If this was the Kinect, ps3 fans would be jumping all over this.

Is this really newsworthy?

This is just Games pricing policy, it's the same on almost everything they sell.

Well that's £5 to put towards a game, be that core or casual, choice is yours.

The lower the price the more the they think it will sell, then at release jack up the price to £50, and watch people still pay that price.

@deathracer I have to disagree with u on that one when u work in retail u will know the lenths to which people will go just to save a dollar it's crazy sometimes. I don't care if the move is 99.99 or 299 am still getting if I was cheap I would have an xbox

to take off $5 already they must be making some good profit!!

It looks like I will be ordering from Game then.

Only on n4g could this be a bad thing...

great,.. Will preorder it,.. Cant wait to shoot the shit out of you analog stick gamers,.. Analogs are shit for shooters to us long time pc gamers,.. (and they really are shit,.. it is just the way the sticks are limited) Move will be a kind of 3d mouse,..

See you on the battlefield !

And if anyone disagrees ,.. Fuck off ,.. Lol ,.. How the hell do you guys play SERious sam ,.. ( o xbox guys have it) ,.. on anything but normal is beyond,.. me,..

I know some ps3 cod guys who are really a beast,.. have sensitivity, acceleration On all axis set to max ,.. How the hell they can play wit that ,.. I guess they just got used to analog stick,.. or sleap with dualshock at night,..Mouse is still a beast,..

@death racer I bought a 80 gig when it was 499 gonna change my hard drive soon getting psn + so iamma need the space.

"it's not that significant of a drop".
12.5% IS a significant drop. Deathracer doesn't have a point at all. Game do this with almost everything they sell, they are just competing with other outlets.
Go to their website and you will find that almost every game and every peripheral they sell has an RRP of about £5-£10 more than they sell it for. The people here saying that his is not news worthy are the ones that have a point.

Two move controllers + 1 navigation for 89usd (without the camera), I'd be all over it. Sony didn't announce a pack for us people with PsEYE..

If GAME dropped Kinect by that much, the same PS3 fanboys would be in here telling us how bad Kinect must suck. Now they are defending the price drop.

so for getting both move controller and sub controller an overall £10ish saving isn't too bad

£5 off is better than nothing. This applies to the Move and Nav too.

Sony EUs pricing was announced at £34.99 anyway.I also have a PSEye and I know many others with it too(at least 5 or 6 others)so I will NEED 1 Move and will buy a nav pad and extra Move too.Bet it's cheaper when launch comes anyway.It only takes 1 of Game/Play /Shopto/Zavvi/Amazon to knock a fiver off each and they'll all be at it.
I didn't want Move for me(my son wanted it)but recent hands on(I've read.Techradar/IGN/PSM3) have changed my mind.I'll use it for shooters and if Sony are smart they'll put everyone in the same games online.How amny Moves will be sold by "how did you shoot me that fast and accurate".Answer "I used Move" reply "I'm buying one"

Are you people seriously arguing about getting a discount on the Move? What, fanboys don't like to save money?

The original price was more than likely a placeholder.
It was probably an slightly high estimate based on the US price, so they could give potential customers an idea and start getting pre-orders going.
Once they get word of the official UK price, and what competitors are charging they can adjust it to suit - and by being higher to start with, all those who ordered it before the change will get an e-mail telling them of the change and think 'oh, that's nice.'

Bear in mind, there was also a budget here this week, and they might have wanted to leave in a little wiggle room should he put up VAT.

Game might have reduced the price just to help pre-orders along. They do this with special edition games (such as for Uncharted 2). They reduce the pre-order price, but when the game ships, the price fo the pre-order goes bakc up and matches the standard retail price.

...and yes I have placed my pre-order for the Move and Subcontroller. I'm hoping to get a second move controller which inevitably will be bundled with a game (sports champions I'm looking at you)!

I'll wait for Shopto.net's price. Move has me sold with Time Crisis and Heroes on the Move anyway. That's good enough killer apps for me.

they're selling the navigation and other controller seperately(you'll need both) total equals 70 pounds

wonder what ms fans will say if kinect get's a price cut on release does that mean it's a fail too?? when will you biased lot realise this is what happened with wimmote and now to move, we all know how well the wiimote took off so maybe perhaps they can afford reductions due to the large pre-orders, yes you can pre-order the move in the uk, I talked to game they expect huge move sales....

isnt it gorgeous how we treat animals.

