Professor Blackbuster Critic is back this week with an entirely new video and look at both Sony and Microsoft’s upcoming motion technology. While this topic has been beaten to death by many journalists around the industry, it’s never too late for a good debate over the two.
In this episode, BBC discusses which motion control has the most potential for gamers on an overall level. Don’t think he’s taking it easy on Sony either as the Professor points out a severe flaw that will prevent Sony’s motion technology from being successful. As always, feel free to comment below with your opinion and to debate other freely.
We’ve included the video below.
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December 18, 2009
Great vid BBC. Let the debates begin. To me it doesn’t matter which one’s better. Competition is good for both. So whether you’re a xbox 360 or ps3 gamer, each one will push the OTHER (NaTal or ps wand) to be better than their rival. So we all win. Right at the moment JMHO the ps wand is ahead.
@stika
I never said the demonstration of those games were phenomenal, just that they showed it can be done since you were complaining that they didn’t show anything on any known games. At E3 they didn’t, but they did afterwards so please stop complaining. Also as I stated earlier, the wand is still in development so control for actual character movement might change, who knows but I hope it does.
Another thing, about the bow not being able to move, that was obviously a minor glitch at the moment and also has nothing to do with precision. Aiming falls under precision, not movement.
I explained why the sword swing was impressive and cannot be done by the wii. Although it does have 1:1 now with the motion plus it still does not have the precision the PS3 has with the Eye-wand combo.
Anyone who was watching the demonstration of the wand, and anyone who has or played a wii long enough, can tell which is more precise.
Also just because Natal is using more cameras doesn’t mean it has high precision. It’s tracking much larger objects, whether it’s your whole arm or your whole body, while the Eye is only tracking that ball of light on the wand. In other words think of it this way, who has more of a successful chance of picking up a penny, a giant or a human? It’s an extreme example but I’m hoping it’ll put what I said into a better perspective for you.
@Fayt Saratome
I’m not trying to attack you or anything but that’s exactly my point. The IR is what is pointing, or in other words aiming. The Eye can detect the wand’s position more precisely than the motion bar can detect the wii mote’s IR, and since it can detect it better it can therefor follow it better giving it more accuracy while moving or remaining static. This is basically what I meant in what I said. I’m sorry for the confusion but I was extremely tired when I typed that and didn’t feel like going into further detail in that statement. I also felt that it would be understood but I should’ve just explained myself better lol.
Natal and the motion wand both have potential, but Microsoft should forget this ‘you are the controller’ nonsense ASAP.
To play shooters, to move around an environment, you need to have something to press.
Both systems should have a controller and body motion detection.
Imagine an FPS, you are near a corner of a wall, holding up your wand or remote or whatever to aim. You tilt your head to the side, and look around the corner. The effect would feel fantastic. Both systems are capable of this as long as Sony pay attention to the body position, and Microsoft decide to add a Wii style controller.
I think this is good for hardcore gamers too. I also own a Wii, and besides the below average graphics, CoD World at War Wii is one of the best FPS I have played on any system, period. Using motion controll to aim the gun is so much easier than PS3 or 360, and feels and looks so natural.
Any system that can give you a wand, head tracking, and a pair of 3D glasses exclusively will destroy the competition. Forget ‘You are the controller’, it will be ‘You are IN the game’
I think the PS wand will be cool, however when it comes to what natal can do, I think it has already won,
Also, we really need to wait until there are some Natal demos that are not staged.
The Milo one was obviously staged… he was looking directly at her, turning his face to the side, but TV images are on a 2D plain. This is an illusion to make the viewer (us) think that he is looking at her. If the presentation was for her benefit, not ours, he would look straight.
The Burnout presentation was the same. They reused the same crash clips for multiple players. It was obviously cut together, and I was surprised they did it so badly. If you see the Natal avatar presentation it is a joke, it keeps jumping around as it loses track of his position.
I’m not saying Natal is bad, I’m just saying that they haven’t proven it’s speed or accuracy yet. They have a year to speed it up, otherwise it won’t be that useful.
The wand demonstration was really impressive. As a Wii Motionplus user, I can really appreciate the speed and accuracy of it. Motionplus is good, but it’s a pain to keep recalibrating it every few minutes. Wii Sports Resort is still a great game, and I actually lost weight playing the sword fighting section.
I agree with the professor that PS3 wand NEEDS an analog stick, but please don’t put it on the wand itself. Nintendo had the right idea with the nunchuck. Sony can just develop a simple analog controller and sell it as a pair with the wand, because using DS3 in the other hand sucks big time
BBC FAIL in this vid
Prof. Truth didn’t upload his weekly vid. i think his is dead
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If Natal can prove that virtual gaming is possible i.e. pretending to run as if it were a treadmill, ducking and weaving like Police 911 or that boxing game from the arcades, throwing punching, not so sure about climbing unless you move your arms up and down. So it will be interesting if Microsoft can pull it off, but if it only brings the same old tired up games that wii started it will fail. Now the wand does it really need a joystick well it could mix in natal with wii i.e. running, throwing punches, etc. The jury still out it could go either way.
Good news guys Prof. Truth isn’t dead
but i think the dean is dead that’s why the site hasn’t been updated.
Good news guys the dean is alive
he updated the site yay. can’t wait to see Prof. Truth vids.
gamepro did an interview with john koller and sony is working on something just like natal but john koller said the ps3 version was more advanced and it havent been talked allot but if anyone else know more abaut this please message me
sorry for grammar issues
wow!!! i just found an link to the interview in english!
http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/213252/sony-talks-2010-project-natal-and-wii-are-going-to-have-trouble/
hey man thank for the vid, my xbox 360 just died as most do, im off to buy a ps3!!!!!!!
Great vid. I have the PS2 eyetoy, but for some reason the space needed for Natal didn’t occur to me lol. I guess if you go with the wands, you can be closer than Natal. I also didn’t quite notice the delay in Natal before. I noticed more things such as it having depth perception problems.
Also with a wand, to go ‘running about a map’ they could just put in tilt programming. Tilt the wand to far to the right, you run to the right.
Oh, one more thing, the PS2 eyetoy picks up my dog’s tail (my dog is a 10 lbs yorkie). If it can pick up his tail it can certainly pickup a finger. Now for multiple fingers, I don’t know. However since the PS2 eyetoy can do that, it’s not too far of a strech for me to imagine Natal picking up fingers.
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Its called playstation move now
Right about milo, my friends are trying to make natal seem better than sony move, and all they can say is MILO! why would i want to talk to someone in my screen? i have REAL FRIENDS. and i have a feeling that footballs games are really gonna cause some problems. i mean, cmon. if you want to do a really powerful shot, injury? i think so.