EA boss John Riccitiello, despite being quietly optimistic about the future of motion controllers, believes that they will never be a replacement for the traditional game controller.

The CEO said that he would find it difficult to imagine hiding behind his couch making a gun out of his hand to control the likes of Medal of Honor, or Call of Duty.

Riccitiello said: "I think we're cautiously optimistic on both, for different reasons. I tend to think that the conversation around the and Move, at least for me... is a very different conversation than Im having, inside my own mind and with my colleagues. Ive had a number of people ask me 'Will gesture-based gaming replace controllers?' I dont think so. I think that there will be genres where the gesture-based gaming, however delivered (Kinect, Move, or any other device that comes down the road), will actually be the superior way to play. Dance games, games, exercise games. Its really hard to imagine an exercise game with your thumbs. Its really hard to imagine that Im going to play a future edition of Medal of Honor, or Call of Duty, or Battlefield, hiding behind my couch, making a gun out of my finger. Ive tried driving with gesture-based controls; I dont really like it."

"My guess is that some genres will be best on over Kinect, over controllers; some genres will be best on Kinect over Move and controllers, and some genres will be best on controllers and then there will be some blend where we might deliver games, which some might argue are best on a traditional controller but we might ultimately use gesture-based gaming for scrolling through menus at times or picking my team or pick one of those and call plays. Thats very possible," he continued.

Thanks IndustryGamers.

By Ewan Aiton