Sony: motion-based games are losing popularity

Games that users play based on movement are losing popularity on PlayStation consoles. That says a Sony CEO in an interview. In 2010, Sony released Move, which allows users to play PS games through movement.

The days of motion-driven games are over, said Shuhei Yoshida, chief executive of Sony Worldwide Studios. “Motion gaming was a big thing, but as with social games, dance games and guitar games, I don’t think there’s a need for a new control-based game now.” Yoshida says so in an interview with the British website Pocket-Lint.

The Sony CEO does not share exact data about the decline in popularity of such games, making it unclear whether there is still an audience for them. Yoshida does mention that motion-based gaming will probably return when Sony releases its Project Morpheus, in which the user sees games in glasses that contain a screen, so that he would imagine himself in the world of that game. It is also controlled on the basis of movements.

PlayStation released its motion controller Move four years ago, in response to the popularity of the Nintendo Wii, which had popularized motion-based gaming in previous years.