14 DAY TRIAL // As most of you have already seen, motion-sensitive technologies will appear in the near future for all the major current-generation consoles. As Nintendo started the trend with its Wii, Sony and Microsoft will follow up with new technologies starting next year.
There have been some mixed feelings about them in the third-party community, but it seems that at least Sega is very excited about the new systems and wants to create as many new games as possible that will support them. This, according to the company's Gary Dunn, who recently talked about Sega's mission to deliver quality experiences to gamers.
“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,” Dunn said. “I was blown away by it, both systems offer us so many opportunities to do great things with video games.”
“I immediately now want to make another Virtua Tennis. 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. We've got to ask what can we do with this, because completely different genres of games could open up.” he added.
Hopefully this commitment on behalf of Sega will be followed by other companies, which will use both Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's unnamed technology in order to create more meaningful experiences for gamers, whether they are hardcore or casual. Let's hope that we will get to see just what these new systems are capable of and whether we can abandon our old controllers in favor of the new technologies.