Natal and Wand: Impression so far (part 1: Wand)

Tokyo Game Show just finished. Seen the demo, watched the developer's testimonial. So, what's the impression?
During TGS, Microsoft and Sony both showcase their motion controllers respectively. While Natal showed demo with Katamari, Space Invaders, Sony used Resident Evil 5 and LittleBigPlanet.
Sony's wand was used in Resident Evil 5 as a pointer to shoot the zombies. Because the demo is in Japanese, its impossible to know what the commentator is talking, but the interesting part is that the guy that actually play the demo, hold BOTH a wand and a joystick. It may look like he has to move the character using joystick while using wand to shoot. It seems to be more complicated playing RE5 with wand than without.
In LittleBigPlanet, Sony show two player coop. Player one, using a joystick, controls the Sackboy, while player two, using a wand, manipulates objects in order to help player one completes the stage. While this is certainly entertaining seeing coop gameplay with wand, but it is something that Nintendo Wii has done it before.

Verdict: Not sold to wand at the moment. However this is just a prototype, it may be different when the actual game is released. And I'm sure hopeful it will improve.

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