| peachbuggy said: How can people say a device whch was basically a hurriedly knocked up rip off could have higher tech than something that has been around/ researched on since the start of this gen? Am sure you can't tell just from a couple of minutes' demo. |
I suppose you meant that Sony's solution is the ripoff, since MS's is so different.
Actually it was not hurriedly knocked up at all: google for stuff like "sony wand motion control patent" and you'll find Sony submitting patents about the camera+wand with a glowing led array back in August 2005. That's even before the TGS where the Wii controls (Revolution, back then) were demonstrated. Plus the EyeToy with specific motion controlled software has been around since 2002 and if I remember well it in turns derives from something on the Saturn or Dreamcast.
As for "higher tech", both Sony's and Nintendo's solutions are really simple, technologically-wise, whereas Natal is much more complex. But Sony's demo, geeky and uncomfortable as the presenters were, showed something that works quite well, and even some things that the Wiimote and WM+ can't do (see previous posts in this thread about absolute positioning).
Now the point is what will MS and Sony do with their technologies, as in how much they want (or will be able) to pursue the same market that bought umpteen millions of WiiFit and balance boards.
