Are Sony Prepping A Star Wars Surprise?

Connected Consoles write: Excited much? We most certainly are. If this image found on the Official PlayStation Community forums is the real deal then this could well be the news PlayStation 3 owning Star Wars fans were aching for, Move support in a Star Wars title.

[kharma45]

I'd love to see it happen, my heart says it will but my head will remain dubious on this.

[mjolliffe]

Looks like a bloody good controller, and if legit, hopefully won't be too big for the room you're playing in.

[sdtarm]

ITS CALLED MOVESABER!! :D

[Hideo_Kojima]

The Move software could easily be edited so that it looks for the shape of the light saber instead of the glowing ball.

Than you could have a light saber game where you control it with 1 to 1 movements and you could also use the force by holding down the analogue button which changes the color of the sword.

[toaster]

Why would using the Force change the color of the Lightsaber??

[RankFTW]

OMG can't wait for this, been a Star Wars fan as long as I can remember.

[A Cupcake for Gabe]

The lightsaber is made of two crystals I believe. One is for it's power, the other for it's color.

A star wars game would be really cool. Please be Jedi Knight IV. I miss Kyle Katarn, plus that series mixed FPS/TPS elements in a near perfected way.

[HolyOrangeCows]

You WILL create a star wars game for the playstation Move. You will NOT make it in the crappy cartoon network star wars universe. You will NOT make it as lame as the cartoon network star wars games on the Wii. The premise of the game will NOT be a string of one-on-one battles, it WILL be an adventure game. And most of all, YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT ON-RAILS!!!

You fan,
HOC

[inveni0]

I doubt this is real, but if it is, it's not for TFU2. In TFU2, you have two sabers. This would probably be for a Move only title (maybe something like the Kinect title--though I hope not the same thing).

[Hideo_Kojima]

I thought it would make sense to change its color to give you more feedback that the Move is no longer controlling the red light saber in the game.

[jerethdagryphon]

i dont think its about a lightsaber

it looks like a move enabled version of force unleashed

[bostoner]

This is awesome if its legit. Its not the force unleashed that's a 2010 title. It just makes sense to make a move light-saber game. The first time I saw the move I thought oooooo they could make a sick light-saber game. It would be so nice to slice through droids left and right and rparry lasers with your weapon. The only problem I see is in battling another enemy with a light-saber. When you clash them together they stop and that's the only thing they couldn't simulate. The key in making a versus light-saber game is they way they work around the clashing of light sabers.

[kneon]

@Guntrol

While it could be done, it's not as easy as you might think. The move uses a sphere because a sphere is a sphere no matter which direction you look at it. Also even with just a piece of the sphere visible it's relatively simple to work out the apparent diameter and therefore it's distance from the camera.

Using a cylinder rather than a sphere adds quite a bit of complexity. If the game only needs 2D positional data then it's no big deal, but if you want to work out the distance from the camera as well then that gets more complicated. You would have to first use the orientation of the move to help work out how the cylinder should appear and then using that info you can work out the distance. certainly it's doable but it is more work.

But the really big problem is how many TVs are going to get busted when you're waving a 3 foot plastic cylinder around :)

[Jaces]

That could be pretty fun, I'm thinking Sorcery like except your battling storm troopers with a lightsaber.

Better than on rails Harry Potter.

[Ravage27]

you should wave your hand while saying that...its how Jedi mindtricks work :p

[Christopher]

Doubt the controller posted will happen, but it would be idiotic for LucasArts to pass up making a lightsaber game with the Move controller.

[Theoneneo81]

Shouldnt the title be Is sony?

[PS3Freak]

You are correct sir.

Sony is a corporation, and since it is referred to as one single entity, it should be is not are.

[visualb]

IS, not ARE, for a single entity

IS microsoft, IS sony, IS apple, IS *insert NAME*
not ARE

on topic:

but isn't SW:FU2 released this year? what starwars game is released next year? Knight of the Old republic MMo?! =O

...i really hope its not some shovel ware lightsaber game -_-

[Mmmkay]

i guess you guys never understood the difference between British English and American English....

[Christopher]

I question why the text Galaxy and You are highlighted in blue. I get the unleashed reference, but I think the fact that those are highlighted seems a bit more important overall to the reveal.

