Peter Moore on the state of EA Sports, motion control

That pic reminds me of banner ads...

next gen power glove

Man, i miss when he worked for MS. Tattoos and all that, the guys at E3 just dont have the same oomph as him.

Sweet, sweet Photoshopping effects.

He is scary....

Of course metacitic scores aren't relevant to the sales of wii titles. 90% of them are complete garbage, but still sell.

I can't imagine using any of the motion controllers for anything other than boxing and golf. Maybe baseball with swinging a bat but... there's no real application for much of anything else. Football? I don't see how I'll be running a route, throwing a football, or doing anything with motion controls. Soccer? Pretty much the same thing.

I want to be excited for this tech, but I don't see the application in the majority of sports.

The problem I have with most of the EA Sports titles is that they have become stale and boring. The NFL is very exciting and the games are intense but Madden itself doesn't give you that feeling (not me anyway) and I'm a huge football fan and have played Madden every year religiously.

Anyone remember this commercial? This gets me so pumped up for football season: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55BZ2gSsSmY

Madden doesn't give me that feeling but there is a new football game coming out that uses the Euphoria engine (no canned animations) and has a similar intensity to the real game (and that commercial!).

This is some footage from E3 of the new game called backbreaker :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idN8rTab0ws
http://www.backbreakergame.com/

I've heard that EA might actually be publishing this game but I don't know the details. I know Natural Motion didn't want to partner with EA but I read something about how they got an offer they couldn't refuse. Maybe someone who knows more about the game than I do could follow up with something.

Anyway ... my point is that Back Breaker is more of the real thing than Madden will ever be at this point. Imagine that backbreaker game with the NFL liscense ... I guess it won't happen unless EA purchases (if they already haven't) Natural Motion. I've also heard Activision could be the publisher of the game. I'm not sure to be honest and I don't know if it's been made public.

EA needs to innovate and rebuild some of these franchises from the ground up (especially NBA Live) because they have become stale and marginal upgrades of an already flawed game isn't going to cut it.

This is the one reason why I don't like the Wii. I keep telling myself that these things are truly "accessories" and that the consumer doesn't really require them. However the trouble with that is that

1) Companies like EA do everything in their power to disabuse customers of that notion. They go out of their way to promote their various toys are being essential to the "fun" factor of w/e game

2) The public right off the bat assumes that these toys are necessary and as such some people are resistant to spending money on the game because they fear they are going to be sucked into buying ridiculous expensive accesories on TOP of the expensive game.

Unfortunately the idea of motion controllers may lead to it's abuse by all these 3rd party companies. Hopefully though they draw the line somewhere and strike a balance.

you should see the gloves that gamestop started selling when punch out came out.

http://www.n4g.com/News-330338.aspx

The buttons are completely asthetic, and the gloves just sit on top of your hand, so you can grip the wiimote.

I wish someone with some say would address the mess that NCAA Football has become. It seems to get worse and worse every year because they seem to be building off of a flawed foundation this generation.

I wish they'd release cricket games in the states. I spent 3 years in england during my middle school years and played cricket a lot. It's like getting an at-bat in baseball, but it lasts for an hour. Fun game (the length of the international matches is pretty amazing though- wouldn't fly in the US television market.)

finally someone who agrees that a game in FIRST PERSON would be sweet with motion control, i mean motion control and the whole idea of it has been around forever but never with anything but 3rd person games

pee ... terr ... moore, its in the game!