PlayStation Move or Kinect

PlayStation Move or X-Box Kinect

  • PlayStation Move

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  • Kinect

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  • I'll stick with my Wii

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Genkina Hito

Genkina Hito

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So I was on my way to my favourite cinema when I rounded a corner and saw a big truck. Not just any truck but a rather colourful one. One emblazoned with many colourful images. These images were PlayStation emblems and screenshots from games. This immediately piqued my interest so I wandered over to it.

Now what could Sony be doing… except demonstrating the PlayStation Move!!!

Just to get pictures and a hands on would make my day but alas it was not to be.

I asked a chap in a GAME uniform and he said that it was a press event. With that I departed and watched two films.

Anyway, here's a question for the forum:

Move or Kinect.

I have to say that PlayStation Move impresses me the most. It does what the Wii does but seems to advance on the concepts pioneered by Nintendo.

The controllers for Move, from all reports, seem to be well-designed with buttons and rumble features. Most importantly it is implemented well in the games (the most important part) and what games there are.

It’s got Wii imitations and shovel-ware but it is also being implemented in games being released right now like RUSE (a RTS) where navigating the menu wasn’t as solid as a mouse and keyboard but better than a control-pad.

The fact that the PlayStation Move has controllers is important because it allows developers an easier time developing games and creating game mechanics compared to the controller-less Kinect. For example:

Forza – People who played the game at E3 were impressed that you could imitate driving but were less impressed by the fact that players’ couldn’t control acceleration or deceleration (that was left to the game).

Anyway we’re also looking at Killzone 3, Heavy Rain and SOCOM supporting Move.

The fact that Move has controllers is probably the reason why Kinect hasn't got anything other than party-games and I’m not sure how designers might be able to make Gears of War 3 work.

Overall, Kinect looks like a nice toy but not a serious gaming device.
 
Yeah, I'm all for the Move. When they both demonstrated them at the E3, I was so much more taken by the Move, although the Kinect seemed rather novel and has benefits (not really for gaming, but I sure would like to use a menu with my hands). I haven't looked at all the games, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to get Sorcery.

There are no doubt drawbacks with both, though, so I'm still playing the waiting game.
 
The way i've seen it for a long time is: Playstation move = Wii Motion Plus, and for that, it does look nice. But will i buy it? I dunno, it's all dependent on what games come out of it. However! I can safely say this, i will not be buying Kinect at all.

Kinect is meant to be the next step in gaming according to microsoft, it's more like "this is the nect step in socialising via the xbox". I see no use for it in terms of gaming whatsoever, especially for the hardcore gamers, which if memory serves, both the Xbox and Playstation have been aimed at for a while. They really should have gone more for the same idea as Nintendo and Sony, but they didn't. Instead, they saw their foot, and shot it.

I'll stick to me Wii for now, since that's been working with the technology since day one of this gen, and maybe look into Sonys iteration in a year or so, once they've got their footing. Microsoft however, can just watch as another Kinect doesn't sale, hah.
 
if i wanted interaction i would play my Wii, not my Xbox

i just want to sit down and be lazy to be honest with you guys, and that, in my opinion, is what gaming is all about
 
Do you people play Wii's? I can't be alone in finding them an struggle to do the easiest of tasks - when your using it like a Wii and not a GameCube, anyway. The Wii Motion Plus did crap all to help anything. I am a fan of the thing, though.
 
If I had to buy one it would be the Move since it seems better designed than the others and has a novel gimmicky lightbulb which appeals to my inner child. We gave our Wii away and never really noticed it was gone since. I'm not planning on picking up any of them though. Motion control isn't really compatible with the kind of game I like.

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Kinect will be a total bomb imo. Nothing about it looks like a good idea, from basing games around the tech to the price to anything. Move could be the best of them, but if the fourth option had been "who cares" I would have gone with that.
 
I cannot believe someone has actually voted for Kinect... Slip of the finger one would assume.

I'll get Move, but probably not Kinect. Kinect has nice technology, but it will not work well for anything but party game shovelware.
 
Voted for the Wii. Can't say I'm really all that bothered with motion control but if push comes to shove I would put it like this,

Wii>Move>Kinect.

Motion control was included from the start with the Wii whereas the PS3 & 360 are including it as an afterthought due to it's success on the Wii

Of the three I would not get Kinect at any cost as I don't intent to buy a Microsoft console - I wasn't interested in the majority of games on the XBox and it is the same this gen with the 360 (I'm not a big fan of first person shooter/driving games).
 
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