PS Move Launch Date and Price Announced, Portal 2 For the PS3 145
Sony also unveiled a new campaign for the PSP, apparently designed to compete with phone games. Upcoming titles include Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalkers, Invizimals (an augmented reality game that makes use of the camera), God of War: Ghost of Sparta, and Kingdom Hearts. Moving back to the PS3, they gave a presentation on LittleBigPlanet 2, emphasizing how it is a platform for all kinds of games. Users will be able to create almost any type of game within LBP 2 — FPS, RTS, RPG, racing, space shooters, etc. They showed several brief demonstrations created in a short period of time, and it appears to be a very robust set of tools.
Next, Sony announced a long-rumored subscription service for the PlayStation Network called PlayStation Plus. It's intended to provide additional services to gamers for $50 a year. Existing PSN features won't change, and PSPlus will provide access to betas, themes, discounts at the Store, and other services. The crowd wasn't particularly pleased at this, and Sony quickly moved on to upcoming games. Valve's Gabe Newell came out on stage and announced that Portal 2 will be coming to the PS3, apparently with some limited Steam Cloud integration. We also got presentations on Dead Space 2 and a new Twisted Metal game planned for 2011
Can it be?!? (Score:3, Informative)
"Nav" controller confirmed semi-unnecessary (Score:4, Informative)
Reps from Zipper Interactive confirmed to me that the standard, Sixaxis controller can be used instead of the new "Nav" controller. The Nav replicates the left side of Sixaxis, anyway -- two shoulder buttons, one joystick, and simple gyroscope/motion sensing. Nav also has the face buttons, but so does the Move Wand, so those are a bit superfluous. If you want to save $30 on games that support the Nav, it's an option.
Re:Couldn't they make the Move less goofy? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Move support in Portal 2. (Score:3, Informative)
Kinect can't reliably detect anything better than coarse limb movement, so no hand actions, sorry.
http://www.destructoid.com/sadly-scrapped-arkedo-s-natal-game-2-finger-heroes-161106.phtml [destructoid.com]
Re:Seriously? (Score:4, Informative)
Sony has quite a few too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment [wikipedia.org]