Though the Sony keynote was a bit of a bust for information-hungry game fans, the press conference the company ran shortly afterwards had a bit more meat to it. According to liveblogs from G4 and Kotaku, Sony made a few key announcements during its press conference. For starters, Gran Turismo 5 is now on for March 2010, at least in Japan.

But the more interesting portion has to do with Sony's motion controller. Set to be released in the Spring, the motion controller will be usable with LittleBigPlanet. It sounds like a patch is going into LBP that will add a point-and-click sort of option. Maybe this'll make level editing easier while adding some Super Mario Galaxy type of cooperative play?

Resident Evil 5 will also have motion controller support, but this won't be a patch. Instead, it'll be a whole new release known as Resident Evil 5: Director's Cut. Capcom's Jun Takeuchi was on stage to debut the new version of the game, and those on-hand seem to universally describe it as similar to the Wii release of Resident Evil 4.

A voice actress from Resident Evil 5 recently made comment about going back in to record new dialogue for an RE5 update, so it seems safe to assume that there will be more to this update than control changes.

Weirdly enough, Sony opted to not offer a live translation of this press conference for English speakers, so some of the coverage out there right now is a little dicey in spots. The liveblogs at Kotaku and G4 seem to be the most together of the lot, so give them a look for more details.

Though the Sony keynote was a bit of a bust for information-hungry game fans, the press conference the company ran shortly afterwards had a bit more meat to it. According to liveblogs from G4 and Kotaku, Sony made a few key announcements during its press conference. For starters, Gran Turismo 5 is now on for March 2010, at least in Japan.

But the more interesting portion has to do with Sony's motion controller. Set to be released in the Spring, the motion controller will be usable with LittleBigPlanet. It sounds like a patch is going into LBP that will add a point-and-click sort of option. Maybe this'll make level editing easier while adding some Super Mario Galaxy type of cooperative play?

Resident Evil 5 will also have motion controller support, but this won't be a patch. Instead, it'll be a whole new release known as Resident Evil 5: Director's Cut. Capcom's Jun Takeuchi was on stage to debut the new version of the game, and those on-hand seem to universally describe it as similar to the Wii release of Resident Evil 4.

A voice actress from Resident Evil 5 recently made comment about going back in to record new dialogue for an RE5 update, so it seems safe to assume that there will be more to this update than control changes.

Weirdly enough, Sony opted to not offer a live translation of this press conference for English speakers, so some of the coverage out there right now is a little dicey in spots. The liveblogs at Kotaku and G4 seem to be the most together of the lot, so give them a look for more details.

dude, what?

new RE5 content perhaps?

Still hoping for whatever that Jill thing is to become DLC.

I read the Kotaku blog about it.  I wonder if Sony will re-release some of it's games with motion support or just patch it in.

I kind of want this. It sounds cool. If stuff like this keeps coming to the motion controller, I might pick one up.

New-Style Control RE5 and White Knight 2(?) seem to be the only real meat.
 
BTW the Peace Walker Demo is freakin legit!

Reading a live blog of this it sounded like the RE5 demo was an impression (good or bad remains to be seen) of RE4 on Wii... Except holding a dual shock on the left hand (yuck)... NOW people are excited for this sort of gameplay, eh? Figures.

Is it 100% that Director's Cut is the motion controlled version or just speculation? It sounded like DLC material, or re-release, and I read mumblings over the motion controlled version being called Alternate something or other.

That's pretty insane.

The addi@Jeff said:

"It sounds like a patch is going into LBP that will add a point-and-click sort of option. Maybe this'll make level editing easier while adding some Super Mario Galaxy type of cooperative play?"

"Is it 100% that Director's Cut is the motion controlled version or just speculation? It sounded like DLC material, or re-release, and I read mumblings over the motion controlled version being called Alternate something or other. "

I know it's a re-release I was just inquiring over Director's Cut being a different unrelated thing that may also be DLC or re-release.

Reading a live blog of this it sounded like the RE5 demo was an impression (good or bad remains to be seen) of RE4 on Wii... Except holding a dual shock on the left hand (yuck)... NOW people are excited for this sort of gameplay, eh? Figures.

Motion controls will not make the game that much better. The NPC count will need to be upped significantly, and seeing as though that was only done on PC for technical reasons, this sounds a little lame and a waste of time.

" @Al3xand3r said:

Reading a live blog of this it sounded like the RE5 demo was an impression (good or bad remains to be seen) of RE4 on Wii... Except holding a dual shock on the left hand (yuck)... NOW people are excited for this sort of gameplay, eh? Figures.

I'm even less interested in this than if they had just gone with a nunchuck as well as motion control.  No, this is not exciting and it seems far from optimal.  At least they'll almost certainly still support traditional controls. "

I want to see them do some really original stuff, something that they can take advantage of the extra camera triangulation tech.  I figure that stuff is still coming, but tacking it on to an existing game doesn't seem any more of a good idea now than it did with Wii games.

