With DC comics in conjunction with Sony Online Entertainment working on DC Universe Online for the PS3 which is set for release in 2011 and Cryptic Studios (City of Heroes/Villains) working on the Xbox 360 version of Champions Online, how do you guys feel about MMOs on gaming consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii).
I personally find it really hard to image and play an MMO on a console where your main source of input is a simple controller. Having played World of Warcraft I can say for sure that I will probably dislike playing an MMO on my Xbox 360. As I play the game on my laptop I remember that when I first bought the game and started playing it, it was a nightmare not having a mouse as I used my touch pad. Even when I bought a mouse for the game I still used a good portion of my keyboard to map shortcut and found it to be a necessity to do well in the game. I can’t begin to image how they will map out all the important keys on something like a Xbox controller. What do you guys think about this?
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It’s true that MMO perform the best on PC, but we can see that there are more and more developers interested in the console market. Blizzard is planning to release Diablo III on gaming consoles, Capcom Japan has released Monster Hunter on Xbox360 and I guess it is the new gaming trend. Controller is just a hardware and we can replace it with something else, with the new motion sensing technology like Wii, PS3′s Move or Xbox’s Kinect gaming experience can be different or even better than before. Also, there just too many FPS in the console market, having something new can be a good thing for gamers.