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Dec 17, 2009 21:31 GMT  ·  By

Sony is the first big console manufacturer after Nintendo to add motion tracking to the capabilities of its home console and as the spring release date for the wand is drawing near, more and more gamers are interested in knowing what titles, preferably recognizable ones, are going to support the new technology when it is officially released.

Now, John Koller, who is the marketing director for the hardware sector at Sony Computer Entertainment of America, has fingered a few gaming genres that are set to drive the rise of the wand.

Koller told GamePro in an interview that “In terms of the best types of games, I'd say that right now we're looking [at] a real wide variety of genres that can utilize the technology. I think the areas that are going to be really critical to our success will be family games, as well as shooters and sports games.”

Since the June reveal at the E3 trade conference, Sony has not offered much new information related to its motion tracking system. The wand-shaped controller has a sphere on top that is being tracked by a camera, which then translates its size into motion in a 3D space. It seems a somewhat simpler system than the Microsoft-made Project Natal, which might be the reason for the spring release date. The whole system does not yet have a name, even if rumors are saying that the initial prototype is called Gem.

Koller is stating that there are many details about the motion tracking controller not yet public and that will prove its superiority to the similar systems offered by Nintendo and by Microsoft. But the truth of the matter is that gamers will not be impressed until the time when Sony and the publishers it is working with clearly spell out which gamers are set to actually offer motion tracking when the wand is launched in late spring.