Sony's Koller calls 'motion control, 3D gaming, PSN' focal points of 2010

*motion specific controls*

You'll have to find me first.

Do you not know who I am? I live in the fucking dirt for fuck's sake...I'm EVERY where...

/scratches chin

Hmm...

please put said fight on paperview, i will pay.

1983 was pretty bad.

I'm frustrated with it because there's no point to it. There's no benefit to motion controls over regular controls, it's just a different way to do the same damn thing we've always done (and in most cases, a worse way).

As for 3D gaming, you want me to go out and buy a ridiculously expensive TV just to support pretty pictures popping out at me? Like someone said below, it's going to be the year of the pointless gimmick.

It's not as if they can only do one thing at a time...just because they are making Motion Controlled games for one audience doesn't mean they aren't going to deliver for the hardcore gamer....2010 will probably go down as one of the best years in gaming. Sony's exclusive lineup is remarkable:

God War 3
Final Fantasy
Heavy Rain
Final Fantasy XIV
Yakuza 3
Gran Turismo 5
M.A.G.
Mod Nation Racers
White Night Chronicles
DC Universe Online (Maybe)
The Agency (Maybe)
The Last Guardian (Hopefully)

Besides if they put an analog stick on that motion controller...great things could happen in the right developers hands. But we probably wont see any thing for the hardcore till 2011

tmacairjordan87

you can get a 3d tv for as low as $899 for a 60 inch wd-60737
and as low as $3,200 for an 82 inch wd-82737

hardly ridiculously expensive

Besides final fantasy not being exclusive, I only see 3 games on that list that look promising. It's going to be not that great of a year for ps3 next year :\

@ gamedude - I just bought a TV, no way in hell I'm buying another for some passing fad like 3D (especially considering 3D tech is rapidly evolving, why buy into it so early?!?). I'm going down like my grandparents. Keep the same blasted television until it craps out on me or something truly better comes along (Colour > 1080p > Smellovision).

Damnit, Sony, why can't you every figure out how to plays to your strengths?

At this moment in time, Sony has two very, very good things going for them:

1) In the period June 2009 - June 2010, Sony boasts the best core-gamer software lineup of the three console makers (an absolute miracle, considering their financial challenges to date)

2) At $300, Sony is now offering a reasonably priced media magic box for all of the A/V enthusiasts. It only does everything!

These are the strengths that Sony should be leveraging over the next year to build up their install base, and dig out of their money hole. Instead, Koller says their three priorities are... what?

1) Motion Controller. Look, there's a case to be made for this, but if you're going to promote retard controllers, you have to go full retard, like Microsoft is with Natal. The way they are half-assing this feels like Playstation Home, where they invest a lot of money into it but don't follow through hard enough to build up support.

2) 3-D games. Remember back in 2006, when PS3 pushed Blu-Ray about 3 years ahead of its time, before there was any consumer adoption of the standard? Remember when Sony lost one billion dollars trying to push an expensive new standards that consumers weren't ready for yet? I don't know why that suddenly came to mind.

3) PSN. You've got to support this, but this is not one of your core strengths. Sony still has not figured out how to fund this. They partly rely on pushing infrastructure costs to software developers, and will partly rely on increased consumer fees in the future. But if Sony feels that PSN is positioned to be a major player in the media download space like iTunes or Netflix, they are misreading the marketplace.

I thought Nintendo had already been kiddie friendly? Or did i misinterpret what everyone was bitching about all of last generation?

If anything, 2010 seems to affirm that Nintendo can pursue a balanced strategy, and do it well. They're releasing (and localizing) a sequel to Sin and Punishment, for instance, an impossibly niche game, and an impossibly niche game that will benefit broadly from motion controls.

Incorrect: the very fact that The Last Guardian is coming out invalidates all shovelware.

Basically, if 2010 was a JRPG, The Last Guardian would cast an area-of-effect spell for 100 damage to anything caught in the area (area is equal to 6 months in either direction), and we all know that shovelware averages about 50 health.

It's a conspiracy with Johnson & Johnson Co. to sell more Tylenol.

I would just like another year like this past one. LBP, infamous, KZ2, U2...I thought this was a great year.

they should continue with their strengths and not nintendo's strengths and some 3d fad.

It could be camera based, but I see it being simpler than that -- Replacing Nathan Drake, Solid Snake, and Desmond Miles with your 'Home' avatar. In fact, when thinking about Naughty Dog's impressive lip syncing technology, it could be rather cool...

I think maybe "placing you as a consumer into the game physically" is actually about combining the 3D and Motion control technologies to create a feeling of actually "touching" the game world. That sounds more along the lines of "the Holy Grail of gaming." That's just sci-fi-cool. Or maybe it's just a gimmick.

You won't. PSN will -never- be subscription based. What Sony will do is create some subscription based services like game/movie rentals ala Qore.

They mean real sports, not Wii Sportz. You know, good HD versions of Madden?

What will the wand be able to do that the wiimote or natal couldn't? For sports I mean.

Madden's suckiness on Wii has nothing to do with the controls (which isn't to say that the controls have been the best for Madden Wii, but it's irrelevant to the point), it's EA's strange idea that Wii owners don't want features at all, so that they came trim out virtually everything but quickplay like they did with Madden 10

I'm confused by that part. Nintendo dominated the family games market, and Microsoft pretty much has the shooter market. Look at MW2, it sold twice as much on the xbox. I don't even know where this is coming from considering sony's exclusive list for next year. GoWIII, Heavy Rain, GT5 don't fit anywhere in those catagories. MAG is a shooter and while it may be good I'm really not expecting it to be a runaway success.

Amen Chopper... amen.

If you think Sony only rips people off, please shoot yourself in the head now. Thank you.

He didn't say that, he said Sony hasn't done anything innovative, and he's kinda right when you think about it. Wii is obvious, and 360 created achievements and refined xbox live into the online powerhouse that it is today. Sony just copied everyone.

I guess you could say Home is innovative, but it's also completely boring and terrible.

It's pretty obvious you're about 13 years old.

Sony's motion controller is camera based and allows for 1-1 tracking, completely different from the Wii's system of sensors. I believe they were the first to offer full retail titles of current games on their online store, which was pretty innovative.

The PS2 was nothing innovating, but damn it rocked. It's all about the games dude, and Sony got it.

I kinda agree with you...Sony has been late to almost every party this gen. But like Apple, they usually don't invent anything new but they take what others have done and make them better. (usually). Although their hardware is/was innovative on its on. The PS3 is starting to show just how much above the curve it was as they others are starting to get a little long in the tooth.

And HOME does suck...but hey...somebody out there obviously loves it.

oh yeah tmac because the xbox totally invented online gaming for consoles, that is such a load of bullshit.

I think you're referring to the dreamcast, a failure of a system. Protip: You don't get credit for doing something first when you fail. Most famous inventors weren't the first to actually have their idea, but they were the first to get it right.

Actually, Sega NetLink for the Saturn was before the Dreamcast. And this is US only.