The Gaming Experience
Shaun InguanzoLeft-handers 'left out' of new Time Crisis 4 game
May 13th 2008 01:30
Namco ensures left handedness is a disability once more.
LEFT-HANDEDNESS appears to still be classed as a disability if the design of a new light gun for the PlayStation 3 is anything to go by.
Gamer Herald has received a review copy of Time Crisis 4 complete with new G-Con light gun.
Overwhelmed by excitement, Gamer Herald's Glen Atwell waited for me to call 'action' before emerging from behind a desk to rip open the Time Crisis box, before ducking to take cover just a few seconds later.
Glen, a left-hander, withdrew the nifty new G-Con only to find that holding it felt more like the Tree pose Yoga exercise in Wii Fit rather than a sleek, virtual killing device.
It seems the G-Con's front handle, that allows you to hold it like an SMG, has been placed on the left hand side of the gun to favour right-handers who pull the trigger with their right hand.
Lefties, however, who want to pull the trigger in that foreign, distasteful way (with their left hands) have been condemned to contorted maneuvers, unless they comply with the will of right-handed people.
But even yours truly, a right-hander, can't believe that Namco would release a gun favouring right-handers.
It's as annoying as the Logitech mouse design that are moulded for right-handed use.
So, left-handers, how do you feel about this video game based discrimination?
Will you still play Time Crisis 4 on the PS3, and what scenarios have you been in where a video game or peripheral has favoured right-handers before?
Meanwhile, Glen will have his left-handed impressions posted soon.
The new G-Con light gun: right-handers only, thanks.
LEFT-HANDEDNESS appears to still be classed as a disability if the design of a new light gun for the PlayStation 3 is anything to go by.
Gamer Herald has received a review copy of Time Crisis 4 complete with new G-Con light gun.
Overwhelmed by excitement, Gamer Herald's Glen Atwell waited for me to call 'action' before emerging from behind a desk to rip open the Time Crisis box, before ducking to take cover just a few seconds later.
Glen, a left-hander, withdrew the nifty new G-Con only to find that holding it felt more like the Tree pose Yoga exercise in Wii Fit rather than a sleek, virtual killing device.
Criss-cross: Left handers can shoot bad guys while performing martial arts poses, Namco's G-Con design implies.
It seems the G-Con's front handle, that allows you to hold it like an SMG, has been placed on the left hand side of the gun to favour right-handers who pull the trigger with their right hand.
Lefties, however, who want to pull the trigger in that foreign, distasteful way (with their left hands) have been condemned to contorted maneuvers, unless they comply with the will of right-handed people.
But even yours truly, a right-hander, can't believe that Namco would release a gun favouring right-handers.
It's as annoying as the Logitech mouse design that are moulded for right-handed use.
So, left-handers, how do you feel about this video game based discrimination?
Will you still play Time Crisis 4 on the PS3, and what scenarios have you been in where a video game or peripheral has favoured right-handers before?
Meanwhile, Glen will have his left-handed impressions posted soon.
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Comment by Daniel Hebeisen
It would be expensive to have to come up with another gun simply to entertain a smaller market of gamers.
Yet they should have thought it through and placed the handle on the middle of the gun making if fair for both left and right handers.
hahahahaha taking another look at the gun, it does look like they purposely made the handle to entertain only right-handers.
haha see you around!
PZ