Kotaku
Interested in exactly how much of a wanna-Wii afterthought the PS3's gyroscopic motion sensor controls were? Incognito, the guys designing the upcoming PS3 title Warhawk, told 1UP that they only ended up having 10 days to design a motion sensor compatible control scheme for their E3 showing.
As producer Dylan Jobe explained, the development team knew for awhile to expect something surprising from Sony with the new controller, and it came up with design ideas over a long period of time, but it was only in the past 10 days or so that it was able to actually physically implement the idea and get the game running with the new control scheme.
The wording on this statement is a tad vague, but what Incognito seems to be claiming is that they were warned by Sony ahead of time that there would be some undisclosed change to the controller, then found themselves forced to mock something up at the last minute. Which they did, but apparently it will only be usable within the confines of steering Warhawk's vehicles... there aren't any plans to introduce the motion sensitive controls to out-of-vehicle game play. Probably for the best... it may be intuitive to steer in a given direction by tilting a controller when speeding along in a virtual vehicle, but moving a joystick around feels more natural when you're perambulating along.
