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Machiavellian on 30 May 2013
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SvennoJ said:
Machiavellian said:
SvennoJ said:

Ps4 Eye won't be required to be always on, there is extremely little chance it will be an integral part of the OS. Cost wise, Ps eye +  Move controller was already a lot cheaper then Kinect. Kinect 2.0 uses more advanced tech, ps4 eye only adds a second cheap webcam and most likely won't ship with a move controller.

My counter would be why bother.  If developers cannot depend on every home having at least one move controller than they pretty much will develop for none.  It limits the device and make it so that support will be mininal.  One thing I have to give to MS and Nintendo is that they take risk and go all in.  They will reap the rewards or burn but at least they do not try to stay in the middle.  Sony on the other hand likes to stay safe.  They like the middle but it can make so so products because they never commit to them.

The camera works with the ps4 controller, and standalone. Move only games will still be there but with limited support indeed. It has limited purpose anyway. Even if it is shipped with every console, most devs will still ignore it. It doesn't make sense for a lot of genres. Anyway you might as well say why support local multiplayer if there's only one controller in the box.

Sony probably has enough of high risks atm. Last time with the cell and blu-ray they dug themselves in a pretty big hole. They took a risk again anyway by gambling on bigger GDDR5 modules to be available in time.

Actually its the games that I am talking about.  You need the move controller to use the Eye as a game device and not including it in the console limits developers from programming to it.  Why would devs ignore a device that ships with every console and also included the controller to make the magic happen.  The reason they would program to it is because it works.  If every PS4 has the Eye and controller, then developers who want to program to the device can at least feel confident that if 1 million PS4 are sold there are 1 million Eye and move controllers to target.