Acting as a major keynote in Sony’s conference at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference was a video debuting their motion controller. Shown in a variety of uses, the system has finally received a final name, “Playstation Move,” and will be available this Fall. Advertised games featuring the motion control include LittleBigPlanet, EyePet, Motion Fighter, SOCOM […]
Wedbush Morgan analyst and game industry-critic Michael Pachter, has stated that he expects that Project Natal, the upcoming motion-control camera system for the Xbox 360, will be available for approximately $50 when it launches later this year. Stating that he does not expect that Microsoft will be trying to make a profit on the hardware […]
Satoru Iwata recently teased (in an interview with Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun,) that the next generation Nintendo handheld will be able to read movements, stating that the DS will need “highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing”. The article also […]
While it’s still unnamed (officially) and still lacking a release date (sometime 2010), Sony Computer Entertainment’s patent of the motion control wand peripheral hints at several possible attachments. Several possible attachment combinations exist for the device, including a slot open for several game-based add-ons, making the wand into a baseball bat or chainsaw, for example. […]