Sony’s full fledged answer to motion-control gaming beyond the Sixaxis will be on its way to the PlayStation 3 later this year with a healthy number of exclusive games. The system will make use of the PlayStation Eye, what we’ve previously nicknamed the ‘Wand’ and an additional wireless controller that’s similar to the Wii’s ‘nunchuck’. We can now reveal the button configuration of each controller within the ‘PlayStation Arc’ set.
You may remember dual-wielding of the PlayStation Wand during Sony’s first presentation and later Capcom using the Wand and a Dualshock controller to play a motion-control version of Resident Evil 5. These occurences have apparently influenced Sony’s decision to produce a ‘nunchuck-like’ controller to support the Wand and make their answer to the Wii more useful for party and hardcore games.
We brought the rumour of this addition to you last month and now we can contribute the button configuration of both the Wand and ‘nunchuck’. The updated information comes from the same NeoGAF poster and though his comments cannot be taken as outright confirmation, he’s digging himself a very big hole on the forum if he’s lying. Ichinisan claims that he has seen the latest pictures of the PlayStation Arc and describes them in the following paragraphs:
“Nunchuck has an analog stick at the front, below that X and O and below that a D-pad. Underneath is L1 and L2. Its actually long, not like the Wii Nunchuk.
“As for the Wand it has one very big button on top and then all four facebuttons (X,O,Square and Triangle) and underneath is a big trigger called T.”
The doubling up of X and O across both contraptions is presumed to allow gamers to play with just the Wand for certain games. He further comments on the device’s responsive as heard from a developer contact:
“It is highly responsive and accurate (the quote I heard was ‘Like a quick Wii remote that’s right every time!’)”
Since these photo’s are now trickling out from Sony, we’ll make a prediction that we’ll see their full colours at the Game Developer’s Conference next week.
The user has grown respect over the past month on the forum and has much more to lose than to gain from revealing fake specs of a product that is to be revealed to the development community at GDC this week.
Wow, looks like we have our very own Wii fanboy troll in Neo on this site. Seriously, i know the Wii has a ridiculous lack of AAA games but is this all you have to do with yourself? Freaking hillbilly. The Arc is the Wiimote done right, simple as that. Sony are showing that you can appeal to a wide audience AND have good games at the same time, something Nintendo completely failed to do with the Wii.
This is why Nintendo lost the last 2 generations – they don’t think long – term. The PS3 is going to last for at least another 6 years, the Wii is obsolete already.
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about neo: indeed, i would have to say the Arc is the Wii done right (as david macphail states), they already failed by having a gimmicky (enough for me to return the Wii) Wiimote and nunchuck sensor and having to patch it up with the MW+
and now the arc comes in and crushes all the MW+ had to offer.
meh
the only thing id want sony to do is make a 1st party …party game like smash bros! but then again their 1st party games arent as well known as Nintendos :\
Sam Fisher, Crash, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Sackboy, Jak and Daxter, and ummm…..thats all i can think of
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Well seems to be that source is right, PlayStation Move is out and fact are to be seen?
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