PlayStation Move unveiled
The PS3 motion controller. Wand, sub-controller, pricing, games, photos and screenshots.
Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 motion controller is officially to be called PlayStation Move.
Exact pricing and bundling information will follow soon, but in the meantime we've been told that the Move controller, PlayStation Eye camera and a starter disc with game demos will be bundled for under $100 this autumn.
Other deals will include a standalone controller for people who already have PS Eye; a full console pack, which includes PS3, DualShock 3, Move and PS Eye; and a range of game-and-controller bundles.
Check out our PlayStation Move photo gallery to see what it looks like these days.
The main controller features a three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer and a terrestrial magnetic field sensor. It weighs 145g and is 200mm x 46mm.
It has a colour-changing sphere, which is tracked by the PlayStation Eye camera, supports rumble, and has action buttons and an analogue trigger.
Sony will also release a smaller PlayStation Move "sub-controller", which is a one-handed device with a "sleek curved design that pairs with the motion controller", and which has its own analogue stick and directional buttons.

PlayStation Move.
The sub-controller weighs a mere 95g and is 138mm x 42mm. (You can tell we scrolled the whole way down the press release on this one.) It will be possible to play through the whole of SOCOM 4 using a Move-and-sub-controller combination.
Like the Sixaxis and DualShock 3, the controllers have built-in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and sync with PS3 via Bluetooth.
Sony said it will back the launch with "more than 20" games that either use or support Move by the end of its fiscal year on 31st March 2011.
Several of the games were shown off on-stage during Sony's GDC conference keynote. Check out the live text transcript of the conference to learn more about them.
Sony's GDC press kit includes screenshots of a number of games with Move support. Check them out:
- Brunswick Pro Bowling
- Motion Fighter (working title)
- Move Party (working title)
- Sliders (working title)
- Sports Champions
- TV SuperStars
Sony also revealed that 36 developers and publishers are supporting Move, although its list does include Tecmo and Koei separately.
It also has Sony Online Entertainment on it, which is surely a given. "Hi Kaz, it's Kaz, will you support Move?" "Hi Kaz! I'd love to! Sincerely, Kaz."
The full list of supporting companies follows.
- 505 Games
- Activision
- AQ Interactive
- Arc Systems Work
- Atlus
- Bigben Interactive
- Capcom
- CCP
- Crave Entertainment
- Cyberfront
- Disney
- Electronic Arts
- FromSoftware
- Game Republic
- Gust
- Hudson Soft
- Irem Software
- Koei
- Konami
- Majesco
- Marvelous Entertainment
- Namco Bandai
- Ongakukan
- Oxygen Games
- Paon Corporation
- Q Entertainment
- Q-Games
- SEGA
- Sony Online Entertainment
- Spike
- Square Enix
- Tecmo
- THQ
- Ubisoft
- Warner Bros.
- Zoo Entertainment
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... that the Wii has been doing for almost a year now.
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Now those are some back-of-the-box bullet points for the 'casual gamer' to chew on!
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The bulb can change colour.
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They look... very weird.
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It's going to take something seriously impressive to convert me, considering I bought a Wii on launch day and I've only ever bothered to complete one game for it.
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I can't wait to buy this crap, I can keep it the same cupboard as my Singstar mics, my Buzz buzzers and my Rockband guitar and drums.
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SOCOM is a good start for PS3, but I'm disappointed their wasn't more than that.
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Also how do you fragment the market if you offer both ways of playing on one disk? Isnt options a good thing? Roll on Tiger Woods 2011 with the move
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Theres always going to be people saying 'it doesnt do this/its just like the Wii', but I think Sony are doing the right thing by developing this, and I will definetely be having a go (especially considering the amount of devs on board).
edit - I also think this would absolutely suit a game like Oblivion, would love to run around bashing creatures in the face with my 'move' stick, though knowing my sodding luck i'd put it through my big expensive HD telly.
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Rimmer: Step up to Red Alert!
Kryten: Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.
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"hopefully devs have learned by now that tacked on motion controls are a complete waste of time."