[vhero]

Move would be the perfect output for a game of this kind. Surprised it's not already been done. The one on kinect looked a bit empty without anything in your hand..

BTW the pic is on the official sony Flickr page

[joemayo76]

if true it may end up being something more in line with a spin off of the star wars unleashed series (thats move compatible), or it could end up just being a patch to the force unleashed 2 after all it does say:

"unleashed in 20011..."

emphasis on "unleashed" and SW the force unleashed ships real soon. . .
either way who wouldn't want some lightsabre 1:1 goodness :D

[animelover10487]

I don't think i'm going to live that long :(

[joemayo76]

LOL man, god dammit

+bubbles i dunno how i missed that :D

[Kevin ButIer]

...

Move: Im your FATHER

Kinect: Nooooooooooooooo!!!

[No Way]

I don't think your reference works right, for the situation.. o.O
Seeing as how Luke (Kinect) defeats Vadar (Move).

Jus saying.. lol.

[Qui-Gon Jim]

The person who posted the image on the forum doesn't put a link to where he or she found it. It's just posted with the question "anyone know about this?". That implies that the poster created the image himself. I'm not saying that it IS fake, because it does look really well done, but it is a red flag that says "don't take this at face value yet."

You CAN be sure, though, that Sony is in talks with Lucasarts to create a Star Wars Move game. They are not stupid, they know how much people want it, and they know how big a feather in their cap it would be to have a Star Wars game for Move.

I don't necessarily believe this report, but i have no doubts we will see something eventually.

[kharma45]

If you read on down the thread he posts a Flickr link and says it came from a Sony Flickr page.

[JetLyfe420]

I've been waiting on a proper motion control star wars game since wii came out...

[pixelsword]

Bah, to make it complete (but it would kinda suck if not done right) you would have to hold the saber in one/both hands and attach the sixaxis to your wrist and hold a button on the move controller to do force actions while fighting. if you have that small controller you can use that to move, but I don't see that happening even if it was worked out.

[PhilipLarkin]

Battlefront III!

[Eiffel]

Rather play that with a keyboard and mouse, thank you very much.

Motion control would just kill it.

[ExcelKnight]

Considering how the PS3 can do keyboard & mouse, I don't see how this would be a bad thing: DS3, Move, KB&M... Make all three available and you cater to pretty much everyone.

[Downtown boogey]

I was going to say something more elaborate, but I'll just go with

WTF?

[A Cupcake for Gabe]

Battlefield III
Jedi Knight IV
Republic Commando 2

[vhero]

Or how about a new game for Move? Rather than forcing move into an existing star wars game?? Leave them be as they probably wouldn't work right with Move.

[theEx1Le]

hopefully not some crappy clone wars game....ewww

[Qui-Gon Jim]

A brand new game built specifically for Move would be ideal, but Sony would love to get something out for Move before the Kinect Star Wars game comes out, so a Move patch for SW:TFU2 sounds very likely.

[problemchild84]

I was thinking the same thing: Battlefront III!! Or maybe just a patch for The Force Unleashed II, either one would be sweet.

[awiseman]

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[kharma45]

Probably, but think how well a lightsaber designed one would sell! Sony would make a killing off it!

[mjolliffe]

But it's the closest any of us are going to get to being Luke Skywalker, so I'm all for it!

[Downtown boogey]

It's just indicating the Move support rather than a controller redesign, obviously.

[sayonara89]

Move patch for TFU2 in 2011 or new SW game for Move or... fake.

[sarshelyam]

It looks TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. While I'd love to see a Star Wars game, and it seems only natural, the image is rather misleading and too much of a fan-service to be true. I don't think Sony would make you buy an all new Lightsaber hilt just to play the game...Lucas might, but Sony isn't licensing the tech, unless it's some sort of partnership.

That said, I COULD see a Lightsaber hilt attachment that the Move controller slides into to simulate the Star Wars feel...

...man, I'd love a 1st Person perspective Jedi training and duel game. If they took all of the basic aspects of the Jedi Knight multiplayer sessions and added a great Padawan Training simulator, where you had to learn to hone your Force powers and Lightsaber mastery.

