Sony Talks High Velocity Bowling/Wii Sports Bowlin:

It’s a pretty common misconception that High Velocity Bowling is Sony’s “answer” to Wii Sports Bowling. We came up with the idea of using the SIXAXIS controller for bowling on August 23rd, 2006 - I know the exact date because it was my birthday…Eddy Cramm (who is a Sr. Designer on MLB ‘07) and I had taken the day off to get a couple rounds of golf in, a rare luxury these days. Out on the course, we talked about using the controller as a bowling interface (we both carry 200+ averages in our current bowling league) and both loved the idea. He sent a text message to our studio director that night and my team (small, but dedicated) started work on it the next day. While we weren’t surprised by the inclusion of bowling in Wii Sports a month later, we knew that we were taking it a step further once that game launched.

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This is an excerpt from an article abaut  Sony’s High Velocity Bowling Didn’t Copy WiiSports by joystiq

MTV ninja Stephen Totilo infiltrated the tooth-decaying sugar-fluff of Sony Gamers’ Day and shoved his mic into High Velocity Bowling developer Scott Rohde’s face, asking him the tough question: Dude, like, you know everyone’s sayin’ you just copied Nintendo … so, like, you did, right? Maybe not. With the lens carefully trained on his San Diego tan, Rohde’s fired back with a little-known factoid, “Before we knew that Wii Bowling was coming out we were building [High Velocity], absolutely.” You sure about that, Scott? ‘Cause Nintendo confirmed ‘Bowling’ back in September ‘06. “We started working on it, literally, right before that … and we had a prototype up in place when [Wii Sports] came out,” alleged Rohde.

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Sony announced its very own High Velocity Bowling game that utilizes the Sixaxis’ motion controls. You literally flip the controller on its side, hold it with your thumb between the analog sticks, and then sweep your arm gracefully along an arc while holding and releasing one of the buttons to send your ball down the alley. (more…)

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