Motion Gaming - Wii vs Move vs Kinect!

When we were little we all imagined going on awesome adventures, shooting aliens, destroying the bad guys and blowing their base up just like we saw in cartoons. As time has passed we have been getting closer and closer to making that dream a reality, but we are still far behind that goal. On November 19, 2006 we got our first taste of that dream though. That is the release date of the Nintendo Wii, which gave us motion gaming and a whole new level of respect for the gaming industry. Wii Sports allowed us to bowl right in our living rooms, to play golf like a pro, to have a friendly boxing match, to show our tennis skills and to score some homeruns on our opponents, and it was magical. We got games like Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 and Zelda Twilight Princess which made further use of the Wii motion controller. Then Nintendo made games that made less and less use of the motion aspect for which their console became popular, not that they were all bad games but Nintedo quickly forgot why the Wii was made and why it was successful. After some time Nintendo was quick to license pretty much every crappy idea developers had, giving us infernal titles like "Game Party" which is pretty much a generic Wii sports with different types of games, the "PETZ" series of games which if you're unfamiliar with you should consider yourself blessed. We also got "Balls of Fury" based on a film where the comedy came from the acting not from the fact that they played ping pong and who could forget "Chicken Shoot" a game that has been called "Duck Hunt for idiots." The future seemed very dark for motion gaming, and then the God of Gaming gave us a Motion Gaming Miracle.

On September 17, 2010 the Playstation Move was released. The Move came bundled with Sports Champions for the move and as usual the games in sports champions made full use of the capabilities of the Move. The tracking was better than the Wii and the fact that it was HD capable just made it that much better. The bad part however was the the PS Move had very little PS Move only games, there are about 15 titles for the move while other games have been patched to support it but do not make full use of the capabilities of the Move, plus the controllers are big and have been constantly called a ripoff of the Wii controllers. They do share a lot of similarities to the Wii controller, but where the Wii made something good the PS Move improved upon yet the Move has no titles that are really as memorable as the ones for the Wii, and thus it's popularity went largely unnoticed.

Then came November 4, 2010 the day the Microsoft Kinect was first released. Kinect brought us closer to the dream of gaming without controllers, just by making use of our bodies. Kinect put us in the game. Kinect switched it up on us though and released a game called Kinect Adventures where sports were out and adventure was in. The first title for the Kinect taught us how to use our entire body to play a game and it did so in a marvelous manner, it had us thinking "How did we ever play with controllers?" The Kinect required nothing else, you just connected it to your Xbox 360 and your friend coulds join you with no problem. Kinect Adventures was great, Kinect Sports was awesome and Dance Central wowed the crowds. Then came all sorts of Sports and Dance games and the Kinect was lost in that, just a bunch of generic games that were made over and over again where the formula was nothing more than a copy of every other game made for it already. As of late, the Kinect has been adapted into games rather than having it's own titles. SKYRIM is one of those games where the Kinect has been adapted into and has made the game much better. Steel Batallion was recently released for the Kinect and it integrates the Kinect as well as the Xbox controller to play it, everyone's hopes were high for this game but it was released to mediocre ratings, due to bad controls that do not register properly in the Kinect.

With all these flaws in our current generation of Motion gaming which one is really the best? The Wii has forgotten why they even started motion gaming and has delivered one mediocre title after another aimed at nothing else but kids and your wallet, even the latest Zelda was riddled with clunky controls. The PS Move registers your movements better than the other two systems, but has virtually no games and it has become more of an accessory to newer titles for which you have to buy a very expensive piece of plastic to fully enjoy the use of the move. Then we have the Kinect, honestly as a PS fan even I have to admit that the Kinect has the most potential of the three choices, but it fails to register your movements as it should and lately it has not released any good titles.

Drake's Reviews cannot decide which motion gaming system is better, at this point we believe they are all going away from what made them great in the first place, but we are hopeful for the future of motion gaming. What do you gamers think of motion gaming? Which system is better and why? Leave us your comments and opinons down below or on our Facebook page.