On the Move
July 1st, 2010 @ 9:36 pm by KunoichiZero
Dear Troll-Like Entities:
We know that in the PlayStation Move you think you’ve found a new source of endless LULZ. But allow me to point a few things out:
The Move is an add-on. In the history of console add-ons, not a single one has reached anywhere near the install base of its parent console. Even the most successful ones, such as the Sega CD or the Wii Balance Board, still have sold relatively few units in comparison to their parent machines, and for every one relative success story such as these, there are a hundred Jaguar CD’s, N64 Memory Expansion Modules, Sega 32X’s… the list goes on and on. Basically, if if didn’t come in the original package, forget it, most are not interested. Developers know this too, and no matter how hard Sony tries to push this, most if not all of them will come to the decision that the Move’s tiny install base does not justify the additional costs involved in supporting it. And even if they do, it will most likely be some kind of half-assed tacked-on control scheme, signifying nothing. Thus they make the prophecy of no one buying the addon a self-fulfilling one, as people look at the thing and, with justification, say, “Why bother? There’s no games for it.”
Or, for the “tl;dr” crowd: the PlayStation Move is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and any effort spent in even disliking it is wasted.
Also: making fun of the Move by recycling the same jokes you’ve been making about the Wii’s motion controls for the last 4 years makes you look like a complete tool. I’m just sayin’.