Playstation Move Makes The PS3 More Like The Wii

Earlier I wrote about how Kinect was making Xbox360 work more like the Wii, well, Move is Playstation's answer to the active gaming trend.


You Can see a picture of the Move Motion controler with it's little motion capture ball on the end, and the associated Move Navigation Controller here: http://us.playstation.com/ps3/playstation-move/
It will look very familiar to Wii gamers. The two piece controller is remarkably similar to the Wiimote, but reportedly much more accurate. These controllers also rely on the use of the Playstation Eye camera.

At $50 for the motion controller, $30 for the navigation controller, and $40 for the camera it comes out a little bit cheaper than the MS Kinect system, and not all games will require all 3 parts.

This should end up being an interesting year for videogames with these new motion controllers and 3D gaming toys from both Sony and Nintedo.

Xbox 360 Becomes More Like Wii

The video game geeks know it already as Project Natal, but it's been re-named Kinect and it's the hottest upcoming Video game technology. You can preorder a kinect set now for about $150 for the special motion tracking camera (EBGames is taking orders), plus you will need some new Kinect games.
The cool thing about Kinect is that it has no controller, just a camera that sits on top of the TV.
PS3 is doing something similar, but will use the standard Playstation Eye camera and add a lightsabre-like controlller so that you still have buttons to push and it should improve the camera's tracking... but back to Natal um, I mean, Kinect.

Here is what it looks like: