The Nintendo gaming legend compares Sony's 'motion-sensitive' controller to the Kirby tilt games on the Game Boy Color...

Speaking with the Edmonton Sun newspaper just after E3, Shigeru Miyamoto was asked what he thought of the fact that Sony has incorporated motion-sensitivity into their PS3 controller, and that it doesn't seem to have been in development for very long. He replied that "It's kind of what always seems to happen," though continued that "fact that they looked at what we were doing and decided it was a good path is kind of flattering, it kind of reinforces in our minds that we're doing the right thing."

On the other hand though, he stressed that "What they've done is just take your standard controller and add in this motion-sensing device that's similar to what we did back on the Game Boy Color many years ago." Games that used the tilt device on the Color included a Kirby title. "Maybe if they were to completely copy and go with a remote and a nunchuk and two motion sensors, I might be a little more concerned. But I don't think they're anywhere close to that."