| leo-j said: @Happy squirrel The ps eye is very popular, so please stop attacking the playstation 3. On topic: This will be bundled with the $179.99 Xbox 360. |
I wasn't attacking the PS3, I even mentioned the PS2's Eye Toy rather than the PS Eye to avoid bashing the PS3 ... The Eye Toy was remarkably popular for an add on device having sold somewhere between 5 and 10 Million units; in a market which normally rejects any add on this was a major feat.
The problem with all add-ons is perfectly demonstrated by the Eye-Toy though ... The device never received any third party support because third parties knew that the device would never be popular enough to justify the development of any games; this limited the device to being a niche product that would never appeal to the masses.
Now a smart company might attempt to combine the sensor bar with a high resoultion, high framerate, digital camera for their next console so that they can use their systems standard hardware to produce Eye Toy like games, perform head tracking, video conferencing, and provide screen pointing capabilities.
