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Originally Posted by Xantar
Ok fine, here it is for the third time.
Sony Move is an add-on peripheral.
In all the history of videogames, an add-on has never caught on.
As you would have figured out if you had read my past posts. Manasecret got it. Angrist got it. Justin got it. Why can't you?
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If I recall Playstation was spawned as an add-on of the SNES.
I wonder how that company is doing now.
My point is this:
Just because one hasn't caught on in the past, doesn't mean it will never happen.
Will it happen now? I don't know. I'm not clairvoyant. And frankly I have no stake in the company so I don't care.
What I've been saying is this is taking away the single thing that made the Wii unique. Aside from titles of Mario and Zelda and various "____ Wii" games, after the SMC and Natal are released, Nintendo will be an inferior machine.
Will it still sell? Of course it will.
But Sony and Microsoft have added 2 more options on the market, despite being add-ons.
Before if you wanted to get your kid some motion control thing, you'd HAVE to get the Wii, even if your kid somehow has a PS3 and a 360.
So instead of getting an entirely new system, they can just get one of the add-ons.
You'd (general, not specific you) be insane to think that Sony won't make Wii-esque games to ride the coattails of the popularity of casual gaming, which then just blurs the lines a little more.
Will it catch on with a flaming heat never seen before? Of course not.
But will the motion controller and Natal completely fall by the wayside? Fuck no, that's the 'wave of the future' as it is.
If anything all this does is make the market more competative, and force companies to actually make
good games that use motion control because there is more than 1 option, so it's not a sure-fire sell anymore.