I’ve been dying to use that play on words ever since I heard that Playstation was making a Wii Remote equivalent.
So I obviously haven’t played with this yet but I figure I’m an authority enough after looking at the picture and skimming the basics of the article to comment. I look at this picture from Kotaku and I have to ask myself a few questions:
- Would I buy one?
- Do I care about it?
- Does the ball thing look stupid?
After asking myself these questions the next reasonable thing to do was answer them:
- No probably not, I mean I don’t even have a headset yet or more importantly to this case an eye thing. You know what I’m talking about the camera thingy you can get for the PS3, I’ve completely forgotten the name now but it doesn’t matter because I don’t have one and will probably not be buying one.
- I think it’s interesting and all but frankly the whole motion controller thing is leaving me a little cold. The best controller game on the Wii right now is Mario Bros and that’s only because you turn the remote and use it like a real controller, none of this flailing your arms rubbish. I just could not be arsed. Give me a a normal controller ‘enhanced’ with motion tracking and I’ll be a happy little gamer.
- It looks painful to replace when I smack it off by mistake one day. I just dodged the question there, it actually looks stupid but I’m told it is remarkably powerful and accurate and not at all like roll on deodorant.
Look I just don’t care about it, I like playing games using the controller and find it annoying when I have to perform special moves with my arms. I don’t mind if they want to be in this market but I need to have the option not to use it. Another thought I have whilst looking at it is that unlike the Wii Remote it looks hard to embed into stuff, like swords or guns etc, I’m okay with that because the Wii Wheel is stupid.
What do you guys all think about it? Excited? Don’t care?