That’s Zuckermans famous pig.

Move controller was extremely accurate great times back then

That definitely would have been the absolute worst time for stick drift to happen...

I always wanted a true to life surgery simulator for PSVR1. I always knew those Move controllers were precise AF under the proper conditions.

Move was a very accurate device under good conditions. Dr Marks even wanted to open it up for hobbyists and developers to extract more data to do more things. I even seen him use it for space, astronaut like simulations.

Sony always had the tech. They just needed the software to go with it. PS Move limit was not having an analog stick. Which it seems the PS5 controller made up for that.

I would like to see them use PS VR 2 for surgery or something with that eye tracking built in.

At least it wasn’t used for a mini-sub

It failed because motion controls can’t beat traditional controls. I’ll admit the tech has come ways since then but I will always choose a controller over a wand.

It was just a terrible controller. It was so crap that Sony refused to waste any more time or money fixing it. Despite me loving PSVR, the move controllers were the biggest let down of the generation. Always felt like they were a generation behind. Even for the ps3 days.

As a stand alone it failed. But it worked well for VR. But I'm glad to see the end of them with PSVR2.

It failed because it wasn't good and didn't have games. Even the wii was a trend and people are over controllers like that for games.

Little early to call Playstation VR a success too. Like other VR platforms it's a niche product and it's easily the worst VR headset, it's cheap so that helps.

It actually didn't fail or was a failure. It sold around 15 million before VR even showed up and had many games to play. Who knows how many more millions of the device were sold for PSVR. Especially when two are required for more immersive hands on gaming like Iron Man or Blood and Truth.

Dr Marks created Move as for some experiences but he knew that the Eyetoy and PS Move weren't core experiences for everybody like the Dual Shock controller. He's said that many times in interviews. It wasn't to take over regular couch controller gaming.

PS Move not only had titles for casuals to play for motion gaming on PS3, you could also play core games like Killzone and Resistance. Unlike its competitors, Wii and Kinect.

Unlike its competitors, PS Move continues to live on and be sold for VR. Wii motion gaming is pretty much dead. And Kinect itself is dead. All those casuals that propped up those other devices, went off to play on their cellphones. Basically making them a fad that didn't last. PS Move continues to be used and works on PS5 and can continue to be used for the life of PS5 for those using PSVR 1. That's 3 generations that PS Move will have been used.

Maybe the writer needs to make an article on why the Wiimote and Kinect are dead and can't be used on Switch or Series S/X. While PS Move continues to exist.

PS Move was the best form of motion gaming of the last, last generation. Wiimote and Kinect were technically far worse than the PS Move. Only Wiimotion Plus could compare and it was too little too late, with only one or two marquee titles proving the 'Plus' being a worthwhile upgrade.

While there weren't enough PS Move games, at least there were some true 'core games' that supported it, from KillZone 3 to Resident Evil 5. Something that Microsoft's 'casual motion system' could not offer, and most Nintendo Wii games didn't offer traditional controller support, whereas PS3 games almost always had a DualShock 3 option.

I'm a big fan of light gun shooters, and both Wiimote and PS Move ushered back in this genre, something the Kinect couldn't do as well. If you think the PS Move "sucked", then go back and play the light gun shooters on it, something not available on 360, Switch, PS4, XBO, XBSX, PS5.

After the PS Move, we did get one light gun system for consoles, the PDP Mars, and I can assure you, the tech inside that thing is truly unreliable junk.

So to sum it up, the last, last generation had three different motion control styles:
Microsoft - went straight stupid with Kinect, and was overall the least reliable worst experience.
Nintendo - all games supported Wiimote, but this was often to its detriment, not enough games supported traditional controls.
Sony - didn't have a ton of PS Move games, but the overall library supported traditional controls (this is overall the best outcome).

Only ever bought a couple Move-only games like Sorcery and the Fight, but I’ve gone ape over PSVR! I’ll always choose the sticks over the controller given the choice for VR. Big fan now.

