After a recent article speculating about the possible price of the Playstation Move, Gizmodo contacted Sony and asked them to clarify a few things about the Move, and how the “wands” and sub controllers actually connect to the PS3. Here is what Gizmodo was told by Sony.
Sony said, “Playstation Move doesn’t support 4 players in its full configuration”. A complete player needs at least TWO move wands, or ONE wand and ONE sub controller. So the Gladiator game in Sports Champions requires Two Wands for one player, but sony only allows 7 bluetooth connections at once. So the possibility of having 4 players with 8 wands is out of the question.
What makes this different from the Wii is that the nunchuck is wired to the wii-mote making both only one connection.
Sony also confirmed this: “Four PlayStation Move controllers can connect to a PS3 at one time (or two PlayStation Move Controllers and 2 PlayStation Move sub-controllers).”
This doesn’t mean there won’t be 4 players games for the Move, but they would only be using one wand per player. Which really hampers what developers have to work with.
It’s that time of year again, baseball season. The last few years the two baseball games available, Sony’s MLB The Show and the cross-platform MLB 2K have competed for your hard earned cash. Sony and The Show series have made some of the best sports games ever with all their little details that make the experience great. 2K has struggled the past few years with getting a good base to build the franchise off of. In 2K8 they introduced the pitching and hitting with the right stick. This wasn’t bad in 2K8, being that it was their first year with it. 2K9 however took a step backwards making the right stick controls way too easy. There were other issues like frame-rate and the lack of the My Player mode that the 2K basketball games and MLB The Show have. Were these things fixed?
Updated: According to Sony, you can only connect up to 4 Move wands at once. Sony confirmed that the move can only have up to 4 move wands at once connected or 2 wands and 2 sub controllers. Meaning you would only have the need for 2 Sub Controllers Max. If you buy the starter pack for 100 dollars (which comes with 1 wand, the eye, and a game). You only need to purchase 3 more wands and 2 sub sub controllers to have the “full” experience available. If a Wand is 40 dollars and a sub controller is 20 dollars that would bring the total price for the full experience to around 260 dollars. This is significantly less than our previous speculation, but once again even these numbers are just speculation. We should have more concrete info come E3.
Ok…so Sony has really let the cat out of the bag on all their Move info. One piece on info they bestowed on us is that the Move is going to have a starter bundle that will have One Playstation Eye and One Move (which is the wand with the ball on the end). So that sort of got me thinking how much would it cost to get a complete move experience for all 4 players? Gizmodo did some mental math and broke this down using logical pricing. Here is what they came up with.
Both Sports Champions and Move Party could be the pack in game that comes with the Playstation Move. Sports Champions is basically Sony’s version of Wii Sports. The Gladiator Arena game was shown off and it didn’t look much different than what the Wii offers with the sword fighting. Move Party looks a lot like Microsoft’s Your In The Movies and has a ton of different mini games based around a party setting.
Yet another of Playstation Move’s launch titles. This game is basically a shooting gallery game where you shoot robots, cowboys, and other baddies using the wand portion of the Move. This game didn’t really those much precision and looked very much like a Wii mini game. Hopefully this game evolves a little bit and becomes more than just a shooting gallery. Check out the screens below!
Eye Pet is now confirmed to be a Playstation Move title. The game lets players interact with a small animal on screen while the Playstation Eye puts the player in the background on the tv. It is sort of hard to explain and is much easier to see in screenshots. So here ya go.
(UPDATED: Better Pictures uploaded.)
Sony held a press conference at GDC today and announced the official name of their motion controller, “Playstation Move”. The peripheral itself looks mostly the same as the E3 demo we got last year. It still has the “ball” on the top with a lot of different colors. It also has a nun-chuck like peripheral that you hold in your other hand. This is officially called The PlayStation Move Subcontroller…thats not very catchy!!!
There were various demos showing off the Playstation Move. One game that was demoed was called “Sports Champions”, which is basically Sony’s version of Wii Sports. A Gladiator Arena game was shown with the player battling a AI player. This looked a lot like the sword fighting in Wii Sports Resort. I really couldn’t tell any difference between the Wii Motion Plus and Playstation Move…Move looked almost identical to what Motion Plus offers.
Move Party is another game which is just a bunch of mini games from painting inside the lines and other party games. Also shown was a co-op version of Little Big Planet where one player plays sack boy and the other player uses the motion controller to move the environment to help out his buddy. It looked pretty cool and has some great physics from the LBP games.
They also showed off the Move interacting with the Eye Pet games. It was extremely disturbing…the playstation eye takes the players and puts them in the background on the tv with the eye pet in front. The little monkey was dancing to the music and interacting to the kids using the move while Owl City’s “Fireflies” played in the background. VERY DISTURBING!!!
Socom 4 will completely support the Playstation Move. You will be able to play through from start to finish using the Move. This looked pretty good on screen but extremely uncomfortable for the player. Zipper working on this title is promising but it just doesn’t look comfortable at all.
The “Starter Kit” will include a Playstation Eye, a game, and the Playstation Move for under 100 Dollars.
Also on a side note, Sony confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will ship this year!
Note: Sony pointed out that the version demoed is a Pre-Alpha. So there is a lot more developing to go. Once videos become available we will have those posted so stay tuned!
Sony has decided to take their XMB (Cross Media Bar) interface and apply it to their online area called Playstation Home. The XMB interface is much easier to navigate and this is an attempt by Sony to make their online space more streamlined and easy to navigate, thus making a better Home experience. This probably won’t be the only piece of Sony news we get today from GDC so check back for more news and screens of the new interface once they become available!
This week Michael, Rich, and Brian talk about the games they have been playing as well as some big games this week like Final Fantasy XIII. Michael is very excited to play the game and we’ll have his impressions on that next week. Rich and Brian talk about the latest sports games they have been playing as well as why everyone is so obsessed with Portal.
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Well, Fallout New Vegas now has some gameplay screenshots. Surprise, it looks A LOT like Fallout 3. I was really hoping for more color and glitz with it being in Vegas. But most of these screenshots look like more of those 3 shades of brown that Fallout 3 had. Color me disappointed. Check out the screens below!
ResumePlay goes back and takes a closer look at the Halo Reach Multiplayer Trailer. Lots of new info about the game is shown and we speculate and explain our thoughts on what they could be. Let us know what you think in the comments!
After a recent article speculating about the possible price of the Playstation Move, Gizmodo contacted Sony and asked them to clarify a few things about the Move, and how the “wands” and sub controllers actually connect to the PS3. Here is what Gizmodo was told by Sony.
