Sony has unveiled motion controller support for a number of back catalogue titles, according to a report published on G4. Repackaged retail titles such as Resident Evil 5 and LittleBigPlanet were among the highlights of Sony’s Tokyo Games Show press conference. However, PSN titles such as Flower, Pain and High Velocity Bowling will also be updated to accommodate the new PlayStation 3 peripheral.

Long time fans of the Resident Evil series will regard this as business as usual. Capcom issued a special edition of the PlayStation original in 1998 to take advantage of Sony’s (then new) DualShock controller. In 2007, Capcom added motion controls to the GameCube’s Resident Evil 4 and relaunched it on the Wii. Virtually every significant title in the series has been exploited to within an inch of its life.

One aspect of the announcement did surprise me. When Capcom’s Jun Takeuchi took to the stage to demonstrate the new control scheme, it became evident that we’ll be required to manipulate two controllers simultaneously. That’s right, folks, we’ll be holding a motion controller in one hand and a DualShock in the other. Since we’ve obviously taken leave of our senses anyway, why not add a third controller to the mix? Sigh…