Sony MOVES to the beat

Last night, Sony debut its new Playstation Motion controls, formerly Arc, now known as MOVE. When I first thought about Sony's motion controls, I thought to myself "Finally, something to compete against the Wii for once." Because in this generation, HD Gaming is pushed aside in favor of the Wii's motion controls. Nearly every year, the Wii has been crushing the 360 and PS3 with Waggle, Shovelware, and appearances on talk shows like the Colbert Report.

But what I thought was Sony's ticket to taking first place from the Wii, turns out to be what I didn't anticipate. This Engadget article has me in a knot

# The gladiator game is about as fun as it looks, we'll have video after the break momentarily. Unfortunately, while it's less of a defined experience than something like the sword game on Wii Sports Resort, you're still working through a library of sensed, pre-defined actions instead of a true 1:1 fighting game with simulated physics. Not that it isn't possible with PlayStation Move, just that it's not this.
# The lightness of the controllers means we might be feeling less of that Wiimote fatigue, always a good thing! There's an aspect of the controller that feels a little cheap, but at the same time we wouldn't call it fragile.
# As far as we can tell, the control scheme for Socom 4 is quite similar to dual-controller shooter setups on the Wii, with the camera moving based on your aiming cursor hitting the edge. It's hard to see this as the preferred hardcore setup, but we're told it's configurable, so we'll try and see what else is on offer.
# The system seemed to have a bit of trouble understanding the configuration of our body in a swordfighting stance: even though we selected "left handed," it was putting our sword arm forward instead of our shield. Right-handers didn't seem to have similar problems, and we're sure this will be ironed out in time, but it certainly shows that the controllers aren't magical in their space-detection prowess.

This bad news only means one thing: Nintendo has taken over Sony. They have implemented their Waggle into the Playstation 3 and now we may start getting more shovelware on the Playstation 3. And with Microsoft implementing its own Motion Controls on the 360 and PC, it won't be long until Casual gaming takes over and we give up our rights to play a glut of First Person Shooters and Hollywood-like Movies.

Works Cited Engadget

You can see the Playstation Move Trailer at Joystiq

Note: We may see the NPD results of last month later today. Stay tuned.