Sony's Motion Sensing Still Lagging Behind?

Chris Kohler, over at Wired's Game|Life, had the chance to see an in-production PS3 game in action. He said that, for the most part everything looked great. The one thing that concerned him was the motion-sensing controller that Sony is pushing on developers. From the article: "The developers told us that although we'd be using real PS3 controllers, they didn't yet have the motion-sensing functionality built in. And not only that, although they referred to the build as 'feature-complete,' they did admit that the one feature that was not yet included was (wait for it) motion-sensing, although they did 'have some cool ideas.' There was plenty of speculation after Sony's E3 conference that the motion-sensing functionality was jammed into the controller at the last minute as a reaction to Nintendo's strategy. This was backed up by the Warhawk developers' offhand remarks that they'd implemented motion sensing 'in just a couple weeks'."

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Was not backed up by Warhawk developers

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The same Warhawk developers who were so widely quoted as having said the motion sensing was "included at the last minute" actually only meant the got the controllers a week or two before E3 - but they had known about the motion sensing ability for much longer.

From the article:

Actually, Incognito has secretly been working with Sony on the tilt technology for a while, but it wasn't until the last few weeks before E3 that they received a working controller.

Of course you cannot be blamed for not knowing this if you only read Slashdot, which until recently has introduced only the most negative takes possible on the PS3 for whatever reason (Microsoft payola being the leading bet among the conspiracy minded).