Rumor: PS2 for $99 will feature Waggle Controller

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vizunary said:

windbane said:

First of all, Sony had the Eye Toy before, and now has Sixaxis. They are not shying away from motion control. Your target there is Microsoft.

The rest of PS2's library does not suddenly go away. Not all games need waggle. I am saying the $99 PS2 would be very tempting for a lot of people because of the library as well as the new controller.

A lot of games are already on the Wii and PS2 (and PSP for that matter). Games would merely require a controller option for future ports.

Edit: Again, I say it would be a geinus move. It would marginalize the Wii's advantage.

But Nintendo had a Powerglove and Virtual Boy and Sony was just copying those with the Eye toy. :P

I do agree that it would definitely take a little thunder out of the Wii though. Anyone who thinks that devs wouldn't jump on this while it's still hot is deranged. Making a game for 120mln users is easy to decide on. Don't froget that the PS Remote would automatically work with PS3's as well.

Definitely would be a geinus(?) move.

 Once again, Sony has already denied this long ago: http://www.ps3center.net/story-630.html

This rumor has come, gotten squashed, and gone away.

But the real flaw, Vizunary, is that the devs would not be making games for a platform with 120 million users. They'd be making games for a platform with 0 users, as no one owns the controller necessary to play the games right now! Do you see people lining up to make games for the new Eyetoy? Or how about even the old Eyetoy? How about the Guitar Hero guitar? There are less than 15 games total for the Eyetoy -- all but one of them made by Sony itself. Every game that uses the Guitar is made by the Guitar's initial creator

The reason is simple: the games are not selling to an entire market, they will only sell to that small subsection of platform owners that own the peripheral. 

All this would do is completely validate Nintendo's strategy. Thus far, everyone in Sony has insisted that the Wii is a fad, and that eventually everyone will fall in love with the PS3. Whether we agree with that or not, that's been their PR position. This move would state, rather loudly, that Nintendo had it right all along, and Sony is playing catch up. 

It's not just that I think this wouldn't be a genius move -- I think it would be a disastrous one. It would simultaneously lessen the PS3's sales potential by reinvesting a good deal of Sony's finances back in to the PS2, while giving the Wii more credibility. Nintendo would dance with glee if Sony decided to do such a thing, so I wasn't remotely surprised when Sony summarily denied that any such peripheral was in development -- not now, not ever.