July 1st, 2009

Wii-mote Comes With Three Different Motion Controls Options

In an interview with Gary Dunn, managing director of European development for Sega, talks about the publishers propensity toward mature titles for Nintento’s Wii, about his desire to work on 2012 Olympic games in developing Sonic titles outside Japan. He speaks about the developers he gathered inside the Technology Group, developers that perform the best graphics together with other general game programmers; they were the same to assist in creating PS 3 version of “Viking: Battle for Asgard” and their work is quoted to be tremendous.

As Dunn declares, Sega has a focus in being overall developed in Europe, and with the release of “Total War” they have already taken the first steps. They have also the Football Manager Live on which they are still doing the PSP content and have to be sure of its availability on proper devices. As it was the case with Xbox 360 that didn’t seem to be an appropriate format thus determining Sega to pull it off the market.

As to the mature-rated content for the Wii, such as “House of the Dead: Overkill” and “Ghost Squad” proved to be profitable to Sega comp. That step allowed them to gain confidence in wanting to push the experiment even further. With the “Mad World” released in combination with Platinum Games it was merely an attempt to get behind the products and even though the game didn’t sell good, that doesn’t necessary mean that the mature Wii titles is history for Sega. With money to invest in development it will not be a hard thing to keep the story going.

Dunn expressed his desire to personally work on a game based on the 2012 Olympics, since he saw this as an wonderful opportunity for a game developer, but there hadn’t been nothing established yet. At the same time, working outside Japan is a big responsibility but also a challenge that maybe every developer would grab at, if offered. The co-operation with Sonic Team proves to be very constructive in the SumoDigital, that makes Sega want to take further steps next to them.

The Wii-mote that uses motion control technology from Microsoft and Sony opens a new area that offers so many possibilities in performing good tasks with videogames. This also implies a new way in approaching the things they have for so long accomplished in Sega comp. as totally different styles of games could be conceived. This new technology needs to be considered since it enables them to have access to genres that weren’t to be approached before. This requires also money and time investments into products that have to be created from the scratch. As one of the largest publisher on Wii, they have experience in gesture features so it won’t be so much of a problem to grab at this new opportunity.

Wii-mote comes with three different motion controls options, as well as three different platforms, and it is up to Sega to determine which one is the best to work with.