January 9, 2007
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//Sony Gets Emmy
I was notified at work today by a fellow gamer that Sony's SixAxis Motion-Sensing Controller was awarded the Emmys earlier today. He was on a rampage about Nintendo not getting the award with its remote-like controller instead. My cowroker is a Nintendo fanboy. So naturally, he neglected anything that was ever negative about the Big N and will only talk about the "success" of Wii, Nintendo's current system. The success, however, is really a temporary lead created by a shortage of Sony's Playstation 3, and a gimmicky motion sensing remote, which every misinformed gamer out there is swearing that Sony ripped off Nintendo's idea.
I believe, however, that the motion sensing ability alone is not what won the award for the Sony's controller. The overall ergonomics of the controller's design, from the dual analog stick to the comfort of holding it for a long period of time were all part of the award consideration. Afterall, it's not like motion sensing technology is invented for the first time or anything. As for the thought of Sony copying Nintendo with the motion sensing option for the controller: 1. Big N didn't invent motion sensing technology either. 2. One particular game, WarHawk, was in development for a long time, and it couldn't possibly be implementing motion sensing control at such a late stage. 3. Just because Sony revealed its finalized controller after Nintendo did with its controller doesn't mean Sony just thought of the use of it after seeing Nintendo displaying it. 4. When Sony first annouced the PS3, it announced that it planned to implement motion sensing technology as an option. Nintendo at the time had revealed nothing about their system.
Just because we learned about B after A, it doesn't mean A came before B.
Comments (2)
actually, the developer of warhawk admitted that they were presented with the motion sensing controller from Sony a couple weeks prior to E3. That is why it was the only ps3 game out of the handful that used the technology. And during e3 2006, people who played warhawk felt that the motion sensing controls were very responsive. As for the wii, they had 20 playable games at e3 that fully utilizes the motion sensing technology for multiple genres of games.
When you compare the wii and ps3, you have to admit that one fully rely on motion sensing (Wii) while the other only use it in a couple of games (PS3), you have to wonder why ps3 won over wii.
It's also the fact that sony announced their motion sensing control after nintendo and they actually made it their highlight of their e3 conference, made them look like copy cats.
hehe Happy New year Henry =D -Linda
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