EA Says Sony's Motion Tech Is More Accessible Than Microsoft's

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WereKitten said:

nightsurge said:

Basically what he said is Sony is releasing something that tries to fit the middle of MS and Nintendo.  Focusing on the same basic mechanisms that is the 2 point motion controls everyone already knows.

MS is going for the future with it's technology, and targetting people Nintendo doesn't even have yet.  How many times do people forget them saying that at the conference?  The Natal can track 48 points on a person's body, recognize voice and face, ignore background movements, and more!

I don't know about you guys, but tracking 1 to 2 points of motion (Sony and Nintendo) seems a lot farther behind than tracking 48 points plus voice and facial recognition software including the ability to recognize tones and expressions.

Actually, it's not even two points on Sony's wand. I think the distance is calculated by the apparent size of the glowing ball.

But it's not about the number of points... for all we know the software used in Sony's demo could reliably track 500 of those balls at the same time.

Recognizing body motions and building a skeletal model out of it is simply an entirely different thing, and it will be great in this "pure" form for many things (dance games, fitness activity). But I do agree with the idea expressed by other psoters that they'll need to couple it with a wand controller of some kind for most games.

I agree as well.  Like FPS and any game that relies on characters moving throughout the level.  That is one definite road block to the Natal, but I really don't think Natal is meant for us FPS gamers and the like.  Only time will tell what they do with this tech.