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.
Yup, a Wii sports kind of thing would be nice but I guess it wouldn’t attract your average wii gamer.
I hope we do get a dual shock, just split in half. Why, because then you would have a two purpose controller that works on motion only games AND standard games. That way, it would justify the price.
@vofescaflowne: see like i mean instead of a simple sports bundle, bundle the Arc with the complete versions of the E3 09′s demos along with 3 or 4 other games (which actually can be sports….i was just hoping that not ALL the games would be sports)
With that (the RTS tank game) id reach both the hardcore AND the casual. But yeah, i wasnt saying anything against a nice casual bundle, but they need like 1 or 2 little games for the core gamers as well. + the pricing of course!
@Dreamer_Lion: see now with the bundle i speak of, itll be sure to attract the Wii gamers. They’ll see how damn precise tthe Arc is, along with some innovative games or applications (ie the block demo at E3 09)
about the DS dealio…itd be AWESOME to implement it in the Arc! i just hope they dont wait months later THEN put the rumble into the newer Arc models :\. But think about it: Heavy Rain was really great, and the DS3 set the mood in beautifully, with a controller in both hands, im sure devs will be able to make some truly realistic feeling games (what i just said is worded oddly…..meh)
but yeah, rumble would be AWESOME….actually, itd be nice if they patched HR to be compatible with the Arc!
copy copy copy! sony will always copy what n does! damn sony can never let n by them shelf w/were they go really. sony suck! these are the same company that talked shit about n wiimote and name but now that n doing good, they decide to copy there route! hell w/u sony and all the sony fanboys out there because u all no u did talk smack about wii and its wiimote but now soon u’ll be hold a wiimote copy cat n ur hands. suckers! thats why sony is n last place cos it dont no where to go n the video game world any more, all they do is copy and turn it around to make it there own and try to inovate!
i tried 2 imagine the control layout and it looks complicated but i want 2 proven wrong and see wat it really looks like by picture and not describetion sorry 4 spelling
LOL @ neo
wow dood learn2grammar/spell. it was a bit hard to read through all your rubbish but meh, its all good. I love how these ignorant bastards generalize all of us as sony fanboys LOL
well anyways everyone copies from eachother…its just the way things go.
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I can’t wait to use this accurate baby O My GOD Sounds great.
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Wii gimmick done well. Way to go.
Hate the Wii control because it’s unacurate. Can’t really say I’m damn excited about this though.
And neo, shove that Nunchuk up yours if you love it so much. Probably will give you more pleasure than playing with it.
omg i cant wait
I really hate this sloppy journalism displayed right here. Nothing was “revealed” at all, this is a rumor and nothing more. The deceiving headline was probably written that way just generate traffic. The author acts like the NeoGAF post is fact. I hope all the authors on this site aren’t this bad.
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None of this matters if there isn’t any compelling software to back it up, so I’m trying to reserve judgment on both Sony’s doo-hickey and Natal until I see what games will launch with them. Though I’ve gotta say, so far both just seem like “Me too!” gimmicks.
Now I just want to post this to show that not only were we right to report on this story from NeoGAF, we were the first too. This story has since been reported on by VG247, TheSixthAxis, TechRadar, MCV, Gizmodo, Product-Reviews, Destructoid, Spong, CVG and others.
Not only was PS Uni a day before all of these folks, we brought you the rumour of the ‘nunhuck’ add-on in the middle of last month – a headline these websites are only just approaching.
So, hopefully you can see you’re in the right place for the exclusive news that makes its way around the web hours later =)
@ Neo Seriously, this place is for mature discussions, we don’t want some kid that never grew up yet to run his immature mind across our screens.
@Thorzilla Don’t even retaliate, your just stooping down to his immature level.
So in response to Dreamer Lion’s post , I believe there is a motion controller idea on youtube, where the dualshock 3 is actually slip in half and it was used as a motion controller, it was a pretty sick idea, If I can find the video then I would gladly share it with your guys.
@Patrick: the University is very well connected as far as I know. ;]
@Moocows: sorry I was just leaving that comment as an I don’t care.
I like the sound of this numbchuck thing. Even with a good motion controller u still need buttons to do certain actions and with both together i can see the wand working well and hopefully as the source says very accurate in timing and precsion will mean it will be awesome
@Peter – We presented this as a rumour a month ago and again highlighted that this was not confirmed in this article, as well as explaining why this is now closer to truth (plus we happen to know more than we let on in this article):
“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.”
We will find out in the next couple of days at GDC, so feel free to talk us down when/if this turns out to be false. And as previously stated, the rest of the internet followed this article, believing its validity and the source’s sincerity.
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@Patrick Steen
Is the fact that NeoGAF is so strict the reason why this is taken so seriously from that forum or does the user in question already have some sort of reputation for leaking information? Not that I’m doubting it, in fact it pretty much makes sense for them to release it, but I’m just wondering what caused this article to even go up in the first place. Surely there must be a lot of rumors running around that place.