Playstation Move innovates where Nintendo has failed

In an incredible display of creativity, Sony demonstrates its motion control system to the world. Introducing Playstation Move, much better than the Wii because you get to hold your blue balls right in front of the ever watching Eye Toy. Footage of Eye of Judgment 2 is expected to hit at E3 2010.

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[MTMind2]

@CodeIamx - Hate to butt in because you're right to attack Hack3r91, but your facts are not quite correct. You're right that Sony has been investigating motion control for years with the EyeToy (thanks to it's creator Richard Marks), but they never hand a motion controller with buttons and motion sensors, hence that did come from the Wiimote. Hence PSMove is basically an enhanced Wiimote whilst Kinect is essentially an enhanced Eyetoy. Sixaxis was an enhanced MS Freestyle Pro. Just saying :)

[MTMind2]

@tisokan - So back in 2001, Nintendo (thanks to Gyration) were already working on the equivalent of the Wiimote with nunchuck, whereas all Sony had at that time was webcam object tracking. Don't get me wrong, some of that work by Richard and his team for Sony was absolutely superb, but it doesn't change the fact that they had no demo, prototype or patent for a motion sensing wand device, since all their focus was on webcam interaction, which is no more Move than Camspace;

/watch?v=v0srY37kkMw

[TheMicoGirl]

@okabe13wood U r right, its 100% copy.

[okabe13wood]

u copied wii

[MTMind2]

@tisokan - Again you miss the point, it doesn't matter if the ball was on the end of a stick, the end of his foot, or on his head, there are no motion sensors in that ball or stick, so that's just simple object tracking. What makes the Wiimote and Move what they are is the MOTION SENSING wands, without that, there would not be suitable as game controllers, which is why Sony couldn't take the object tracking any further...until Wii showed them the solution.

[tisokan]

@MTMind2 Yes it was tracking but it was still a stick that moved things on the screen which oh wait is like the wii mote, just cause they upgraded it does not mean you can not deny it exsisted to move things on a screen just like a wii.

[waddlerobloxxxx]

CREATIVITY FAIL

[MTMind2]

@tisokan - No they didn't, you've been listening to too many fanboys :-) If you read my post, all they had back then were webcam demos, like those demoed here by Richard Marks, so again, no motion sensing wand or device. Listen to Richard Marks in 2009, where he confirms they used that old sphere tracking tech and started working on the motion sensing wand itself in 2008 (go to 4:41);

/watch?v=tlDXIl619CQ

In contrast, google: 'Nintendo Gyration 2001' and read how the Wii got started.

[tisokan]

@fdavidgomes Hmm copied? the ps3 move had been researched since 2001, and had a tech demo the same year, and 2003, the wiimote was not even done until a year later or so.

[tisokan]

@MTMind2 They had a demo for the ps move on the ps2 in 2003 actually, and began researching it in 2001.