Sony's plans to win the console war

[saicho]

ultima said:

saicho said:

NoCtiS_NoX said:

In 2010, Sony will introduce its motion controller, a concept that Koller describes as “the holy grail of gaming, placing people in the game.” The PlayStation version will be more precise and fun than any other product on the market, he said. If Sony’s motion controller appears to rip off the Wii’s technology, it’s important to note that Sony has been developing its motion control technology for many years.

I want to believe them but the demo in this year's E3 was not too convincing that it has been in developement for many years.

Well, the technology could've been in development for a long time, just the piece of software used to demonstrate it might have been quickly thrown together. I personally thought the demo was very impressive, especially the way the motion was mimicked exactly on the screen.

While the technology part might be true, we'll never see real evidence to show if it was in development for a long time or not.

However, based on the presentation, we can probably say that Sony did not plan to reveil the wand in 2009 E3 since they didn't even have a game to show it off and had to use tech demos. That brings up another question: If the technology has been in development for a long time, why didn't Sony plan any games to support it? Sony has a lot of development teams and they can certainly spare a small one to do a real game around the wand. My guess is that they didn't think motion control is necessary for them or they originally planned to release it next gen which is still long time away.