Sony: MOVE is better than mouse and keyboard.

The man behind Sony's PlayStation Move controller has claimed that the peripheral feels better for RTS games than the humble mouse and keyboard.

Dr. Richard Marks told CVG that the wand-like device will impact the design of RTS games in future - bringing them into the 3D plane.

"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," he said.

"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."

Very bold words! Wonder if it'll pay off!

Link.

lol no, its still handicapped by the lack of buttons.

Maybe the mouse, and I stress maybe. How on Earth will it beat out the keyboard though?

The man behind Sony's PlayStation Move controller has claimed that the peripheral feels better for RTS games than the humble mouse and keyboard.Zune_HD

I would love to have this guy back up his claim in a match of sc2 lol.

Homeworld on the PC did the 3rd dimensional movement thing well 10 years ago, I don't know what he's talking about. I mean, he doesn't know what he's talking about. :D

Sure, having to stabilize my pointer in mid air is going to be more accurate than my mouse along with the truckload of buttons, that my keyboard provides me with.

Well the ps3 does support KB so if MOVE + KB for an RTS would be better than KB+mouse. BUT heck what do I know, I dont game on PC's and I've never played an RTSJ-WOW

you guys are feeding the troll, i'm disappointed, anyway it probably will for some people and it probably won't and no one has had a chance to use it with a rts soo ehh, maybe, maybe not

Chris_Williams

you guys are feeding the troll, i'm disappointed, anyway it probably will for some people and it probably won't and no one has had a chance to use it with a rts soo ehh, maybe, maybe not

Chris_Williams

-.- If Sony is saying Move > Mouse and keyboard and Move is essentially a carbon copy of the Wiimote and Nunchuck, that would mean Wii > Mouse and keyboard....

Logical fail?

lol Move is no better than the Wii waggle stick.

They gave one example of a moment where they prefered Move over PC/mouse.

And of course OP ran with it.

Maybe the mouse, and I stress maybe. How on Earth will it beat out the keyboard though?

lundy86_4

sony still loves to make ridiculous claims.

sony still loves to make ridiculous claims.

KarateeeChop

Like they are the only ones. AND honestly, it wont take much to beat the k/m imho.

when it comes to the Mouse, maybe. But it can never replace a kb, just have a look at pro SC gamers, they use the kb more than the mouse xD I could imagine that some kind of combination of touch screen and kb could work wonders

sony still loves to make ridiculous claims.

KarateeeChop

[QUOTE="KarateeeChop"]

sony still loves to make ridiculous claims.

Like they are the only ones. AND honestly, it wont take much to beat the k/m imho.

TC is being really deceiving here. At first when I read thread title my reaction was just uhhh not again. But that article he posted doesn't contain that phrase at all. Sony is suggesting that the MOVE could match the mouse's precision in unit selection, not that its outright better than kb/m, which if they said that I would cringe.

TC is being really deceiving here. At first when I read thread title my reaction was just uhhh not again. But that article he posted doesn't contain that phrase at all. Sony is suggesting that the MOVE could match the mouse's precision in unit selection, not that its outright better than kb/m, which if they said that I would cringe.

PSdual_wielder

^This

I read the article and "Sony" doesn't say that ... Richard Marks simply states that he can see where Move could either match or improve certain aspects of RTS games.

[QUOTE="KarateeeChop"]

sony still loves to make ridiculous claims.

VanDammFan

Like they are the only ones. AND honestly, it wont take much to beat the k/m imho.

mouse, maybe. but an arm/wrist isn't going to replicate the dedicated hand in preciseness from what I see.

and no subcontroller will allow you the functionality of a keyboard.

If so i might actually start buying FPS games on the console.

Why do Sony employee's always have to make these statements that they are improving on pc's, the last time they did it MS made a console :| I wonder how this will bite them in the backside.

lol Sony always says stuff like this.

They gave one example of a moment where they prefered Move over PC/mouse.

And of course OP ran with it.

Chutebox

when sony says something. i go buy a extra large bag of salt......

[QUOTE="Chutebox"]

They gave one example of a moment where they prefered Move over PC/mouse.

And of course OP ran with it.

black_tempest

Sony amuses me.Arach666

you'd think they'd have learned from their embarrassing e3 '06 conference.

[QUOTE="Arach666"]Sony amuses me.KarateeeChop

you'd think they'd have learned from their embarrassing e3 '06 conference.

[QUOTE="Arach666"]Sony amuses me.KarateeeChop

you'd think they'd have learned from their embarrassing e3 '06 conference.

Some one who has not read the article.:roll:

Out everything I heard from Sony, this is the by far the dumbest comment made Diviniuz

They never made it though...

All they said was Move would be better than a mouse for certain things.

I find this hard to believe. sure it might be great for a game like Homeworld, but for games like Starcraft umm... Yeah I don't even think I need to continue from here,

Still, if it *really* is better than the only thing I can be is excited that a genre is evolving and that controls are evolving and that eventually such things will be used in many PCs.