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The PS Move Subcontroller is NOT the Nunchuk

Posted Mar 11, 2010 at 4:18AM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: playstation 3 updates, playstation move, Sony

Here's something you gotta know about the PlayStation Move's sidekick, the "Nunchuk", otherwise officiall known as the Move Subcontroller. Truth is, while it may generally function "like" the Wii's Nunchuk, it's not exactly like it.

First of all, this Subcontroller functions wirelessly from Move. Then, it does not require batteries. Instead, all you have to do is charge it via the PS3 using the same USB cable as the ones you use for charging your PS3 controllers.

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Oh, and it does not have a gyro sensor. Simply put, it cannot detect motion. Not at this time, Sony says. Maybe by the time it comes out this Fall, they'd have changed their minds.

So yeah. The next time you hear someone compare the Move and its SubController to the Wiimote and its Nunchuk, you've got a couple of good factoids to throw their way to prove they're not the same banana.

Via [Kotaku]

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I noticed some images/videos have the person using two wands (with the ball on top) as opposed to the "nunchuck."
For example the video with the girl using the bow and arrow.

Does this mean certain games that require both hands would require two wands as opposed to wand+chuck?

That's kinda fail if its true.
Might as well not buy the chuck and just get a second wand.

-1 # RE: RE: The PS Move Subcontroller is NOT the Nunchuk — truk 2010-03-11 18:12

Quoting Fish:

I noticed some images/videos have the person using two wands (with the ball on top) as opposed to the "nunchuck."
For example the video with the girl using the bow and arrow.

Does this mean certain games that require both hands would require two wands as opposed to wand+chuck?

That's kinda fail if its true.
Might as well not buy the chuck and just get a second wand.

agreed. cash grab?

# RE: RE: RE: The PS Move Subcontroller is NOT the Nunchuk — Aces In The Palm 2010-03-13 07:40

does the nunchuck with the wiimote?
no they dont come together.
for $190 i bet you your getting both wands.

# ... — Guest 2010-03-11 10:41

I don't understand, if some of the games are going to need 2 move controllers like the sword fight and the bow and arrow. Why don't the implememnt the all move capabilities into the subcontroler? That way they could sell the move and the sub controller together instead of buying 2 controlers and then the sub controller

# RE: The PS Move Subcontroller is NOT the Nunchuk — TheReaper 2010-03-11 10:51

still think it should be called the PlayStation Pleasure or the PSP for short XD.

-3 # Design sucks — Guest 2010-03-11 10:54

Wow the designs sucks id rather get the wii now. Lol the ps motion controller looks like a sex toy you can put up your ass or vagina.

+2 # RE: Design sucks — truk 2010-03-11 18:14

Quoting AwaisAndroid:

Wow the designs sucks id rather get the wii now. Lol the ps motion controller looks like a sex toy you can put up your ass or vagina.

late. not funny anymore.

-1 # Design sucks — Guest 2010-03-12 10:42

You Sir have a very dirty mind.

no wonder girls don't come for you.

# how — JETFIRE007 2010-03-12 19:48

How would you know?

-1 # RE: The PS Move Subcontroller is NOT the Nunchuk — nick117 2010-03-11 13:52

Hm, the sensing looks a whooole lot better on the Move than the Wii but I'm still sticking with Project Natal because I've kinda gotten sick of just flailing my arms around since the Wii. haha

By the way, anyone else waiting for Microsoft to announce the actual name for Project Natal? Sony just announced Move because it sounded better than "motion sensing controller" but Project Natal has kinda stuck...

+2 # RE: RE: The PS Move Subcontroller is NOT the Nunchuk — MADMAN-_-zZ 2010-03-11 21:25

Quoting nick117:

Hm, the sensing looks a whooole lot better on the Move than the Wii but I'm still sticking with Project Natal because I've kinda gotten sick of just flailing my arms around since the Wii. haha

By the way, anyone else waiting for Microsoft to announce the actual name for Project Natal? Sony just announced Move because it sounded better than "motion sensing controller" but Project Natal has kinda stuck...

Your sick of flailing your arms about yet you want Natal so you can now flail all 4 of your limbs about?

# yeah — Guest 2010-03-12 05:46

i was thinking the same thing. natal is like the eyetoy instead of flailing your arms, you will be flailing your arms and jumping

# woah check it out!! — tenkashicryoutmoar 2010-03-12 13:10

Cool its a black nunchuck! =D! not only is it original! Its lso for the PS3!!!!

