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New Eye Toy has greater potential than Wiimote, goads Sony

Filed under: PlayStation 3
Posted: Aug 22nd 2007 by Chris Leigh

Ladies and gents, the “Wiimote beater.”

Naysayers may dismiss the SIXAXIS’ tilt sensors as a pale imitation of the Wii Remote’s more sophisticated motion-sensing capabilities, but Sony reckons that the PlayStation Eye camera, the direct successor to the EyeToy, has even greater potential for motion-sensing gaming than the Wii’s unique gaming wand, because it can pinpoint the exact position and angle of an object within a 3D space.

At least, that’s the verdict from Sony Japan’s Kazuhito Miyaki, Executive Producer on The Eye of Judgement, the first PS3 title to utilise the PlayStation Eye. However, Miyaki was keen to point out that beating the Wii at its own game with the camera will all come down to the ingenuity of developers.

"All of the different Eye Toy games that we've made so far and the wide range [of gameplay] that we have delivered shows that the camera isn't the key device, it's what we do with it that's important," Miyaki told CVG.

When asked about how the motion-sensing capabilities of the PlayStation Eye compared to the Wii Remote, he replied, "In Eye of Judgement it's all about summoning the creatures. With other games it'll be about creating a whole different dynamic so, in a way, you could say there is much more potential and ability in our technology."

So, got that, kids? PlayStation Eye vs. Wii Remote is now the new most popular internet squabble for the rest of 2007, so get composing those incensed diatribes. Good thing this came about really, particularly as the whole Blu-ray and HD-DVD farce was on the cusp of boring us to ACTUAL TEARS.

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I don't know I can see their point but firstly it is all about potential, it's like saying I could get an A* or whatever the highest grade is for you other people. Secondly I think one way the wii remote is better than any type of motion sensing camera is you're still holding something. Maybe you would get used to flailing around in front of a camera but to me it feels better holding something solid. And lastly motion sensing can only go so far, you don't see the any part of the wii trying to imitate running or walking (except maybe the balance board), because as plausible as it is it wouldn't you get sick of jogging in front of a webcam to make your character move? And what about backwards? It has potential but not so much more than the wii that I'd sell my wii and save up just so I could get a PS3 with an PS3 eye.

Posted 45 days ago by Sim

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