Is motion control a fad? Are we seeing a move away from using such peripherals for gameplay?

After recent releases of both the Move controller and the Microsoft Kinect camera, they appear to have yielded little more than party games and shallow gameplay experiences, it can be questioned whether or not such peripherals have much of a place for the more hardcore gamers. Some shoe-horned in features for hardcore games are the only places where you will find hardcore gamers attempting to use such hardware as it becomes increasingly clear that the level of fidelity offered by such peripherals is far inferior to what joypads can offer.

The Move controller is impressive technology which also requires a playstation eye camera (which can be picked up pretty cheap nowadays) It works by having linear and angular accelerometers just like the wii motion plus, but with the added benefit of having a big shining light that the camera can detect for extra positional information. In practice this gives a very accurate and superior experience to both the wiimote and the wii motion plus, but with a lack of software to back it up and no real indication that Sony will be releasing many products to support it, its worthness becomes seriously questioned.

This is a good product but I would be sure that you know what games you will be playing with it first off and don't expect there to be a great deal of support for it in the future. If you're happy playing shallow minigames and dancing games, then you could find some use here, but make sure you know what you will be using this for first!