Sony Believes Move Can Out-do Mouse & Keyboard
Sony is putting all their effort behind their upcoming motion controller, the PlayStation Move, and it’s obvious to see that they firmly believe in their product. In fact they are so confident in the PlayStation Move, that the man who created it, Dr. Richard Marks, believes it even feels better for RTS games than the mouse and keyboard.
Dr. Richard Marks told CVG that the PlayStation Move will eventually will impact the design of RTS titles in the future.
“I think that PC RTS games are designed right now for the mouse and keyboard, but I think the Move can work with the more general idea of an RTS really well. It could play a PC RTS really well, but I think there is modifications on the RTS genre that will be really good with. I play a lot of RTS games but the way I think about it is you have a landscape below you with all the troops, and imagine you’re the general and you just want to look out over your troops and select guys – tell them to attack there.”
“You really feel like this general or god-like person that can manipulate huge armies. I think that with Move would feel way better than a mouse for that, for example, and doing things that require some 3D information is much better with Move. The RTS genre has been designed not to require any 3D information, but having that extra dimension and all the angle data that we have too is also very interesting.”
Certainly some bold claims from Sony’s Research and Development wiz. Consumers will have to judge for themselves if the PlayStation Move can indeed out-do a mouse and keyboard combination when it launches next month. What are your thoughts on this? Voice your thoughts via the comments section below.
12 Responses to “Sony Believes Move Can Out-do Mouse & Keyboard”
…keyboard is still pretty handy for ummm….you know Typing. I just love typing in things on the Wii, it’s so handy and intuitive. especially with its crack addict hand shaking precision.
Sony doesn’t believe Move can outdo a Mouse and Keyboard…..because it can’t. I don’t think you have ever seen a pro gamer playing a RTS game if you are making that statement. Pro Gamers can pump out 300 moves per minute with a keyboard and mouse. It is impossible to do that with a controller. Not even if you just substitiuted the mouse for the Move.
What they ARE saying is that it would FEEL better using the Move. It is a different experience. One that you really feel like God moving the pieces.
Make no mistake, if you put a player with the Move up against a player with a M&K….the ending would be downright ugly.
You should really fix the title since it just isn’t true.
Change the title. John Bucci is correct.
Nowhere in those statements does it say that Sony believes the move can out-do a mouse AND keyboard.
In my personal experince, i find Mouse and keyboard is better. especially when i play Unreal Tournament on PS3 with Mouse and keyboard, much far better than playing with PS3 controller.
Sony Believes Move Can Out-do Mouse & Keyboard ? ha ha okay whatever Sony
I hate strategy games but I do see his point, and it sounds cool
None of you guys have tried a Move. That automatically make you “so sure” statements a failure. You need to just state that your skeptical and let that be that.
“Pro Gamers can pump out 300 moves per minute with a keyboard and mouse.” – are they really pro gamers or are they pro couch potatoes? Or in the case of PC, chair potatoes…either way if they can perform commands that quickly they spend way too much time playing games.
What he is trying to say that to a typical gamer the Move will feel and perform better. If you stop just being know-it-alls and actually think about the logic of the Move system versus a keyboard and mouse, it makes sense that it should feel and work better…for any game.
@giese095,
Yes, there is such a thing. They also get paid. Perhaps you should use the interwebs and look it up.
StarCraft is also holding a tournament with a 500K prize if you don’t think there is a lot of money in it.
@Odium-Generis,
I don’t have to try the Move. I can use common sense. Do yourself a favor and watch this video and you tell me if any Motion Controller could compete with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYhX8fjmo8
For the record, I have Move pre-ordered. I can’t wait to get my hands on it as I think it will be awesome with FPS and TPS games. Also, the sports title looks really fun. I’d even try it with an RTS game as it’s not my cup of tea.
My only beef is the title as it is clearly a mis-interpretation of the facts.
Watching professional Starcraft players (yes, that is their job) is downright scary. It simply isn’t possible to compete with that with a gesture-based system. Then again, that quote doesn’t look like he said that it does compete with it…
@giese095
These guys (I think the majority are South Korean) really do make a lot of scratch just playing SC. They have weekly tournaments that are televised and it is very popular. As hard as it seems to believe, you just have to look around the increasing depressing television schedule and see how many times a day that poker is on; kinda the same thing when it comes down to it.
You really can’t say that it “will work better for any game.” A keyboard is like a gesture-based system that was designed for the smallest possible movements to produce completely different/discrete results. I just don’t understand how you could think that waving something around in the air could possibly be better. But you also through in that “typical gamer” phrase which makes debating rather difficult; you may not have meant what I’ve managed to interpret
Regardless of the comparison between Move and M&K…
You’ll end up being a lot healthier with Move.
Now I lol.
They totally have a point here. Black and White 2 would feel awesome using the Move. Especially if 3D was involved. I am voting for Black and White 3D on PS3, that would be awesome.