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SEGA Europe's development boss Gary Dunn was "blown away" by Microsoft's and Sony's motion-sensing demonstrations at E3 and "immediately" wants to start working with the new technology.
"I was blown away by it, both systems offer us so many opportunities to do great things with videogames. I immediately now want to make another Virtua Tennis," Dunn told GamesIndustry.biz.
"There's so many games and possibilities. I want to go away and lock myself in a dark room with some of our cleverest chaps and see what we can do with it.
"We've got to look in different directions to almost throw history away and it requires a whole new way of thinking," he said. "We've got to ask what can we do with this, because completely different genres of games could open up."
Dunn believes there will be those who implement the motion-sensing controls into proven franchises, and those who invest time and money to innovate from scratch.
"Being the largest third-party publisher on Wii we obviously have good gestural experience so for us I can see an opportunity to get a land grab on some of our competitors by taking our head start in gestural gaming and evolving it," he said.
SEGA was one of the first companies to support Wii MotionPlus with Virtua Tennis 2009, which turned out well. The Sonic-maker has also bet big on Wii with mature exclusives like House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld.
Head over to GamesIndustry.biz for the full interview with Gary Dunn to find out how those games did and whether lacklustre sales will deflect SEGA from Wii development.
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mcmonkeyplc
01/07/09 @ 08:28
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Uh oh! Although to be fair Sega have made the best use of the waggle machine so this could be ok. I guess.
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Monkey_Puncher
01/07/09 @ 08:39
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Sega are finally gonna give their fans the Sonic game they've been craving, only you'll have to jog on the spot to get him moving...
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Wastelander
01/07/09 @ 08:46
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"Both systems offer us so many opportunities to do great things with videogames..."
Excellent! "...I immediately now want to make another Virtua Tennis" /facepalm |
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michaelius
01/07/09 @ 09:08
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So Master Chief Summer Olympics and Sackboy Winter Olympics confirmed? :D
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How about a new Magic Wand version of c64's Seek'n'Destroy!?!?! http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php...
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Doctor_What
01/07/09 @ 10:08
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House of the Dead on the Wii is utterly awesome though, so they do make some good games!
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Pac-man ate my wife
01/07/09 @ 11:26
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Aye, Sega have done well with the Wii - HotD, MadWorld, Let's Tap, Mario & Sonic are all great fun (if not necessarily all directed at people who claim they are hardcore) and The Conduit sounds like it's nailed the controls if not the plot. So of any developer I'd expect them to do a good job with this.
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I too am a waggle cynic, but playing Wii Sports Resort with M+ shows that there is defintiely potential here. The Kendo (1:1 sword stuff) and Table Tennis games control so well that Ninty have to help the 3rd parties get their controls that good too. Main prob is laziness, i.e. I can't be arsed to stand up and play after work.
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yagisencho
01/07/09 @ 19:43
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A proper Samba de Amigo sequel up first, please! With the PS3, the wands are the maracas. With Natal, you can use your own maracas.
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"...I immediately now want to make another Virtua Tennis"
/facepalm Exactly. This is the company that made the Activator in the early '90s, had motion sensing peripherals along with mics and a camera for the Dreamcast, and make arcade machines that vary from cabinets that spin people 360 degrees to placing plastic blocks against a giant screen so sprites can climb on them... ...and the first thing that comes to mind is yet another Virtua Tennis? Just release a waggle patch for the existing half-dozen 360/PS3 versions! Sega's 'cleverest chaps' are the arcade R&D people that always gave Sega its edge, right? Except it seems Yu Suzuki was locked in a dark room ages ago and Sega's forgotten where they left him. |
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No because the Wii became a fad and they are trying to tap into.
That is why both Sony and MS are going into this, the issue comes from the Wii selling HARDWARE but not so much software with the bunk of software sales being 1st party games (Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is the 10th highest selling game at 3.4 million). |
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AusFreelancer
02/07/09 @ 06:15
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C'mon EG....you can do better.
How about "SEGA gets blown by PS3 wand, gets pre-Natal"....? ok sorry. |
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