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S.T.A.G.E. on 21 January 2012
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Pemalite said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

In Nintendos defense they create new ways to play. Microsoft never created Kinect, Sony turned it down and Microsoft scooped it up from under them. Just shows you that Sony is more focused on what a peripheral can do rather than having nothing but casuals using it for one or two games.


In Microsofts defense... They did allot of software engineering which *is* the hard part, especially to make all the Kinect processing incredibly efficient on such a low-powered processor.
Essentially it's just a bunch of sensors/cameras with a micrphone, making them all talk to each other and recognise things in real time with as little amount of latency and processing/memory usage overhead as possible.

Sony isn't as skilled as Microsoft in software engineering, it's Microsoft's bread and butter afterall being primarily a software development company.
Sony's forte' has always been in the hardware, hence why it's Operating System consumes more resources than Microsofts on the Xbox.

Sony though basically just copied and improved on the Wii's style of motion control but wen't about it's implementation a little differently.
Although it's still great it's still not nearly as ground breaking as the Wii or the Kinect on release, most people view it as a Wii clone.


....Um.....Sony wasnt impressed at Kinect because they had the Eyetoy and it they didnt believe core gamers could use it. Their respect went to Nintendo so they took what Nintendo innovated and added it to their technology they already had. The move is far more accurate than the Kinect, but to its demise its harder to use and more core friendly. Its a Kinect + Wii mote on crack and you actuall have to move when you use it. The Wii motion plus had to be created to combat how good the Move was because Nintendo knew the Wii wasnt 1:1 tracking. Sony has been using video tracking in gaming since last gen. The only thing kinect has over the move is more cameras and voice acknowledgement. Simply put, the move does what Kinect or Wii cannot do withouut each other. It can scan you while you're playing and provide depth and complete control in an augmented reality environment or even 3D. Hell Sony even has 3D TV's and glasses which two people can use the same TV but feel like they are using two different TV's.

I was on it today at Best Buy with a friend playing Motorstorm. It was freaking amazing. Sony has the right idea and I can confirm how amazing their products are.....they just suck horribly at marketing them. I never knew the 3D TV was that great. The commercials are more entertainment than educational where as Microsofts marketing makes the 360 look like the place to be when truly the only true place to be on it is Live and even that will be open season next gen when Sony can make the PS4 have cross chat because the PS3 cant handle it. Sony needs to bless the casuals with some games because they are proving they care more about the core than the casual by leaps and bounds. You may like Microsoft or Nintendos games more but the steadiest provider of quality exclusive titles this whole gen has been Sony.