Hardcore Gamers on the Playstation Move?

In this generation of gaming, the Nintendo Wii brought a surge of casual gamers to the market. This is in most part, due to the success of party based gaming and the simplicity of Nintendo's controller.  Sony is in hopes of doing the same with their newest motion controller, The Playstation Move. One key difference between Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Move is that Sony is targeting this to the 'hardcore' crowd. Sony assures its followers that it will take 'hardcore' gamers to a place "they have never been before."


 In a recent interview with the Financial Times, SCEA's Senior Vice President of Marketing, Peter Dille, explains how the Playstation Move will appeal to all gamers in the spectrum, from casual to hardcore.

“Hard-core gamers have looked down their nose at motion gaming: it’s not particularly satisfying for them because it’s not terribly precise or challenging, it’s more social.”

“That level of precision gives you different types of experiences like a [first-person] shooter”

“So we’ll have games that the whole family can play  that are very social , but we’ll also be able to do hard-core gamer games via a motion device that has never been done before”

The bigger question is will the 'hardcore' respond to this? Sony seems to think so, and will focus all of its resources to do just that. We can expect to see Playstation Move released this fall.