PS3, Xbox 360 Motion Controller Rumors Spread

DO NOT WANT!

Especially on my 360.

They already made it for kiddies with the damn avatar crap.

Now motion controls?

Next we know, 360 ads will be showing housewifes doing some exercises using 360 ... and that will be the day I sell my Elite.

Microsoft's version would seem to jive with what we heard right before NXE came out. Some bloke(from Microsoft? I don't remember) was talking about a Minority Report style interface. The idea behind what Microsoft could be doing with a full body system is head and shoulders above a motion controller. Guess we'll see at E3.

Motion controllers work very well as a marketing tool to get people to buy your console but are utterly worthless as a control mechanism. Everyone buys a Wii attracted by the idea of motion control but then finds it's rubbish and never plays on the console after the first few days.

I fail to see how this will benefit Sony since the Wii is already heavily associated with motion control in the public conscious and anyone who wants motion control will get a Wii so it won't get any extra sales. All it'll result in is a load of shitty Wii type mini games appearing on the PS3 that nobody will play.

As for the Microsoft thing, it sounds like it'll work exactly the same as the Eye Toy which is also crap. I'm all up for change when it's something positive like the introduction of the analogue stick but these new control mechanisms are crap and have produced nothing but crappy mini games.

Please, no more!

Kinda funny I just now read this after I got done bitching at the Nintendo forum mods for deleting a post because I was helping someone out and mentioned homebrew and the legality of roms/emulators.

If they do start selling Xbox or PS3 motion games, I hope they are actually some good games that hardcore players will enjoy. I've been loyal to Nintendo for far to long without even owning a Wii yet, but I'll probably pass on that now.

If that ridiculous looking thing is a controller they can keep it. The Wii's motion control is alright to good for me but I still don't think these kind of controllers are ready for prime time.

motion controllers rock

I'd would settle for a couple light-gun games on 360. I haven't played one since the old arcade days.

I want the head tracking the guys were experimenting with implemented in COD6.
That would be fan-fucking-tastic.

The 360 doesn't need motion control, it needs a REAL pointer, not some toy thumb-stick masquerading as a pointer, and a poor one at that...

please no

A full-body motion sensing device without any controller in your hand sounds very exiting. I never gave a tough to consoles, but if they don't manage to screw this one up, and make it work, i just might get a post PlayStation 2 console.

I am going to say that this isn't bullshit and that we will see motion controls from both Sony and Microsoft at this E3. Neither company's leadership will be able to resist the Wii's runaway success/profits. Thus they will play the "me too/follow the leader" game. The allure of money aside, motion control really is the future and now that someone (i.e. Nintendo) really made it work the race is on to define and control what will be played up as the next big leap in user interfaces. I don't know how Microsoft could pull off a full body motion sensing device and make it affordable but I look forward to it. Besides, as a PC gamer, I despise the gimpsticks/gamepad anyway.

Question for the engineers on this board...how much computing power/resources would a console or PC have to dedicate to processing the input from a full body motion sensing device? Would that keep a core or three busy full time?

I'm not sure if it's the graphics or the motion controls, but I hate playing the wii.

Meh.

I don't think a webcam and an LED would be more accurate then the wii. The wiimote is a small infrared camera which tracks the sensor bars infrared lights. Also pretty sure the camera has a better resolution and refresh rate then a webcam.

But sense its a rumor who knows what they actually have working (if it exists at all). Could just be the way the person who saw it is describing it.