Motion Controller / Hands Free (Kinect)

As technology seems too evolve at great speeds, the gaming industry keeps getting changed up. Before, gaming meant sitting down, tapping some computer keys or hitting a couple buttons on your controller, with the stereotype of all gamers being lazy and fat people! Nowadays, people really can’t say much about the “laziness” as there have been many varieties of  motion consoles that have released or just add-ons.

The first and seems like only motion based console to have released is the Nintendo Wii. It features controllers, shaped not like normal, more like a remote control for your TV type of thing that has a accelerometer inside to be used primarily for detecting motion, there for controlling your console from there. This console is great and quite revolutionizing, as it’s the first to really implement this style of play. Comes with some ups and downs as expected, the good would definitely be the motion obviously and the great classic Mario games and such. But the bad are pretty big in this case too! They’re many instances where we’ve witness people throwing their controllers into TV, literally shattering them while playing tennis or a game of such sort. There was a made strap for your wrist to prevent so, but obviously people wouldn’t listen and there goes your brand new flat screen. Other consoles that have an add-on for this type of game play would be the PS3 with the Eye.

Xbox also has this type of games, only completely hands free! Now this is truly revolutionizing as their console brings the first ever completely hands free gaming. This is also an add-on for a lot of extra money but man is it fun, until you get tired that is! It’s a pretty long camera with a motion sensor on it that scans the area and then pretty much knows where you are. The Kinect really runs great and smooth and games can be a load of fun if you feel like getting up and actually getting a bit of a work out from it. The only thing is it gets really tiring after a while since most of the games require a lot of movement, and for lazy people like me you wouldn’t want to play this every single day!

Finally motion controllers and hands free Kinect really changed the way people look at gaming now, since before it was just for lazy people. That argument has been scratched and more and more people will now give video games a chance, as sales prove so too! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sensor_(gaming)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Eye
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii