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EA: Natal, Sony motion control a "huge opportunity"

EA best positioned to take advantage of the new tech, reckons Peter Moore
EA's Peter Moore says that Sony's new motion control tech and MS' Project Natal provide a "huge opportunity" for EA.

"I think they are going to impact us very positively," Moore said of the new controllers. "Anything that uses motion and movement -- obviously sports is incredibly a part of that.

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"We have seen both Natal and the motion controller from Sony several months ago, so we're already, in both instances, looking at opportunities to bring our licensed product [and] our fitness product, to these new controller mechanisms. I can't think about anybody better positioned than us to do that," he added.

"If you think about everything everybody's always wanted to do with a sports video game, so much of the feedback you get is, 'I just wish I could' -- as we're starting to do -- "punch and something reacts." So you think of Fight Night: Round 4, for example, if it were in a first-person mode it would be very very cool. So those are the things we're starting to look at. Huge opportunity for us," said Moore.

Which games do you think would work best with the two companies' motion offerings?

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Posted by lordirongut
Yay first post :)

EA have not produced a good game in recent memory (unless you enjoy FIFA), so I don't think it's gonna change.

Roll on the party games, EA, like we know you will.
Posted by i love gaming
so ea havent produced a good game in recent memory eh ?? well u must have a rubbish memory m8 ,, you never heard of dead space ?? not to mention all their sports titles ,, wich are the best about and new original ips coming up , such as dantes inferno 8)
Posted by dorian2011
hopefully theyl add some motion control mingames to fifa 8) i would love to see a keepy up game on natal or a ball throwing game on madden also on natal :D good times indeed


and roll on svd_grasshopper anti-microsoft rant :lol: he would have sniffed out this story by now :lol:
Posted by xboxrulez
8) dont waste tim with ps-crap and sony, the only pariferial ps-crap neeeds is a kick (off a cliff!) great and speciel xbox 360 has better graphics than ps-crap 8) /win
Posted by Al3xbr0wn
Wow so you cue up SVD_grasshopper and get an xbot fag instead. theres always 1.

Anyway i think that the ps3 things would work best for fight night if its in first person. As it would detect really accurately exactly where your hands are and do perfect movements. Natal would work well in a decent amount of sports games if it does as well as they say it does. I'm still a little skeptical about it but we'll see
Posted by gogo65uk
still not big on the idea of motion control. It may grow on me but I doubt it. Will see closer the time. Burnout paradise is still among my fave games at the moment. Will keep an eye open and see which one grows on me later.
Posted by xboxrulez
8) Al3xbr0wn u dont knos me! i speek the troth. always. if i had ps-crap, id part xchange it 4 a wii (prob have to pay the extra diference tho, cos ps-crap not worth alot ŁŁŁ. i dont have much monies :( ) haha
Posted by tmulford
Burnout Paradise.

Though the demo of a Natal-enabled version of the game looked rubbish. Without buttons to properly control acceleration and handbrake it's a non-starter. For driving games Nintendo had the best idea with the Wii Wheel thing for Mario Kart, though that just makes the controller a cheap steering wheel and you can already get proper steering wheels for the 360 and PS3 if you want them.

Hopefully MS and SONY will realise that Motion Control is a specialist controller suitable for niche games. Just like SingStar mics, you wouldn't try and play Killzone 2 with them.
Posted by Mmmmgrolsch
So this is PS-Rubish back with another account yes? Or is it a common thing with you kids, cant spell, WTF does Troth mean please explain
Posted by xboxrulez
8) who is psrubbish?! may dont know, but sound handom and wise, yes? haha learn the internets speek grandma, it the troth - THE TROTH, what is u stubid? i teel the troth, no lays.

8) example =

ps-crap is no god = TROTH
ps-crap is alrite = LAY

may drew you diagram if you dummie? owned 8)
Posted by Mmmmgrolsch
Im, sorry but I don't recall people talking like that unless your a under educated kid, or PS3Rubbish is a) You or b) Has been giving you a retared English lesson.
Posted by xboxrulez
8) < "shades cool" this is may.
:oops: < "mmmgrob" this is u. / fail

(lik somehting i found in ded scrotyum. wiffy)
Posted by modge
dont you get tired of talking shit Crimbo,k109,cock
Posted by voad
It seems to me that this is obviously Crimbo... no one else is that stupid. So it has to be.
Posted by Mark240473
The keepy uppy game sounds like fun, but I have to question the feedback of such a game. It would just be weird if you couldn't feel the ball. Maybe a rumble strip could be added to a body part, in the form of a sticky device? Otherwise it would be pointless.

MS aren't daft and have surely thought about these problems.
Posted by Eclipse Dj
:roll: Oh dear CVG certainly does attract some morrons wiigodboy and now xboxrulez; now either these truely are blinkered, uneduacated retards or they are purely wind-up merchants who like to push everyones buttons to get a reaction. If it is the former there really is little hope for society.

A-n-y-way.. back on topic...



I knew this would be on the cards, especially when I saw Natal, I thought EA Active full body exercise/areobics capturing.



Again Natal would work well in this game, and I could see FIFA making use of it for penalty taking, or freekicks. @ tmulford - Not sure if SONY's motion control incororates an IR pointer but if it did Killzone 2 would work really well.
Posted by xboxrulez
8) Eclipse Dj plez stay on topic, tool. title is "xbox wins again" learn to red. brought 2u by "shades cool" > 8)
Posted by svd_grasshopper
crimbo is a ps3 owner, so doubt hes got a name called xboxrulez, and i was k109, also a ps3 owner.

so your way off base on both. retard.
Posted by Squall5005
Although xboxrulez is a complete lobotomised looney, I do find some of his senseless drivel pretty funny. :P
Posted by xboxrulez
8) thankee brother Squall5005

may normally just use "shades cool" > 8)
but 4 u, may giv "happy tim" > :)

(shhh plez dont tell ps-crap fanboys, may gone soft)
Posted by modge
»Soon all will be revealed,then who's going to be the RETARD, :shock:
Posted by _Marty_
Good god, what happened to people since I've not been coming here as regularly? I doubt some could make more redundant posts if they TRIED!
Posted by voodoo341
They'd have to stick a warning on the rumble strip, 'do not attach to your cock!'. You know it would only be a matter of time until someone like dorian gave it a go.
Posted by lordirongut
@ i love games

I stand corrected-the sports games are good (don't play 'em m'self but they are supposedly the best in class). I didn't like dead space though. Ah, well, each to their own. Dante's Inferno looks right up my street, may have to pick that up. Surely, you must admit though- most non-sports EA games are shovelware?
Posted by dorian2011
nothing wrong with being gay voodoo341 sorry we cant all live in your perfect straight world homophobe
Posted by ei8hty5ive
Help with PS3rubbish/xboxrulez translation...

Noun 1. Troth - a mutual promise to marry

Noun 2. Troth - a solemn pledge of fidelity

Hope that helps...

:D
Posted by i love gaming
@ lordirognut,,

yeah m8 i wud agree with u ,, need for speed stc ,, are a bit rubbish on it ,, yeah lookin 4ward to dantes inferno maself ,,

@grasshoper ,, 360 is king !!! 8)
Posted by Im_Money
I would love EA to make NHL with motion controls, NHL 2K9 on the wii was quite addictive. But with EA's game i'd be hooked for months on end i'm sure :)

Unless it was dire of course! :wink:
Posted by xboxrulez
8) xbox broother "i love gaming" = respect + win

std_grasshopper, u r quen of noobs = v sad fail

mov up! trade in ps-crap for 360 eliete, silly
Posted by English Shmuppet
^ man speekz da troof
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