Playstation Move Games

A reasonably good Move PR interview with Dr. Marks on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/08/27/mcedwards.sony.playstation.cnn

Wish they had shown EyePet's special features though.

 

... or better yet, this (Start The Party):



Dr. Marks should have spun the controller like he tossed his sword last time. Core gamers will identify with the speed of tracking instantly. Wii gamers can validate his move (with a Wiimote+) at home.

The CNN PR video is ok/reasonable, but the host wasn't psyched by what she saw.

 

I have similar sentiment as this guy although I have not tried out the controller yet:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23076056&postcount=1680

I'd love to try out some of the casual games with my wife and kid. Want to see what they say.

 

These are game design issues. As I understand, most Wii developers didn't quite hit the jackpot. I assume they have some more learning and experimenting to do.

Willingness to pay for Move is a little tricky because people need to play it to understand/confirm its appeal. It's great to have cheap Move games, but Sony also needs to demonstrate the potential and depth of the games (to the hard core gamers !) so that people feel comfortable to spend more repeatedly. The casuals may not stick around, my wife and kid have Wii, iPad, FaceBook, PC Flash games and PS3 to toy with.

I personally look forward to Tumble because I heard it's special. But would probably frown on other cheap and tired game types pretty quickly (Gamers call them shovelware ?).

This is a consumer doubting the value of a few Move games without trying. It speaks to the "Need to try before understanding/buying Move" point. This is why Sony expected slow sales at the beginning. But these games better deliver, or word of mouth will work the other direction. This is also why I will only pick the unique Move games during my first few waves, specifically games that I know for sure can't be done on DS3 effectively)

Here, the ported Move games (e.g., MAG, Heavy Rain, etc.) may help since they are free or cheap downloads.

Yeah, Sony did not package Move properly to appeal to the consumers. They stopped half way (at the device level). It's a litany of precision motion games today. It doesn't project any "new experience" like iPhone, or the original Mac UI, or Web 2.0, or Kinect. It could, but Sony did not make an effort here.

They are still playing like an old CE manufacturer. Perhaps internal communication and coordination have improved. But they failed in establishing Move as something new. Their external communication has not delivered (yet). IMHO, they didn't get the best message out there.

 

Seems that PS Move embargo is lifting soon (or lifted ?).

Some gameplay videos from GAF in the mean time...

Echochrome II:


Tiger Woods 11:

 

Ha hah, "You can't flick it !" I think Sony has to start a new wave of re-education in motion gaming:



Will see how far I can go.

 

time crisis really need a move bundle.

 

That did make me laugh! "I'm going to play a tennis game by...waving the controller around furiously." That's the expectations of movement gaming? Nintendo has a lot to answer for!

Edit : Actually, in some seriousness, is this going to have an negative impact on the Casuals' perception of Move titles as being too difficult, if they are used to inaccurate motions leading to successful results on Wii due to all the player aids? This boy clearly couldn't recreate an actual sports motion to play the game given what he expected, but then again he was perhaps a Wii cheater, rather than one of those who took wild swings that would naturally miss, but Wii made them hit. Still, even those people are going to need some actually sporty hand-to-eye coordination. Store demos are going to need all aids on full...but then that'd deter gamers.

 

These are some great videos from a gaffer:

Sport champions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOIbYuJN6Nw
Flight Control: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTTasGQeD6Q

 

"Wii Cheater"?.....ah, reminds me of my cousin who used to put the Nintendo Zapper directly on T.V. for Duck Hunt, two decades ago

about Casuals being intimidated by these precised controls, I thought about that when I first heard how accurate the Move could be......imo, Sony should have the default settings for most games to "easy/assist" mode.....and let gamers find and change the settings to a more realistic challenge if need be.

 

I know. I thought that would've been an excellent platform for showing the "Minority Report" demo. I can't figure out why it wasn't shown.

 

There's the RUSE demo on PSN, an interestingly when I started it, before loading the game it instantly went into 3 pages of Move setup instructions, as if these are in firmware and called before a game loads, although it could also be a small executable tagged onto the beginning of a game.