Playstation Tilt Control is 'Rubbish' Says Head of Sega Racing Studio

[devilscallmedad]

There have been loads of grumbles and gripes about Sixaxis - the motion-sensing thing is a bit gimmicky, Wii does it better and that the rumble is hugely missed.

But it's not just gamers that think this - one of Sega's top development men has broken rank to offer his thoughts.

"Tilt control's not difficult to do," says Guy Wilday, head of Sega Racing Studio, on the possibility of tilty-pad gameplay being included in their new version of Sega Rally for PS3. "Fundamentally, though, the whole tilt control thing is rubbish. It's no compensation for rumble."

So the dissenting voices are coming from developers themselves, not just the gamers. What do you think about Sixaxis? The debate starts in the PSM3 forum - and to find out what Guy thinks about programming on PS3, and all the latest info on Sega Rally's PS3 debut, the full interview is in PSM3#85 - out this Thursday, February 15th.

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[Rebel640]

the tilt control thingy seemed so out-of-the-world in that ps3 AD where they showed some dragon being controlled by tilting the six-axis .. cant say anything for sure if its bad caz nobody has talked about six-axis that much critically lately, other than everybody is angry at sony for not including force-feedback just to save some bucks ....

.... but the AD was cool anyway ..these media-marketers ..will make u do anything ..lol

 

[Chandoo]

motorstorm says hi

 

[USUF]

i think sony will have to do wht microsoft had to do wth their xbox controller...back to the drawing board..put in the rumble feature and atleast remove the motion sensing

 

[radd]

motorstorm says hi

rofl , do you even know how bad tilt control in motorstorm is ?

did anyone else hear the guys at 1up talk about f1 , they said it felt DEAD without the rumble. sony just went back 10 years by taking it out.

 

[Chandoo]

rofl , do you even know how bad tilt control in motorstorm is ?

all i can find on gaf is people saying that it works fine on motorstorm


gamespot's preview from december.

"Control in the game is solid and varies in accordance with what you happen to be driving. The layout on the Sixaxis is intuitive and even offers the option to use the motion sensing functionality to steer your vehicle."

 

[Rebel640]

tilt shud be fine .. sony sure waste quite some bucks on testing the tilt thingy before investing loads of money on advertising the tilt-control ..

what they shud've done is that they shud've put some sort of force feedback ... from some other firm if they didn't want to pay that certain company all the money they were requiring for the dual-shock feedback.

 

[radd]

"Control in the game is solid and varies in accordance with what you happen to be driving. The layout on the Sixaxis is intuitive and even offers the option to use the motion sensing functionality to steer your vehicle."

err... why did you quote this again ? this says it "offers the option to use the motion sensing functionality to steer your vehicle"

 

[Chandoo]

err... why did you quote this again ? this says it "offers the option to use the motion sensing functionality to steer your vehicle"

thats the thing, all the videos etc you see of people playing and enjoying the game are of them doing it with tilt controls. Sega's spokesperson here went a little overboard with his claim. Its like saying every other wii racing game will be crap, because it essentially has tilt controlling for steering as well.

 

[devilscallmedad]

well the wii doesn't have tilt controls, it has 3D motion sensing huge difference and it also has rumble.
And i think sega is right tilt doesn't work in racing games developers should stop forcing them in and only reserve them for things like Lair.

 

[Chandoo]

well the wii doesn't have tilt controls, it has 3D motion sensing huge difference and it also has rumble.

but in driving games, the controls are used almost exactly like a tilt controller right, im not talking about 'controllers in general' im just talking about driving games. Rumble aside the method of steering in both the ps3 and wii mote's is exactly the same isnt it.

 

[radd]

dude , wake up ! even the gamertv preview which drooled so much over the game said the motion controls suck. you should hear john on the podcast (he has a new build) its broken.

 

[devilscallmedad]

but in driving games, the controls are used almost exactly like a tilt controller right, im not talking about 'controllers in general' im just talking about driving games. Rumble aside the method of steering in both the ps3 and wii mote's is exactly the same isnt it.

there are a few major differences, on Wii its Excite Truck on the ps3 its F1 and Motorstorm huge difference in the types of games.

 

[Chandoo]

dude , wake up ! even the gamertv preview which drooled so much over the game said the motion controls suck. you should hear john on the podcast (he has a new build) its broken.

really ? iirc the gamer TV guy actually liked the motorstrm controls and called it one of the best uses of the tilt controller functionality so far on a ps3 game, lemme see if i can refind that motorstorm preview on youtube.,

 

[radd]

omg ! you crack me up. stop shooting blanks, if you have a source quote it.

motion control sucks , both in f1 and motorstrom.

 

[fady]

well i prefer analog stix over tilt any tym.....except tht its wii.....