'Arc' lives on in PlayStation Move's logo

An EKG? Hmm...if only there was a way for it to sense vitality...

Nah, who would be crazy enough to do that?

Personally, I hope for really good fitness software for the PS3. I use Yourself Fitness (with my PS2 compatible PS3) and would love to move on to something newer.

This name is a marketing dream if you're targeting those folks who bought Wiis because they think video games are too physically static. A lot of people do not use their PS3s to game but would use them to fashionably exercise.

Has anyone actually made that comparison?

Yes, the letter A looks a lot like the letter R. Especially when written whimsically. IT also looks like an M when you add another hump, etc etc. Letter based logos look a lot alike because they are a lot alike.

Yes, people have made that comparison. I was hesitant to name my source at first, but it's 4chan's /v/ board. Many people were mentioning it. I had to get out of there after a while. There's only so much of that place you can take for a given time, especially after a night like this.

LOL. Well, there's always someone complaining about something. This is a lot like the wiimote in ways that don't really require "letters look similar!" complaints, though. I guess I should be glad that's all 4chan is up to. Given that this device is phallic, I'm sure they will come up with something more creative soon.

I keep looking at the official playstation blog and marveling at how the comments are 99% complaints. As soon as the de jour issue is resolved, no one says thanks and they move on to some additional crisis.

I don't really care that Sony is following Nintendo. They should... Nintendo had a good idea.

Oh, don't worry, one of the first threads started featured an image of a couple ladies holding them like a bow and arrow, along with the text, "It looks like a vibrator." I mean, I guess you can't expect much from that place.

It's still there. It's just usually grey (unlike the colorful PS1 logo) so it's not as noticable.

It's amazing to me that most of the time a company runs into a patent troll or a trademark problem, MS is somehow involved. But I think they have a valid trademark for their mouse. And as much as I think MS has behaved poorly (much worse than Sony or Nintendo in the console wars), their Arc line of mice is excellent and is a better fit for the name than Sony's new control.

Sony dropped the ball on this name (not a big deal), not MS. I'm more concerned with the "gimp the PS3 version of the game" like Capcom noted and normal observation verified. IF you want to bash MS, just look up SCO. Or Immersion. This isn't the best issue to worry about.

Also, I think Sony being a little more obvious is a great move. These "It only does everything" commercials beat the hell out of the Lynch ones, and letting prospective wii gamers with a need for a blu-ray player know about this functionality requires minimal interpretation. Keep it simple. Include a bunch of minigames which imply atheticism and exercise like Nintendo did.

MS employs more people for filing banal and silly patents than Sony employs for their entire Playstation operation. You'll never beat them on this battlefield.

Come on really, you gonna blame MS having the name arc trademarked.maybe if the R&D dept did it's job this would not have occured.move is way better than female sex toy .

I prefer the original xbox icon. green on grey doesn't look as good as on black