PlayStation Move Launch Titles Are Thin

By Nadafinga September 15, 2010 1 Comments

I've decided to buy a Move, but only because I have some gift certificates burning a hole in my pocket, so it wont really cost me anything. One of the main things that would otherwise hold me back is the severe lack of launch titles that actually look good. Lets go through the list, and I'll BOLD the titles that I'm actually interested in:
 

Existing games that will get Move support patched in:

Pain (played it, hated it. An awful game that somehow keeps getting DLC released for it, years later.)
Flower (played it, liked it a lot, but done with it.)
Heavy Rain (see Flower)
MAG (played it, got Bad Company 2, never looked back.)
Hustle Kings (this one has potential, but only relative to everything else, I can't say I'm excited about it)
Resident Evil 5 (I've played the first 5 missions or so, but then ran out of ammo, kind of got stuck, and haven't really come back to it. Move support the has potential to bring me back in, except I've read that the Move button layout can be a deal-breaker for some people, and you can't change it. We'll see about this one.) 
Planet Minigolf (I'm only interested in getting this as a party game, I'll be getting my fill of golf in John Daly's game which comes out next month.)
Tiger Woods 11 (Again, I'm more interested in the John Daly game)
Toy Story 3 (um, I'm 32 years old)
 

Launch Titles:

Sports Champions (buying it, looks to be a flagship title for the tech)
Tumble (buying it, at $10, it looks like a fun little puzzle game)
Brunswick Pro Bowling (reviews are bad, not interested)
Racquet Sports (again, bad reviews) 
Flight Control (an iPhone game converted to PS3? No thanks.)
R.U.S.E. (Not into RTS at all)
Aragorn's Quest, Start The Party, EyePet (see Toy Story 3) 
Kung-Fu Rider (I heard this game has bad lag, plus I don't really know what the gameplay is, very dubious about it so far)
 

Upcoming Future Releases:

NBA 2K11 (not into basketball at all)
John Daly's ProStroke Golf (The first person perspective in this game looks really cool, and is the feature that puts it above Tiger Woods for me) 
Dead Space: Extraction (looking forward to playing through this, I liked the first one, and I like the fiction)
The Shoot, Time Crisis: Razing Storm (Not sure these are my cup of tea. For my "on-rails" experience, I'll stick with Extraction.)
TV Superstars (I simply don't know enough about this one to have an opinion, but it looks to be more of a party game)
The Fight: Lights Out (Has potential, but I can see it getting repetitive and boring)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (I'll probably get this game, but I don't know if I'll want to play it with the Move controller. Will have to wait and see on this one.) 

Tron, Killzone 3, SOCOM, etc....the rest seem far enough away that I can't really form opinions on them, and in the end I wont be playing them anytime soon. Looking at what is available next week at launch, I'm only for sure buying Sports Champions and Tumble. I'll probably get Planet Minigolf, only because it's cheap ($10), and I'm gonna wait and see if I can get RE5 Gold Edition cheap somewhere.
 
I want to be really excited for the Move, but when I get home and unwrap this new controller next week, I'm simply not going to have a lot to play with. Hopefully more and more games will come out over the upcoming months that will make me happy with my purchase. Anyway, it's not like I wont be super busy with all the awesome non-Move games coming out in the next few months (Fallout New Vegas, Rock Band 3, Bad Company 2: Vietnam, etc.)

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