Also, there's a good amount of info on the international version of White Knight Chronicles, which is also the NA version coming out around march too I think. It talks about having all the japanese DLC on disc, having full voice chat, and other various features I never heard about like making your won town/city and having lots of customization with that. Kotaku has something about it. Some new stuff, some old stuff with new additions, and old stuff no one heard about because this game got delayed too much(twice) for anyone to get hyped. 
 
Overall the game sounds better every time I hear about it at one of these events, lets hope it comes together and all of these online/multiplayer/customization features help it stand out from FF13 and the like.

YAY!, something I'm not interested in!

So they're ripping off the Wii? Way to go Sony.

Great it's going to be the third time I bought resident evil 5 then. Also the pc version already has very accurate controls. Still I can't really aim well on the ps3's dual shock at all, maybe this new control scheme would be better if the motion controller didn't look so retarded.

" Reading a live blog of this it sounded like the RE5 demo was an impression (good or bad remains to be seen) of RE4 on Wii... Except holding a dual shock on the left hand (yuck)... NOW people are excited for this sort of gameplay, eh? Figures.Is it 100% that Director's Cut is the motion controlled version or just speculation? It sounded like DLC material, or re-release, and I read mumblings over the motion controlled version being called Alternate something or other. "

" Motion controls will not make the game that much better. The NPC count will need to be upped significantly, and seeing as though that was only done on PC for technical reasons, this sounds a little lame and a waste of time. "

It would be pretty cool to see Ratchet & Clank games use the motion controller for certain weapons and items. It would be 100% optional, but still really clever and fun(hopefully).

Why? the sixaxis motion controls blow...

I can't think of how RE5 would be improved with motion-wand play... seems really bizarre to me

Hopefully this new addition of RE5 will bring up to par to the PC version or even RE4 Wii. 
 
I'm not a big fan of waggling, but it worked perfect for reloading and quick knifing.

I think it'd be alright if they offered a trade-in program where you trade in your normal copy of RE5 and then pay 5 bucks to get the RE5 Director's Cut. Otherwise, this is pretty terrible.

Ugh. So the PS3 is the Wii HD now? -sigh-. I was hoping for something a little more original. I'll stick to my RE5 the way it is.

" I think it'd be alright if they offered a trade-in program where you trade in your normal copy of RE5 and then pay 5 bucks to get the RE5 Director's Cut. Otherwise, this is pretty terrible. "

" why is RE5 Wii eddition on the PS3? "

There was a time in which Giant Bomb wasn't infested with console fanboys..  there were adults.. who could afford all 3 systems, and it was pretty cool.

" Why? the sixaxis motion controls blow... "

While the appeal of RE5 with pointing is debatable (I loved RE4 on the Wii so I think it's awesome) I think the real thing I take away from this is how serious developers and Sony are about this thing, and how fast it's ending up in a high profile, third party, "traditional" game that can benefit from it. 
 
When we first saw both HD motion control offerings I was sure that it wouldn't actually amount to much on the game side for a long time, but this completely disproves that notion. I think if this is how fast implementation happens, it's not unfeasible to think it'll be a real presence on the system. As an optional means of control, certainly, but that's essentially what it has been for a while on the Wii aswell.
 
It'll be interesting to see if Natal can offer a similar application and if so, if we'll actually approach a standard feature set across platforms. That would be.. crazy.

Great, now LBP will be even more clunkier to play :P

Sweet!! Can't wait to get the RE5: DC.

RE5: Wii Edition sounds really neat. I loved the RE4: Wii Edition.

Motion controls would probably get me interested enough to get back into LBP again but I won't be rebuying RE5 unless there is some series new content involved.

RE5 extra content is no doubt similar to extra Ada stuff in some editions of RE4. Probably a Jill thing.

I can't imagine playing LittleBigPlanet with motion controls. That game is strictly a platformer.

" Great, now LBP will be even more clunkier to play :P "

Huh cool, but I don't think I'll play LBP with it.

WAGGLAN GAEMS

Waggle controls coming soon to your PS3!

Having to hold the DS3 one hand and the dildo wand in the other to use it is instant fail.

I just wonder what the pricing wil be for this thing. $55? $70 bundled with the Eye? I also wonder how the Eye and motion control tech will impact game performance as I remember reading that the tech requires quite a bit of memory from the Cell SPUs.

Ugh. So RE 5 Directors cut is a new disk and possibly a PS3 exclusive. Pass.

Seeing on how I have the 360 version of RE5, they would have to at least put in more content into the director's cut edition like they did with the wii version of RE4, then I will most likely pick up the copy.