I'm guessing Sony hasn't considering that this thing exists.
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it's going to bomb harder than the PS3
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wut? So it's a compass?
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]http://ww w.eurogamer.net/gallery.php?gam...[/link]
Is Idol Minds the one responsible?
The queues for the lunch run, that day, must have been shocking!
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I think you're confusing this with Natal?
Besides, im all for it.. Wii like pointing controls, but with more accuracy, and high def visuals, etc? Bring it on!
From what i saw from Videos at E3 last year, could be great for fps games! In fact I can see LOADS more "real world game" uses for this than i can see for they "eye toy 2" (natal)
As for saying it's a Wii knock off.. look on youtube - sony were demoing this tech long before nintendo showed the wii.
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can't really see this as innovative, or that interesting, TBH.
hmmm...
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Dont worry - i am too.. i dont own a ps3, but if this works - i might just be tempted... Bit of an expensive outlay though once youve bought the console and the camera and the wand...
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Nunchuk/Subcontroller
Casual games
Marketing in the Wii/Natal vein
Live demo
Thing seems to work pretty well,thats for sure,although it has some little lag but its still early days of development.
But for me the interesting thing was
1)All third parties on board
2)Shipping games with dual SKUS(DS3/Move ) in one Blu Ray,so everybody can play their way (Move/DS3) so the core/casual division in many games will dissappear.This will prevent fragmenting the market as the WMP has done.
3)Move response is one frame....similar to DS3.
4)Very easy to develop for ,so a lot of option of many ,many games taking the 2 route.
5)The subcontroller is optional ,so probably the DS3 option to move the character is still allowed.
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Be interesting if you get the same number as negs as i go though :-D
Honestly - some people seem to have missed the point of the neg button - it's there to mark down and hide trolls and spammers. Not people who are disagreeing with you.. Otherwise it'll just become "mob rule" where (say for example) a load of 360 owners come into a thread like this and mark up people slagging this off, and mark down people (like me) pointing out that it actually looks quite good!
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Anyone who thinks this looks like a sex toy should get out more. What it DOES look like is a HD Wii-like controller. Isn't that something that's been hankered after for ages?
As for copycat claims, I think those particular accusers should read up on the history of console-based motion control.
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"Anyone who thinks this looks like a sex toy should get out more. What it DOES look like is a HD Wii-like controller."
With all due respect, if this doesn't look like a dildo to you then perhaps YOU need to get out more. Well, not "need' per se . . . but I think there's alot you're missing out on!
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Not sure it needs selling, looks like something women could get very enthusiastic about.
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The list of third-party developers said to be supporting this gives me hope, though.
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I would have to hide it whenever the in laws can around, why would anyone leace a didlo on the coffee table.
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I noticed a few of the home studios were missing myself. Notably Media Molecule, I thought they'd be a shoe in.
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Not original, but done right at least, so far.
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So that's what he's doing now.
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Im just not feeling the love at the moment. Is it me or have Sony gone on some horrendous detour of late PSP Go, PS3 slim design, appocalyPS3, Move etc?
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... that the Wii has been doing for almost a year now. "
Didn't realise Wii had Blu-Ray and HD graphics...wow.
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No wonder Naughty Dog was distancing themselves from full support. My 5 year old is too grown up for this sh*t.
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Plus, there are two extra motion capture methods above what Nintendo do. Magnetometers are being used increasingly in mobile phones for augmented reality stuff so you can tell absolute orientation.
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"The main controller features a three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer and a terrestrial magnetic field sensor."
Now those are some back-of-the-box bullet points for the 'casual gamer' to chew on!
For me, those captions seems to be from the "Mass Effect" codex or something similar... terrestrial magnetic field sensor? WTF?
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You mean you don't remember Fleming's left hand rule?
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From the range of frankly gimmicky games available on the Wii, I don't think there is much need for this Sony clone of the Wii-mote unless it does things drastically differently.