...drool!

[tmoss726]

I don't think the lightsaber controller is the point of it. I don't even think they make that cause it's to freaking huge. They're basically telling you that you will use the Move controller to control the lightsaber, not that they're making a lightsaber controller.

[karl]

well.. it does have all the move buttons .. and the sony logo at the bottom..

it looks real to me.. why would it have buttoms if any other reason?

http://farm5.static.flickr....

[jerethdagryphon]

just noticed that..... ok so its the move mainboard in a saber hilt.... put the leds in a ball on the end yea i highly doubt its a blade controller to long BUT A LIGHTsaber handle designed move yea id buy that

[Garethvk]

To be expected, the Move lights up like Mace Windus blade and then a Green one.

[LightSamus]

I think some of you have got the wrong end of the stick. I think it's only trying to say that the Move controller can be used as a lightsaber, not that they're actually going to bring out a lightsaber controller.

[saint_seya]

i was thinking the same.. to me is only trying to say that..

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

I don't know if that picture is legit. Is posted by a user in forums.

I'm curious where he find that picture.

[kharma45]

On Flickr http://farm5.static.flickr....

[KiasuKiasiMan]

Whose flickr is that? Sony's or the user? Could be real considering how resistance 3 pics got leaked via flickr.

[MA3LK]

Its not even a real sony flickr account, so its user made.

http://www.flickr.com/photo...

[Sevir04]

Insomniac purposely placed them up there in Flickr and took them down days before the GI cover story reveal. The fact that the flickr is also Sony's official account means that LucasArts and Son y are planning a big reveal. To be honest, this is the best way to play a starwars game. with Something tangible in your hands.

I'll call it legit.

[jizzyjones]

Doesn't seem legit, unleashed wouldn't be great with it anyway.
Maybe a POV Star Wars game would be better??? or something to co-inside with the Star Wars Blu Ray?? who knows.

[jerethdagryphon]

force unleashed would be ideal move in one hand navi in the other percision in tracking the saber not necsessarly in how it trikes unleashed is a brawler theres few exotic combos really needed face buttons equal force powers move button switches from guiding to combat and a vavigator to move

also with 2 sabers displayed you simple mirror the actions

[phantomexe]

loved the wii controls in the force unleshed. i'm not really sure why you think it wouldn't work well with move, unless you have never tryed it on the wii. i went out and got the ps3 and the wii version for the frist game and let me tell ya the ps3 looked better but the wii controls drawed you into the game. It work fine for move.

[SpinalRemains138]

Not bad at all. I can see lots and lots of kids going off to the store with their parents for the Star Wars Move saber. It would sell quite a bit.

[Akagi]

Would buy this day 2 for sure.

[BrutallyBlunt]

But it's all about execution. If the game is limited like Gladiator Duels then no thanks. I want a free flowing game with dual Lightsabers. How do you do that with the Move while playing in 3d? In Gladiator Duels you have to press buttons to side-step. Hardly worthy of a full fledged game that is not a side-scroller or on rails. I can see it with the navigation controller but not with two Move controllers for dual-wielding. Even if they can get it with one Lightsaber it could be really cool.

[Bloodlyte]

!!!!!

[coolbeans]

Sure to be a solid game if executed right.

[stuna1]

This is just what the doctor ordered. I'm getting all warm and fuzzy just thinking of the possibilities of duel welding a lightsaber or, forcepush even the electrical powers, using the move controllers, EPIC.

[Sevir04]

experience like the Harry potter game and the starwars kinect game, i'd much prefer freedom of movement using the Nav controller and a Move for force attacks and Light Saber duels. the only way id see dual wielding fun is if the game chances to something like gladiator in sports champions where 2 jedi/sith lords face off, using 1 to 1 motion. and even that would be cool.

[stuna1]

I agree! Bubbles.

[SSKILLZ]

Awesome to the max !!

[ReBurn]

I was hoping for something else. Perhaps a Star Wars game that wasn't The Force Unleashed. But this is ok, too.

[ironcreed]

I plan to get Move later on down the road as it is. This would only further solidify it. The Star Wars geek in me simply could not resist the power of the Darkside overwhelming me to reach for my wallet.