Half the reason the Wii sells is price.  The other half is the controller.  Both advantages would be gone.

Yeah, Windbane is going off the deep end here. Tone it back a bit. First and foremost, as TheSource has already noted, this has been summarily denied by Sony.

 I think it would be a good idea sales wise and definatly hurt the Wii, but the Wii would win in the end. The common buyer wants the newest and best thing. Not to mention the fact that such an obvious copy cat model would lower public support.

-What sells better an Apple's iPod or Sony's cheaper MP3 Walkman?

-What sells better, BOSE noise-cancelling headphones for $200, or the just-as-good Creative noise-cancelling headphones for $49?

Anyway, if this rumor is true in one year people will look and see there are two consoles with motion sensing. One came out a year a half ago, one is 8 years old. Add to the fact that there has been a huge media hype over the Wii, and more people will probably go for that option.

And the fact that this would split the Sony devs in half, lower support for the PS3. Still, it would hurt the Wii sales a bit, no denying that.

Its like everyone completly ignores the ps3 as if its dated old and junk, the ps3 has motion sensitive controls as well.

 Exacly, media hype is everything in the early stage console wars

This would just show everyone that anything Nintendo puts out Sony will copy to make a quick buck.

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.

I agree with your first post. If Sony pulled this now with the PS2, it would reek of "me too" imitation crap. 

The second one, I'm not too sure. The PS2 is a dinosaur by electronics standards, but if there is one thing going for it, it's the installed user base. These guys are still buying games. Hell, I even recently replaced my faulty PS2 because of the catalog of games I have!

This user base may be thinking: "Geez, I'd love to get the PS3, but it's too expensive! The Wii has waggle and that's cool, but if I buy a Wii now I'd be 250 bucks short, money that could be spent on the PS3!"

Just playing devil's advocate, but given these circumstances, the PS2 owner may be interested if they saw a PS2 peripheral that gave you the waggle with a bundled game via a peripheral that is an add-on to the PS2, in the same way that you plug your wireless controllers into the PS2's control port.

People buy drum kits for DrumMania. People buy dance pads for Dance Dance Revolution. People buy guitars for Guitar Hero. People buy turntables for DJMix or whatever it's called. People buy congas for that Donkey Kong game.

While none of these peripherals have sold like mad, the point is, Sony doesn't really need PS2 waggle to sell like crazy. All they need to do is offer it; some will buy it, some won't but the world will then see that there is another console capable of waggle (OK, the PS3 has it as well, but it's far from the console's selling point - rumble for the PS3 is probably more in demand than motion control for the PS3!) and they can have it on their existing console. They don't have to buy the Wii anymore, and they can continue to save their dollars for the PS3.

I for one would certainly buy PS2 waggle if only to try it out, but then again, I always buy any controller or peripheral under the sun. I'd also love to compare the PS2 version's capabilities against the Wiis.  

 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. 

Isn't the PS2 still selling pretty well? So it is ALREADY competing with the other consoles, and with a $99 or lower price point this Xmas, it will STILL be a contender. Didn't it "win" last Xmas?

@Bodhetsva, I'm just kidding here anyways, I don't think this will actually happen, but who knows? As for the Guitar Hero guitar, Rock band is going to be able to use it, so that's.... 2 devs, LOL