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Only One New PS3 Motion Controller Is Required for Gaming, Sony Says

But the ultimate goal is to have two of them

By Andrei Dobra, Games Editor

28th of August 2009, 06:46 GMT

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Motion sensitive technology is all the rage these days, as every company is trying to establish a foothold in the market and make its own systems the best. While things were started by Nintendo when it introduced the Wii a few years ago, now both Sony and Microsoft are hard at work on their own solutions, due to be released in the near future.

Sony had the idea most similar to Nintendo’s, as it demoed its new remote for the PlayStation 3 at this year's E3 conference in Los Angeles. But, as many of you saw, there were actually two remotes that were revealed to the public. Most of the tech demos shown also required two of them in order to track the hands of the gamer.

Speaking with Eurogamer, Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida revealed that, while it was the ultimate goal to have two controllers for everyone, for the time being, the bundle would most likely consist of a PlayStation Eye camera and a single remote for every PS3 owner out there.

“The ultimate goal or wish for us is if you have two controllers, like we demoed at E3, we can do something really amazing.” Yoshida said. “[The immediate goal] is making the entry barrier as low as possible. But because of cost-of-goods and, you know, people have to have the PlayStation Eye camera as well, we are approaching the launch by making sure that all games that we create can be played with one controller and the camera.”

The Sony leader also revealed that those who opted to buy the second controller would enjoy a more “enhanced” experience in every game that supported motion sensitive technology. Either way, the company still needs to invest in marketing the new PlayStation 3 at its lower price before thinking about selling more pricey peripherals and software.

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Comment #1 by: terra on 29 Aug 2009, 06:20 GMT reply to this comment

1. motion control started on a console pradagram with pseye with over 10 million sales

2. why do they have to drop hardware price in order to bring motion control when the wii hasnt dropped in price and has shown that people are willing to part with their cash on expensive periphirals

really makes no sense when the ps3 is one of the cheapest most versatile blue ray player on the market.

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