Sony: “We’re Not Copying The Wii”
At E3 both Sony and Microsoft unveiled their own offerings in the grand world of motion sensing controllers. Microsoft’s Project Natal goes a different route than the Wii, utilizing a camera to track players movements and translate them into control inputs while Sony uses a wand device similar to the Wiimote. It didn’t exactly catch on, but Sony in some ways was first to the hit the motion sensing gameplay market with their Eyetoy.
Since their newest motion control device bears a striking similarity to Nintendo’s, they’ve come out to insist that they’ve been working on a wand device sine the original EyeToy. They released a video on Youtube of a tech demo made with the original EyeToy where they showcase some of the features that are now integrated into their new wand.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am
No, we’re TOTALLY not copying the Wii just because we’re dead last in the console wars and getting our collective asses handed to us by Nintendo and Microsoft when just five years ago we were on top of the game. Just because our system costs two to three times what the others do and we’re STILL losing money on every one we sell and we only have maybe two, three dozen games that aren’t ports of someone else and our LAST generation system has better sales than our NEXT gen system, why would we ever want to COPY the current leader?? That’s just crazy talk!
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 am
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