EA boss John Riccitiello believes that motion control-based games on Wii, Project Natal and Sony's PS3 motion wand will eventually take up 50 percent of the games market.
Speaking in an interview with Kotaku, he said: "My guess is that where this ends up is: motion controllers end up with half the market. And the other half still ends up with a more traditional game controller.
"The industry, up until the Wii was introduced, was [such] that all genres worked on all platforms in sort of equal balance. There wasn't much difference. My suspicion is that what we're going to find is that different platforms will work better or worse - will get marketed better or worse - for a particular enterprise."
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The EA boss said the company is "relatively far down the path of understanding how the technology works," and even laid down the surprising revelation that EA almost invested in its own motion tech before Microsoft beat it to it, much to his relief.
Riccitiello also claims it "introduced Sony" to its motion control tech having seen it a few years back.
All this is ok if you look at the likes of resi 4 on the wii as a standard game (not talking wii fit etc here), but I personally don’t want to play all games this way. it's nice to sit and play a game on your favourite chair in front of your tv. it's how we've been brought up and to change this would take something very special. it's like pc gaming. I think you either love it if you don’t mind playing games at your desk with a keyboard, mouse and uncomfortable seat or you hate it because you want a joypad and a sofa. The games are the same but a different playing experience. I use the wii (occasionally) for a quick bash at something but I certainly wouldn’t want my core games taken away from my beloved joypad (360 of course as my ps3 pad sucks).
No doubt people are gonna bitch and gripe about shovel-ware and family gaming, but we need to look at the bigger picture.
The more companies invest in these systems, the more innovation we will see in traditioal gaming.
this is as the 8 button joypad is to the one button joystick of 20 years ago
don't be afraid of the future, remeber some games companies have a passion for the industry, and will make the best of whats to come. Bioshock, GTA, Gran turismo, will all find ways to use this innovation in ways that enhance gaming.
Good God, I hope not. If the current swath of motion-control games has shown us anything, it's that the vast majority are shallow and repetitive experiences, produced on the basis of marketability as opposed to playability.
Good God, I hope not. If the current swath of games has shown us anything, it's that the vast majority are shallow and repetitive experiences, produced on the basis of marketability as opposed to playability.
Just thought i'd correct you there. Its not just motion control games that have become like this. The whole damn industries going to hell.
@ mookistar, I totally agree. Motion control is a huge leap forward, i remember the amount of guys that bitched about moving from joystick to pad as well. So i'm sure the majority of gamers will come around eventually.
Good God, I hope not. If the current swath of games has shown us anything, it's that the vast majority are shallow and repetitive experiences, produced on the basis of marketability as opposed to playability.
Just thought i'd correct you there. Its not just motion control games that have become like this. The whole damn industries going to hell.
@ mookistar, I totally agree. Motion control is a huge leap forward, i remember the amount of guys that bitched about moving from joystick to pad as well. So i'm sure the majority of gamers will come around eventually.
na, its generally just the motion games that are shallow (if initally fun) repetitive experiences.
look at the online edge feature on the ratio of games on each system that rate above 85%.
ps3 and 360 had around triple the amount of games marked 85% and above over the wii.
which makes the shovelware thing people are saying, true. that was in fact their conclusion to the article.
you cant project wii sales onto the HD systems that dont even have the motion peripherals as standard. thats just silly EA.
Good God, I hope not. If the current swath of games has shown us anything, it's that the vast majority are shallow and repetitive experiences, produced on the basis of marketability as opposed to playability.
Just thought i'd correct you there. Its not just motion control games that have become like this. The whole damn industries going to hell.
@ mookistar, I totally agree. Motion control is a huge leap forward, i remember the amount of guys that bitched about moving from joystick to pad as well. So i'm sure the majority of gamers will come around eventually.
na, its generally just the motion games that are shallow (if initally fun) repetitive experiences.
look at the online edge feature on the ratio of games on each system that rate above 85%.
ps3 and 360 had around triple the amount of games marked 85% and above over the wii.
which makes the shovelware thing people are saying, true. that was in fact their conclusion to the article.
you cant project wii sales onto the HD systems that dont even have the motion peripherals as standard. thats just silly EA.
Yesterday you were saying EDGE are pretentious, now you're quoting them... Jesus, you're consistent...
Good God, I hope not. If the current swath of games has shown us anything, it's that the vast majority are shallow and repetitive experiences, produced on the basis of marketability as opposed to playability.
Just thought i'd correct you there. Its not just motion control games that have become like this. The whole damn industries going to hell.
@ mookistar, I totally agree. Motion control is a huge leap forward, i remember the amount of guys that bitched about moving from joystick to pad as well. So i'm sure the majority of gamers will come around eventually.
na, its generally just the motion games that are shallow (if initally fun) repetitive experiences.
look at the online edge feature on the ratio of games on each system that rate above 85%.
ps3 and 360 had around triple the amount of games marked 85% and above over the wii.
which makes the shovelware thing people are saying, true. that was in fact their conclusion to the article.
you cant project wii sales onto the HD systems that dont even have the motion peripherals as standard. thats just silly EA.
Yesterday you were saying EDGE are pretentious, now you're quoting them... Jesus, you're consistent...
that was today numb-nuts. and even if they are pretentious, doesnt make it less any true.
Imagine a game like oblivion with these controllers, I know they are a copy of the wii controllers but they work well. They were showing them off in E3 videos on the presentation space in home.
well there was all those articles from E3 about the press conference. Then the ones about the new zelda, and Metroid other M. I think there should be a review imbound for grand slam tennis and Indiana Jones. theres been a lot of coverage on motion+ the interviews with high voltage about the grinder.
Stuff on the viality sensor, the astro boy game thats coming out in the fall.
Oh yeah and Tales of Monkey Island possibly one of the most hardcore games to come out in bloody years.
Do i need to continue SVD,
The wii of course has shovelware becasue its so damn popular. The PS1 and 2 were both plagued with it becasue they were the best selling consoles of thier generation and considering the wii will probably eclipse the lifetime sales of the PS2 its no surprise that lots and lots of devs both big and small want a piece of that pie.
LEts also factor in the fact that its incredibly cheap and easy to develop games for and tadaaa a truck load of software of varying degrees of quality.
Theres a reason there isn't much shovelware on the PS3 its too f**king expensive and pig to develop for.
Why would you ever want to play something like Call of Duty MW2, Assassin's Creed 2, Forza 3, Mass Effect 2, Tekken 6... by waving a f**king stick around? No, I don't care that I can move and the guy on the screen moves.
EA, just make the little motion toy games for the kids and leave the gamers with pads.
if you've been a pc gamer. like you said you were and are in fact over the age of lets say 15 which i doubt. You'll understand how monumental the Monkey island series is and how much of an honour it is that the lastest interation of the series is coming to wiiware.
Proper gamers will understand this. prepubesant idiots that idea of gaming started with the ps2 won't.
You asked me when was the last time you even heard about a wii game or nintendo and i told you.
As usual you've been shown up to be an ignorant illinformed pisant.
to say getting to play ANY game is an "honour" says it all really. fucking loser.
you sound like the kind of cunt that wets his pants at midnight launches and buys all the collector editions.
i didnt ask YOU about a wii game on this site, i said MAYBE IM NOT LOOKING PROPERLY but i cant recall last time i seen a wii game on here. indeed look around, there none right now.
and i never owned a ps2, had a real console. saturn/dc.
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Doesn't the wii have roughly half the market at the moment ?
