This year’s Game Developers Conference will see the introduction of the PlayStation Motion Controller and our newest peek at the PlayStation 3 peripheral, the subject a newly added session at the annual gathering of developers.
The Sony-sponsored lecture will be our first new look at the hardware since Tokyo Game Show, when Sony showed off Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition with the motion controller. The device, which may ultimately named Arc but probably not Gem, will be given some developer-targeted attention.
According to the description, the “soon to be released Motion Controller for PlayStation 3 will allow developers to create new game play experiences, by allowing players to interact with their console in high definition using their bodies.” How that will be done will be explained by David Coombes and Kirk Bender of SCEA, who will hopefully explain why we have to wait for the new controller.
Keep an eye out in March for our coverage of GDC 2010.
Introducing the PlayStation 3 Motion Controller [GDC via Gamasutra][image credit]
weresmurf
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 9:42 AMThe pre-order bonus being a free bottle of astro-glide…. I swear it still looks like something a woman would buy at a sex shop!
boo goose
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 10:08 AMYeah, I’m sensing a REZ remake too. IT looks exactly like the one they had in Oprah one time, the magic wand or something??
Keg
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 10:42 AMIt looks like a modified version of the fleshlight…
Dr_Stef
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 10:47 AMI was just about to say: I cannot be the only one out there who thinks this thing looks like a
‘self-pleasuring device’.
Nath
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 4:12 PMI didn’t see it before, but now all that’s all I see.
JJ
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 10:56 AMSony’s push to excite more females into buying a PS3.
Stephen Whatman
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:03 AMThe funny thing is that my friends always complained that the wiimote looked like a dildo.
I sense a trend. :|
warcroft
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:59 AMMaybe because women cant grasp controllers. They need to grasp something long and hard.
That, they can handle.
You see. . . guys are experienced with controllers because we’re use to pushing a womans buttons.
Darius
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 4:26 PMthat sort of talk makes it sounds like you dont
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:18 AMIt seems to be something for everyone. Some are thinking vibrator. I & others thought fleshlight. How can it fail? ;)
FatShady
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 12:27 PMYou can acheive the same resuls with Microsoft’s Natal – it just let’s you use your hands!!! (lol)
Steve
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 12:35 PMI know the similarities have been pointed out already, but when I saw the thumbnail before the heading for this article I honestly though, “When did Kotaku start featuring sex toys?”
With the Wiimote it was kind of a running joke, but its squared edges ensured that it kept that vital distance between controller and vibrator. This, on the other hand… it’s not even a joke. The colour of the– what do we call the thing on top, the “knob?” – does very little to help the situation.
Jo
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM“I know the similarities have been pointed out already, but when I saw the thumbnail before the heading for this article I honestly though, “When did Kotaku start featuring sex toys?”
Lol I did the same thing, quite a double take.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 1:26 PMI wonder if it vibrates too
Thomas Ingram
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM“by allowing players to interact with their console in high definition using their bodies.”
I like the sound of that!
ohhhhhhhh yeah.
706
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 9:12 PMAs much as I am more of an Xbox fan than a Playstation fan, I think I prefer the look of this too natal. It sounds like Natal is going to be, or at least trying to be a lot more revolutionary, but I just feel so much more could be accomplished with the combination of an input device and motion capture. Even if the input device was only used to navigate menus. I’m sure natal will have some form of motion control menus but I can’t see it being as quick and simple as a remote.