Nintendo had better marketing and seemed like the real thing.

Xbox and playstation seemed like imitation.

Well,

The "failure" has a controller for the PSVR and soon the PS5 VR.

For all the Wii's success, where is the Wiimote? And Kinect, yeah MS literally took away any functions on the xbox one with updates.

move had some great games and was an awesome "peripheral". if you played wonderbook or resistance then you would probably agree with me.

Failed because there wasn't enough games or "arcade classics" that used the Move. Still use it to play Time Crisis and HOTD from time to time

Wouldn't say failed given its second life as a PSVR option

I had one and beyond the initial “wow this is cool” hour after unboxing it, it basically sat in a cupboard gathering dust.

It wasn’t that fun or revolutionary really when we already had the wiimote, Kinect was more interesting from a technology standpoint but ultimately, the only good motion games were on Wii - not Xbox or PS.

The move was Sony attempt to cash in on the wii craze. Hell, the last article about the move that actually generated a lot of heat on here was over 4,000 days ago. Nobody talks about this, VR, or the vita until someone shames it.. then all the defenders come out the woodworks.

It is basically only peripheral being used for 3 generations,.. So how is it a fail,.. ?? Still being used for Beat Saber, BoxVR,... I heard it was really hard to get. Article is just shit.

Another one of Sony's demented ideas like PS Home and the PSP Go.

I think the problem that Sony faced with the PS move was the PR marketing mess they created around the thing.
1) if it was aimed toward casual well there was nothing casual about setting understanding what you would need to play a game (some require only the camera, others 1 move and some 2 moves)
2) If it was aimed at a more core audience then sorry but the game library was quite small or non-existant.
3) Wonderbook

If Sony would have communicated better and support better the Move I think it would have fared a lot better
My personal favorite game is Tiger wood PGa 11, because the Psmove really makes the game shine.

wait, it failed?

for me it failed because it never went down in price and only a handful of games appealed to me on it
mainly no more heroes and the resident evil cronicles games

It wasn't useful until VR came along but it hindered VR due to its lack of analogue stick. Fortunately psvr2 isn't just using old hardware because of the excess amount of stock available

Failed? What spanned 3 generations and still being sold. Tidy little profit for Sony if you ask me.
Shouldn't this conversation be kinect failed?

The move controller was and still is great for FPS games, I used them alot with killzone 3, socom 4 and MAG. The deadzone aiming was very very competitive, just as good as mouse and keyboard if set up right. It was comfortable to use too in conjunction with the separate analog move controller in the other hand. Imo it has been under utilised and could still be used today in most shooters.

The reason the MOVE failed is obvious. Motion gaming is for casual gamers and Nintendo did an incredible and much better job marketing to them. At the time where casuals were all in gaming on the phone, the Wii brought them to consoles. However, Playstation is a core gamer machine just like XBOX and as the article stated the cost to enter for casual gamers was not only a barrier but even the look of them (heard people say MOVE looks like a sex toy). All these peripheral things fail because most core gamers are not into these things like Home, 3D Gaming, Move, Kinect, and yes I'm saying it, VR. Core gamers support is the consistent life of gaming.

The casual gamer may stick around for a little bit like the Wii because of the fad and hype for non-core gamers but those folks eventually move on to something else. VR was to be that next thing but it has not caught on as big as the Wii with casual gamers. To its credit it has caught on more with some core gamers but as a VR owner, its losing a lot of steam.

If Sony wants to do the smart thing, MOVE on from VR because it will not be supported by most gaming companies that make games for core gamers who don't want to be wearing goggles for hours. Casuals will not be spending the huge investment of a PS5 for them to play PSVR.

I went to a conference in Seattle right when the Moves were announced that was dedicated specifically to showcasing them. We went out for drinks with some of the execs that were there and we specifically asked them, "why are there no thumbsticks on these things!?" They told us that they didn't want to create a controller with multiple movement inputs because it would confuse people. I told them that that very decision is what's going to doom the controller. And sure enough, even with the Navigation controller, they couldn't create enough software to justify any hype around it.

My own opinion is that it just wasn’t that appealing, the dildo controllers and the lack of worth while games kept it back.

Lack of an analog stick on it in my opinion.