Sony just released a plethora of screens and videos of their motion controller at work. The Playstation Move is Sony’s answer to the Wiimote and Project Natal, a power move to secure their hands on a genre of gaming previously unavailable to them. Many games for the Wii have felt gimmicky, but were otherwise fun in party situations. This was part of the trouble of owning a Wii after its launch: it was a console for a group setting. Games like Warioware and Mario Party were meant to be played with friends, the only exception being that kids loved the mini-games and could play them alone and have just as much fun. The problem from this pattern of games was that it was a one-trick pony. All it could do was entertain a group and rarely the owner alone. For that he or she would turn to his 360 or PS3.

Since then there has been some breakthroughs in the motion control gaming genre. Games like The Conduit have proven that this technology isn’t a shot in the dark. The problem is that developers need to make games seriously with this technology. There is nothing that gives me despair for the industry more than Casual Games. The more new casual gamers that enter the ranks of the community, the more developers are inclined to make simple, casual games. Why?

I long for the golden years of the PS2, where developers were all competing to create phenomenal experiences. I’m hoping that the Move and Project Natal can only strengthen the consoles, and challenge the developers into creating new ways to entertain us. And please, guys, we don’t want the Tea Cup rides, we want Space Mountain. Don’t let us down.

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