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The motion detection found on the PS3 is heading to the PS2 and PC.
Featuring a robust 12 button analog configuration, the G-Pad Pro adds intuitive and precise motion sensing technology to improve gameplay performance in virtually any genre of gaming. Rotate the controller on multiple axes to gain four additional control options in three dimensional space. The result is advanced new movement functions and a smoother, more dynamic ability to control in-game action. Additionally, users may experience decreased hand fatigue compared to standard keyboards or controllers.
The VRMS programmable driver allows users to set, save, and load custom settings on your PC, or adjust control sensitivity with the touch of a button on your PS2. Gamers can combine the control options of a mouse, keyboard, joystick and more onto a single multi-functional controller. Use the G-Pad Pro like a racing wheel or flight yoke, or sit back and put all of your input devices at your fingertips with added realism and precision. The G-Pad Pro also features dual-motor force feedback technology officially licensed from Immersion.
With all the excitement about the PS3's new motion sensing controller at E3, we'll have to wait and see if people are ready to use regular controllers in 3d space. The word "excitement" in that last sentence was used sarcastically, if you couldn't tell. Nobody gave a crap about the PS3.
Available in July.
Comments
A few years ago Microsoft had this gamepad called the Sidewinder Freestyle, it had a gyroscopic sensor in it.
So now when your parents/young siblings play games, their twisting and shaking of the controller actually will do something!
I'd be embarrassed to be seen in public with that thing.
"I'd be embarrassed to be seen in public with that thing." Where do you play video games? My console is in my living room.
Let it be known that sarcasm is not lost on the Supple one. I have a neighbor that I have, on occassion, brought controllers (my arcade sticks) to. And I have friends to whose homes I've done the same. Try leaving your living room. Those l33t friends you've made on xbox live are actually living, breathing people!
Along them lines, I don't understand how the Wii controller will be demoed in stores though. Will they have a really long steel cable attached or what?
I think jV that taking your controller out with you when you leave your living room is slightly sadder than only using it to play games.
No no no no no. I've used motion-sensor controllers which emulate analogue sticks on the PlayStation before. They don't work well. If the game's not been balanced with a tilt sensor controller in mind, you're all over the place.
Powers - that idea makes sense, but it wouldn't need to be steel - maybe one of those plastic spirally spring things? So that it doesn't drag all over the floor when you don't need the full length. I don't really know though, they're talking about doing everything differently so maybe they are going to come into people's houses to demo it - like Ann Summers parties, but with fewer sex toys...
Microsoft tried this before and people weren't interested in the technology for computers. When a control with motion control is just an option and not the default controller, developers don't support it. I think this will work for the WII though because it is the default controller.
Then, tudor, you must lead a sad life. Is your reading merely grade-school level? Go back to my post. For most people who play games, socializing should take precedence over solo gaming. If you don't agree, then this discussion ends here. Wow, I had to re-read my post three times because I couldn't believe anyone with an IQ higher than 3 could have missed the point. Nice try, tuddy.
<sigh> jV, your first post wasn't sarcastic. It was just a turn of phrase that struck me as funny, so I built off of that. Yes, I know what you meant by it. Likewise, Powers was just razzing you in the same way. Why are we all taking ourselves so seriously? I thought the point of comments is to have fun and "socialize" with our fellow Gizmodo readers.
Won't it mess up your gameplay when you start seizing from the flashing lights??
SuppleMonkey: On the interweb I am Lord Zoltar and I am to be feared! With this controller I would need to retrain myself to be retarded (when I first played the nes I moved the controller with the direction I wanted to go in). No, I'm quite happy with the 360 controller and I'll kill anyone with an opposing view, in front of their own mother. Think about it.
My cat's breath smells like catfood.
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