The thought of using the dualshock in one hand to control movement in RE5 but holding a completely seperate and detached remote in the other to control the reticule sounds ridiculous to me.
This sounds a lot like really early DS games... and it sounds like it will suck like really early DS games.
It looks pretty silly with that bulb on top. But what truly matters I suppose is how well it works and I have more optimism for this than Natal. The thing is I don't expect the sort of people that would be embarrassed to use this to be the target market. Judging by how third parties treat the Wii, motion support is regarded as a casual gamer gimmick. The same third party trash that is made for the Wii will likely be made for the PS3 as well. And if it's successful with casuals I figure Sony will be thrilled. That's probably all they're aiming this at.
One good thing about this though is that it appears to be for the PS3. If Sony was following the typical console lifecycle 2010 would be about the time to seriously plan for the PS4. But they're not doing that so maybe they're just going to keep the PS3 going, now that it's affordable, but with this new controller to match the Wii. As a PS3 owner I'm happy about that since my console will get more years out of it. And realitistically there is no reason to go to another gen.