I'm talking about the PS3's eye toy, and the 360 Camera, games like Burnout allowed you to send a picture to people you beat in a race and such, you can just send a pic through the 360's dashboard, and the most exiciting one coming in my opinion is Little Big Planet allowing you to take a picture and use the picture on stickers. It's pushed me to ask the question why haven't we've seen more of this?

I'm not talking about eye toy psn games, and the likes just mainstream games that allow for this hardware to deepen the custom experience, like Forza had a super deep custom decal system, but not allowing you to use the camera for decals, kind of sucks. Midnight Club apperantly will have a deep decal system, and they haven't alluded to the camera being used. And Guitar hero will have all custom art for album covers, tatoos yet no mention of camera support. And what about face mapping too?

Maybe they are afraid of crude images, but apperantly at least on the 360 I could send anyone I'm playing with an image through the dashboard anyway, also I could just say something crude, like everyone does all the time. Maybe they are afraid of copyright laws, but Forza's decal system had plenty of people recreating copyrighted images, and Guitar Hero's song maker will have tons of people churning out cover songs. Plus they could simply restrict the use of custom decals in online play, so it would only ever be seen by you. So there is no reason more people haven't used these awesome accesories, escpeically first party games were the Sony and M$ would love to see greater sales of their hardware.

What do you think?

Guys will just whip their cock out as soon as they come up against a girl

While I imagine this would happen, I'm sure burnout had some problems, again we can already send pictures to other people while playing, and the developer wanted to they could ban camera content from online play. And if you really wanted to drive a car (in single player mode) with a giant picture of your penis on it then why not.

Because some people don't want to see your penis.

Oh, and it's not sometimes... go play UNO.

My point was you can take a picture of anything and pop it on the car, even if you designed the game so that only YOU saw your photo decals, that would be awesome. Take a picture from your favorite painting, or your favorite drawing(I like to draw and would love to use my own artwork ingame). My kids would get a kick out of me poping there face on something in game, whip out halo snap a picture of master chief and pop it on your hood, snap a shot of link or mario and pop it on your car. Why do people think the only thing your going to do with this camera is take pictures of private parts? I won't, and I don't think 99% of people will do it, only an occasional idiot, and it's quite easy to restrict that content online if you want to.  Plus why not use the the camera for face mapping, what happened to that function, it's been talked about two generations ago, you think they coudl do it really well, now. But no another camera function that is useless. I'm tired of great accessories, not being put to good use.

Quite honestly, the camera is pretty much a limited gimmick. That eye-toy card game thing was an ingenious idea, but like the eye-toy on the PS2, it has little other use. If I want to play a game where I can act like a wind shield wiper ill buy the Wii game. There just are not enough drunken parties going on that need an eye-toy to play with.

Also penis.

As I've said I'm not talking about the all the silly eye-toy games, I'm talking about the use of custimazation brought to a game, face mapping, using photos as decals in games like forza, Guitar Hero, what if in an open world game like GTA you could take a picture buy a billboard space and have your picture posted to the billboard. That would be awesome. Also using photos in Home to decorate your living space would be cool, it could be cool in Sims 3 also. And I'm not again going to explain myself about the penis thing freaking read prior posts. Come on if LBP isn't afraid to venture into this realm why is mature rated games afraid of? Escpecially ones that can incoporate this feature offline. just think about it.

Then what your really asking for is an image upload feature where you can take any photo to build your mask.

Why don't more games use the Microphone?
If I'm playing Gears of War why can't I just command my squad to do something?

Most input devices (like cameras, microphones, etc.) have massive potential, and massive technical and design hurdles that need to be overcome before they meet that potential.

This is probably the problem with add-on hardware, I think you'll even see with popular items like Wii Balance board, no one supports it if it's not included, the developer has to create an experience that excludes it and then doesn't want to spend money on a niche market the owns the item. That's why it needs to be first party stuff that can work pack-in type stuff, even third parties though can do pack ins, heck if you can sell a game for 170 bucks with giant rock band accessories, then I think someone can manage a cheap camera tie-in.