Comments on: An Opinion on Sony’s Face Recognition, the Eye and Marketing

By: Glitch

Glitch — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:00:59 +0000

Darrin said:
“What kind of games can you play with Sony’s wand (PlayStation Motion)?

Shooters? You can within a narrow arc with the wand, but It seems that you still need an analog stick to do larger turns and to move forward/back/strafe“.

Come on, Darrin.

We have already discussed that. The Wands do have the analog stick. And it also has buttons. So your argument just isn’t valid even though you repeat it.

By: JimmyMagnum

JimmyMagnum — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:59:30 +0000

well, thats what the Wii does with the nunchuck controller. Beyond rail shooters and whatnot, IDK how else you would work shooters at least, maybe make an attachment like the Wii has that has an analog stick, that’d be the only thing that works really

By: Darrin

Darrin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:04:44 +0000

What kind of games can you play with Sony’s wand (PlayStation Motion)?

Shooters? You can within a narrow arc with the wand, but It seems that you still need an analog stick to do larger turns and to move forward/back/strafe.

By: Paranoimia

Paranoimia — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:02:58 +0000

The ‘wand’ that Sony showed has potential, certainly. Just to be clear, my previous comments refer to the Natal ‘idea’ of controlling a game using only the camera and a person’s movements, with no physical controller.

For me, that simply will not work with games as we know them – other than the novelty titles mentioned. In my personal opinion, you need some kind of physical controller used in conjunction with the camera, in order to know exactly what the player wants to do. This is something that Sony stated shortly after the E3 demo, and I believe it to be true.

By: Thepreppymonk

Thepreppymonk — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:28:09 +0000

This literally is too much for the human eye, get straight to the point or don’t get there at all. ;D

By: Thepreppymonk

Thepreppymonk — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:26:39 +0000

This literally too much for the human, get straight to the point or don’t get there at all. ;]

By: JimmyMagnum

JimmyMagnum — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:54 +0000

probably lol. The nice thing is, if Sony does decide to push the technology more, they’ve had more time working with it (as mentoned, we did have the EyeToy back on the PS2), so the results would probably wind up being better, that is, unless Microsoft buys out the competition like it seems to enjoy doing. I still think an HD version of the Eye would be something worth looking into if the tech does catch on

By: Thepreppymonk

Thepreppymonk — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:14:10 +0000

Alright, maybe i should’ve put in my own opinion. W/e.
Your both right, Sony only saw the camera as a novelty item until now. Now that MS has its own tech and is pushing it. We’ll see a marketing push and competition.
Here I’m left wondering if Sony did make some games for the camera and showed off its tech, would we be here arguing if natal is better or not.