Playstation Move and the Playstation Move Subcontroller and other Sony GDC news

We were all expecting Sony to come out swinging with its Playstation Arc at their GDC presser, then Sony President, SCE Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida trout slapped us with “Playstation Move”. This seems less catchy than Arc to me, it’s a handheld motion controller and move makes it kind of sound like you move while using it, as opposed to just using a limb, still, they’re Sony and they do things their own way. For a moment I thought Shu had said “Playstation Moo” and I was thinking Moo? Seriously? Ahh Wii, Moo, it’s not like silly names aren’t already in existence, Moo would have got a lot of jokes made about it, “it plays like a cow” probably being one. Apparently “from the tiniest twitch, to the strongest punch” is just how good Playstation Move will be. Shockingly Sony even applauded Nintendo’s efforts in the area of motion control, no Natal mentioned of course.

The Playstation move will be offered in different packs, the Playstation Move itself, packaged with the Playstation Eye and also larger packs featuring consoles. The started kit featuring Playstation Eye. Marketing on it will be massive when it releases later this year.

Almost at the end of the Sony GDC press conference and it’s onto SOCOM 4 which will use the Playstation move and the “sub controller”. This add on with analogue stick will allegedly be “a great example of how hardcore games can become more accessible to mainstream audiences”. Control camera and crosshairs in game are controlled with the motion controller, whilst controlling the character with the left stick (a controller in each hand). More press blurb states it was a simple transition to put the motion control into SOCOM 4, thus suggesting there’s little overheads and it’s simple technically. Just of note, he definitely said there would be additional “accessories” for the Playstation Move (plural), so whether that was a slip of the tongue or we can expect some other add-ons is anyone’s guess. Mentioned in passing also was 3D gaming, which will apparently be coming to PS3 this year.

Via [LesbianGamers].