One of the main surprises at E3 2009 was Sony's announcement of its own motion-sensing controller to compete with the Wii and Xbox's Project Natal. Late last week, Sony let developers in on some more details of the system. Here's a partial-picture of how the system will work, in bullet-point form:

• Scheduled to launch in Spring 2010.
• It will hit market with a "range of first-party and third-party content."
• The new controller functions "with any games across all genres from casual to core."
• The "face-tracking and head-tracking capability already in the PS3 SDK" will offer developers "powerful tools for new types of user interaction."
• Works in tandem with the PlayStation Eye's built-in microphone array for voice input and voice recognition.
• Up to four of the new motion controllers can be tracked at once by the PlayStation Eye.
• Sony is considering combining motion control wand and PS3 controller functions. Here's the example Sony offers; "the motion controller as a sword and use DualShock 3 as a shield."
• It will use a lot of the PS3's power: "motion-tracking library has some SPU overhead and has an impact on memory as well, although these will be minimized."

Read more: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/696739/Sony-Reveals-More-Motion-Controller-Details.html#ixzz0JBPnVnQ0&C

---Ssliasil (Copy and pasted)

I dont like the thought of graphics being downgraded for motion controls

As long as they don't start forcing motion into games like Nintendo has on the Wii I will be happy. Resistance 3 seems like the perfect fit for this tech next year. Twisted Metal would be an example a game that needs to aviod motion.If Sony can understand that, then I am exited for PSMC.

I seriously hope they haven't been reading Malstrom.

I guess you have to figure if they want to do motion controls right they will have to take the system resources from somewhere, looks like a graphics hit.

...I wonder if this is why Microsoft added a processor to the Natal? Although, I still think it will take a hit graphically as well when they start using motion controls...

Demon's Souls with Motion Control would be sweet :D It has that classic Knight gameplay with a shield, sword and archery. But im still not sure about these motion control thingys. They'll probably cost you a month worth of salary too.

Using Sixaxis/Dualshock 3 probably would result in droping the control many times.

Yeah I was trying to figure out how they would pull that off myself. It's a means to solve the "nunchuk" equation I believe, but I'm not so sure on about it...