Thursday, March 11, 2010

Sony's motion controller named 'Playstation Move', priced under $100


By Plugged In - Yahoo! Games

"Sony is on the Move.

During an event at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, the company officially unveiled the name of their upcoming Playstation 3 motion control device: Playstation Move. The controller will hit shelves this fall.

'It's fast, precise and accurate,' said Peter Dille, Sony's senior VP of marketing. 'We like to think this is the next generation of motion-gaming...we're really approaching this as a platform launch.'

Sony's response to the Nintendo Wii remote, the Playstation Move system requires both the new wand controller and the Playstation Eye camera to work. Though exact pricing has not been set, Sony confirmed that a 'starter kit' of one controller, one Playstation Eye and one game will be sold for under $100. The Move will also be sold as a standalone product or bundled with the Playstation 3 system itself.

The Move packs a ton of tech into its slim controller. A three-axis gyroscope, a three-axis accelerometer and a magnetic field sensor work in tandem with the camera to purportedly provide more accurate spatial recognition than the Wii remote."

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