii games work, which is risky as they get boring FAST. Natal though I feel has the most real-world use because it can be added to game as a subtle addition.

By: senorkhoa

senorkhoa — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:51:54 +0000

This controller with a star wars game will be amazing.This is gonna be awesome.

By: BATman94Knight

BATman94Knight — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:27:48 +0000

While the tech looks great, and hopefully adds yet another reason to get a PS3 over the competition, I think Sony shot itself in the foot by going “cheap” with the last pre-slim PS3 iteration and not putting a USB port on the back of the console (I assume the new PS3 slim doesn’t have a port in the back either). Assuming the camera is not wireless, who is going to want a USB cable protruding out in front of their console in his/her otherwise sleek home theater setup?

By: theshepanator

theshepanator — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:39:12 +0000

Wow, I was convinced I didn’t want motion controlled gaming, and looking at the natal demo made me even more adamant that this was the case. Sony, you changed my mind again.

By: Darkos87

Darkos87 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:56:25 +0000

I have no interest in motion controls, I like my dual shock thank you very much.

By: kool-chris93

kool-chris93 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:15:27 +0000

I’m sooo getting this when they release it

By: Novacron

Novacron — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:02:25 +0000

Richard Marks and Anton Mikhailov probably have the most fun job in SCE. They get to try out all these new tech applications on a daily basis.

Looking forward how this’ll get utilised in future projects…

By: hyperslug

hyperslug — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:06:02 +0000

How about showing us the department where you are not releasing any good ps1 games?

By: samich2007

samich2007 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:45:50 +0000

its great that you keep us updated with these video interviews/walktroughts

By: Spurvugle

Spurvugle — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:16:21 +0000

great

By: Guttergod

Guttergod — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:55:48 +0000

I hope the game developers don’t fall too far into the Wii trap with this. That accuracy can make the controllers useful in more ways than just making us all jump around like idiots in our livingrooms…

Game developers are too afraid to try doing something NEW when it comes to controlling games. Which is why FPS-games still takes forever to get into on consoles.

By: swcoruscant

swcoruscant — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:51:23 +0000

I can’t wait for this, it’s much better than 360′s controllerless Natal. If there wasn’t a controller element I wouldn’t be interested.

By: taurus82

taurus82 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:44:50 +0000

Hopefully this ‘PS-Motion’ controller will convince LucasArts and Revolution (and other leading developers of point & click adventures) to produce their much loved Monkey Island and Broken Sword games for PS3.

By: Hibs_kid

Hibs_kid — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:57:20 +0000

not bad .

By: evret

evret — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:54:22 +0000

exion covered almost everything i’d like (post 24-25)
the only thing i’d add to that is, because there is 3d tracking you could creat 3d objects easily like lbp costumes, new car skins etc in a 3d version of a paint program. existing games could b patched to support importing user created skins and player models etc from such a program. the create program could have templates for supported games that would set size and shape limitations.
also doing it that way would prevent games from having to have their own create mode.
PLEASE HAVE AN ANALOG STICK ON EACH CONTROLLER

By: Bloody_Marcel

Bloody_Marcel — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:43:54 +0000

Looking forward to part two

By: exion

exion — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:16:00 +0000

(part 2… stupid word count restriction)
The thing that will make or break this technology is software support… Don’t just release a bunch of mini-games like you did with the eyetoy on PS2… this has scope to be used in major titles and it would be a shame to see it go to waste.

Perhaps the release of this product could mark the dawning of a new area of the PSstore, with apps specifically for the PSeye and motion controller (kinda like the eyecreate studio- which needs updating FYI!) with stuff like photoshop style art packages or zbrush style modelling studios for custom content, as well as gesture based actions for Home… then this will truly be a must buy peripheral!

By: exion

exion — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:15:27 +0000

As I mentioned on the US blog, I’m really looking forward to seeing what this tech is capable of, but to reiterate what the other people in this thread have said; PLEASE add an analogue nub (even one like the PSP’s would be sufficient) and face buttons so that using two of these in unison can simulate a regular dualshock controller (with benefits)….

This could be a viable alternative to computer mouses, especially in FPS and RTS games, not to mention the scope for user-customisation (like custom clan tags, skins/textures and so forth) with the accuracy shown here likening the product more to drawing tablets… which is a good thing!

By: Lanod35

Lanod35 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:13:52 +0000

Will you kill Natal?

By: wayne_halifax

wayne_halifax — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:53:00 +0000

wwwooowwwww