I mean the games released for these controllers never seem to realise the potential of the controller and play to the controller's strengths. Why isn't there a lightsaber game, or even a decent, sword fighting game? People would buy it in droves.
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Well good luck to them but i can't see any of my male friends buying them other than to intentionally welcome in the banter would get the shit ripped out of them. Jesus the Wii is just a name at least it does't look like a 60's vibrator with a glowing end
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"No wonder Naughty Dog was distancing themselves from full support. My 5 year old is too grown up for this sh*t. "
Some of us don't want to grow up though. Tell your 5 year old, paying the bills, commuting to work, doing the washing and cooking is no f##ing fun at all.
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Also, shame Rockstar aren't signed up. I was quite looking forward to Knife Crime Hero!
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(this is because their are homo)
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I imangine that the secondary controler probaly syncs to the Move controller and it connects to the PS3 or at least that would be the better solution.
Then again at nearly £70 - £100 a pop for them I don't think many PS3 owners are going to have more than 2 never mind seven.
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OMFG i just watched the trailer for it as well. its official SONY invented the motion controller.FFS
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The most fun this brings to gamers, is watching another Sony exec get fired
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"Honestly - some people seem to have missed the point of the neg button - it's there to mark down and hide trolls and spammers. Not people who are disagreeing with you.."
is it? who says? i use it as a gauge of how many people agree with you or not. if 50 people disagree with you (or think you're "spamming"
for the record, i down-voted you because i think your off-base about this being any less wii-derivative than the natal, and the importance of sony demoing this tech pre-wii. companies demo a lot of things, but the wii proved that the concept works, and now they are all playing catch-up
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how is it more accurate? are you retarded?
everything they've shown so far has been done on the Wii but better. if anything the clunkiness of the gansterfied minigames suggest it's less accurate
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Doesn't that worry anyone else? Bloody better be removable. Remember Sony almost made the sixaxis without a removable battery...
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Now, you see. I'd buy that. Let's be honest, everyone would buy that.
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Oh sorry if you misunderstood me. I'll re-iterate - I said that sony did this as a tech demo BEFORE the wii was announced. Natal on the otherhand is just a eyetoy rip off.
But it seems in this thread anything "pro sony" get negated by the fanboys... Seems that not many of you are ps3 owners.
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From the demos shown at last years E3 - where he signed his name using the thing.. yes it does look more accurate.. certainly more accurate than flapping your arms around in front of the tv and waiting for the lag to catch up.
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Meh...
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useless for everyone else
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Also this will be free from the shitty sensor bar.
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The bulb is there cause it's the fucking reason the whole device exists.
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the excellent software sales? the low development costs?
of yeah that's right. the shitty failure has neither of those things
play heavy rain instead. you can make yourself a cup of tea with quicktime events
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I was just being hopeful that's all.
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Sheesh some of you are so wrapped up in your "anti-sony" hate that you wont even admit to some of the good things about this... Not that i know why im bothering - all you msoft fangirls are going to negate me anyhow.
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You've been rather active in 3 separate discussions now on a product you consider shit for a platform you despise produced by a company you hate. What exactly are you trying to achieve with this other than making yourself sound like an utterly annoying prick?
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And I assume the people moaning the Move steals ideas from the Wii controller also moaned that the original xbox controller (and playstation for that matter) was a blatant rip off as it had buttons like previous controllers did?
Virtually everything is a copy/"improvement" of something else - its about time people just got over it! Name an electronic item in your house that isn't a copy of something else...
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11/03/10 @ 00:53
It only does everything...
... that the Wii has been doing for almost a year now.
Except that it has built in rechargability, and an analogue trigger. Analogue stick would have been welcomed.
I have no PS360 an only a Wii so I'm no fanboy. I only buy the console 'cos it's the only one with Nintendo GAMES. I hope that MS and Sony force Nintendo out of console manufacturing so we can see their games appearing on these systems, because in hindsight, the Wii controls pale in comparison and are rarely well used (MP3 is the only one I can think of that justifies them).
And the VC & Wiiware are a joke compared to the PS360 counterparts.