In a nutshell, the SCE conference on Monday was a terrible representation for how well this controller feels and how accurate it is in motion. The pre-E3 demo was designed to show off motion sensing in general, but if the fellow playing had just steered the dang ship, people would have gawked. In hands-on play, the controller works beautifully. You can weave through canyons, just barely dusting the cliff edges without wrecking, and then you can dive down straight towards the water below before pulling up at the very last second to graze the surface. It works, and in feel, it's more analog than standard stick control -- usually, gamers peg the control for everything but fine movement, but because you're shaking the controller around, you are driven towards smaller movement and more "analog" steering. The hardcore may turn off motion control and just use the sticks where they can, but the feel of the game seems to do the job of introducing casual gamers to the system, while the added third controller feature (or rather 8th control, considering motion movement features "six degrees of control") should offer tons of movement options to next-gen games.
