Natal and motion-controls

[CheckD3]

So I'm starting to see a lot about Project Natal nowadays, and though I didn't see Microsoft's E3 conference, I know what it's about and such. But that's besides the point. As time keeps going on, I wonder what the future holds for gaming. With Sony and Microsoft jumping on the motion control wagon that Nintendo brought along, I wonder what's going to happen to the controllers of the world.

I'm talking about the wands we wave around for the Wii or the ones that Sony have revealed for theirs, I'm talking about good ol' fashion controllers, the one that Sony has kept the same for the last whatever years. The ones that Nintendo changes every system change, adding more to them. Or Microsoft's stabs at the good controllers.

So for the future of controllers, do we get to see them in the next generation of games, or are those who want to just push buttons and move joysticks, do we have to live in the past?

 

[DustyDrB]

Some people like it, some love it, while others hate it or just don't feel anything at all about it. As always, the haters are the most vocal. You'll be seeing evidence of this soon...

 

[Daveman]

I would hope gaming companies will start thinking about what they're displaying games on, I mean what's the point of high graphics if your TV is rubbish. That's going to be the limiting factor, I'm guessing, to how pretty we can make our games, not how good the console is.

Oh, and I really hope they don't do the 3D thing... that'd suck I'm betting.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I think it's rather dumb. People don't buy the Wii for the motion control, they buy it because it's accessable. Games still have vanishing bullet holes and bodies and shell casings, and you bastard developers are dicking around with motion control?

AAARGH!!!!!!

 

[Infinatex]

Keep it simple, if I want to jump around like an idiot, crazily flailing my arms, I'd join the circus. I play games to chill and relax after work. Waving my controller around or balancing on a plastic board is not relaxing. Some people may like it, but it's just another fancy gimmick to market video games to people who would not normally play them.

 

[CheckD3]

Eventually traditional controllers will die

No matter what game companies do, and even with motion control, I don't think they'd ever kill off traditional controllers. That'd kill the ENTIRE gaming industry of all it's most loyal consumers, and take all the nerds and make them charge the studios, first Microsoft, then Sony and we'd end at Nintendo

The reason is that even with the motion controls, controllers make the game feel the needed not real. If we're doing the actions it takes to do sexual things or kill people without the controller (as Natal will no doubt someday do), then all the people who are on the Micheal Atkinson (or how every you spell his name) will charge (but since it's him and his mom we can guess that it'd be more like a brisk, angry walk) to the media stands and say "Video games are evil and we can't allow them" and people would sue and things would hit the fan.

So my guess is that Natal is going to cause Microsoft a LOT of problems down the road...

 

[x0ny]

Well let's keep our fingers crossed the keyboard and mouse won't be replaced by controllers. I'm skeptical that will happen, but a little part of me is still worried.