There is a massive market for a console that combines cutting edge graphics, the power to keep lag low and a motion controller. Nintendo should have updated the Wii spec to tap this market, but have wasted this opportunity and now the competition are overtaking them.
Sony last night fired its opening shot to oust the battle for the Nintendo Wii from living in the world with the announcement of a new motion control system for high-definition gaming console, the PlayStation 3.
The new system, called the move PlayStation, was presented by Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, on the eve of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
The move consists of a wireless cable equipped with a series of buttons. The movement of the rod is followed by a camera connected to a PlayStation 3.
Mr. Yoshida said that the system provides unprecedented accuracy of the motion. “The games we can create with this system are very different,” he said. “Tracking your body movements, one for one, has nothing ever been this precise, respond or ultra-sensual.”
Motion-controlled games first grabbed the attention of the public when Nintendo launched the Wii in late 2006. The Wii players invited to the controllers in a simple, cartoon-like versions of games such as tennis and bowling to use.
Although it is based on the technology that both the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 is upstream, it has sold more than both of them together, hanging with the worldwide sales organization now about the 70 million mark.
Critical to the success of the Wii was the appeal to the families. Previously, the game was almost the exclusive domain of male teenagers. The Wii has for the first time in the living room console.
“Nintendo did a great job in removing the barriers between people and games made,” Sony Senior Vice President of Marketing, Peter Dille told the audience at GDC. Well, it is clear, Sony aims to recover
But it will not be alone. Microsoft has its own motion control system, project-Natal, in development for the Xbox 360 console, with an expected release date in November.
Controller does away with all Natal, to the movements of the whole body of a player and replicates them on the screen.
Sony, however, is provided first to the market, and with a price tag of just under $ 100 (£ 66) that Microsoft will be hard pressed to match Natal since its system will require an additional control. The prices for Natal was made is not yet known.
“The price is crucial for us if we want to achieve for serious gamers and casual gamers,” Mr. Yoshida said the “Times” today. “The goal from the beginning was to sell it for under $ 100. The progress in sensor technology has enabled us to get the price and superior technology. This is a 2010-system, not a 2006-System .
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