http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/02/rumor-motion-sensing-360-peripheral-spotted/

You know E3 is less than a month away when the Joystiq rumor page has near daily stories. Be that as it may, a tipster over at our sister site, Engadget, has spotted what seems to be a new peripheral for the Xbox 360. Though details are scant, the source notes that rather than holding a motion sensing peripheral of some sort, a camera, mic, and sensors will pick up "full body movement and sound." Here's the full bulleted list of features (again, according to the tipster):

• Full body and hand gesture control of games / characters.
• In fighting games you kick, punch, duck, dive, jump and so forth with your body.
• It also picks up small hand gestures like pinching, grabbing and scrolling.
• There will also be video conferencing and games with video.
• Trivia game over the internet with live images of each person playing. When a question pops up, they can clap to buzz in.
• You can "move objects on your screen" and the other party can see what you're doing in real time.
• Sensor detects only the person playing, not folks observing on the couch.

Between the potential Sony hardware reveals of the "PSP Go!," a new motion-sensing PS3 controller, and now Microsoft potentially showing off a new motion and sound-sensing peripheral, E3 2009 should at very least be full of (somewhat expected) surprises!

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>_>....Ugh. Certainly hope not. Oh, and "dive" in the fighting games thing really makes me think its fake...

dude the xbox is on the carpet he is just begging on the rrod.

i thought they already announced motion control for the xbox at gdc

How shameless...

There, my 360th post in the Xbox thread. That's for you guys!

lol@ dsisters rrod joke'

EDIT: cool story, bro

wow, if the bullet points end up being the actual product, then it surpasses the wiimote by a crap load, infact the wiimote and the will be made redundant...well see what this device will actually do and be capable of when and if announced at E3.

Could be fake, idk.

@jake
now that I read that part again, I did remember seeing some "eyetoy" type device in a MS promo before. Maybe this is that?

This idea sucks really. I would rather have some sort of controller in my hand rather than doing karate chops in thin air. Wouldn't we need some sort of button access? Maybe this is just part of M$'s motion control device.

I bet Microsoft is torn between launching a motion control for the 360 in order to have a 2nd-gen iteration ready for the 720 and risking customer rejection as it alienates it's current customer base.

Oh, I see now. MS' big announcment and the reason they are at the 199 pricepoint is this new motion controller, will be out by Xmas. They are trying to capture some of the Wii market. It'll be tougher than they think.

This has me worried that there might not be any huge core game changes, and MS could disappoint at E3....shite!