-2 # sony needs to get their own ideas — Guest 2010-03-12 15:35

Alright guys im not a fanboy & I'm not gonna argue on this 1 with any of the stupid ps3 fanboys or ninten dofanboys or even the microsoft fanyboys. SONY NEEDS TO GET DEVELOP THEIR OWN IDEAS & NOT USE ALREADY DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY & MAKE IT LOOK SLIGHTLY BETTER & IMPROVED.

That's just plain flat out lazy,cheap & I
I'll bet my money on it they we'll see a copyright/patent war sometime later on in the courtroom.

Oh & also I normally dont like microsoft but I have to give them credit for not copying ninty as much as sony. At least theirs is WIRELESSS & HAS NO CONTROLLERS. Btw I don't own a 360 & never plan on owning 1 again. It's a personal opinion cause my 360 red ringed on me a lot so im done there & plus I really dont like the games,graphics or microsoft's goofy looking/feeling/odd controller or the controls. Idk alright sony's controller is just more comfortable & overal easier for me to use & i like the game selection better.

I've already had a 360,Wii,ps3,ds & a psp. Currently I own a ps3& a ds lite. So my opinions arent biased. They're made from my own personal experience. So in other words don't flame me or bash me for my opinions!

# RE: sony needs to get their own ideas — Guest 2010-03-12 18:53

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/996/996017p1.html
this has been in development for a lot longer than you think. I'm sorry but this was even before the wii and used the original Eyetoy on the PS2.

Camera based motion control on consoles is not new either. There was Eyetoy, then microsoft's Vision Camera, then the PSeye and now Natal, all with slightly better tech than their predecessors. Is that not the same as the wii and the Move?

+1 # RE: sony needs to get their own ideas — MADMAN-_-zZ 2010-03-13 00:30

Quoting smplgy:

Alright guys im not a fanboy & I'm not gonna argue on this 1 with any of the stupid ps3 fanboys or ninten dofanboys or even the microsoft fanyboys. SONY NEEDS TO GET DEVELOP THEIR OWN IDEAS & NOT USE ALREADY DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY & MAKE IT LOOK SLIGHTLY BETTER & IMPROVED.

That's just plain flat out lazy,cheap & I
I'll bet my money on it they we'll see a copyright/patent war sometime later on in the courtroom.

Oh & also I normally dont like microsoft but I have to give them credit for not copying ninty as much as sony. At least theirs is WIRELESSS & HAS NO CONTROLLERS. Btw I don't own a 360 & never plan on owning 1 again. It's a personal opinion cause my 360 red ringed on me a lot so im done there & plus I really dont like the games,graphics or microsoft's goofy looking/feeling/odd controller or the controls. Idk alright sony's controller is just more comfortable & overal easier for me to use & i like the game selection better.

I've already had a 360,Wii,ps3,ds & a psp. Currently I own a ps3& a ds lite. So my opinions arent biased. They're made from my own personal experience. So in other words don't flame me or bash me for my opinions!

so hang on, Sony needs to stop copying other peoples idea's and making it better? then everything in the world would be shit if people didn't improve and only made new shit things, and how is natal not a copied improved eye toy?

# RE: RE: sony needs to get their own ideas — Aces In The Palm 2010-03-13 05:13

thats exactly what i been trying to say
10 points to you madman
its like saying there should only be one brand of car because all the rest are just copies of the first model.
come to thing of it, we should only have one brand of video game consoles, the magnavox since atari, nintendo, sega, sony and all the rest just copied an idea that was started by the magnavox odyssey 38 years ago.

# Heh... — Guest 2010-03-12 22:04

Straws. At. Clutching.

Re-arrange those words and you've got what the Sony fanboys are doing.

# RE: Heh... — Aces In The Palm 2010-03-13 14:41

Quoting Jack114:

Straws. At. Clutching.

Re-arrange those words and you've got what the Sony fanboys are doing.

ok. name one technology that hasnt been bettered by someone else?
besides the toaster

# Move — Guest 2010-03-13 00:07

I like the idea of the Move and i have a PS3, but why couldn't Sony come out with something like project Natal, i think that's going to be way better.

# RE: Move — MADMAN-_-zZ 2010-03-14 05:53

Quoting Bustillos007:

I like the idea of the Move and i have a PS3, but why couldn't Sony come out with something like project Natal, i think that's going to be way better.

Dude you haven't been listening, it's called an eye toy...

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