http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/ Engadget Comments for PS3 Motion Controller confirmed for next spring, finally ready for its close-ups http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
Not interested. No appeal whatsoever.]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
Where's the analog stick?]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 24th 2009 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
While wii ports may be more difficult/not possible, NATAL probably will survive as an augmenting control device; I could definitely see some devs adding in some code to allow for standard game controller controls, coupled with QTE events that're NATAL-controlled. The criticism you often hear of motion games is that they get old/repetitive/tiresome quickly, so this sort of spotty implementation may be more effective than one might think.]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
thats what she said?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/The thing with Natal but is technically there would be nothing stopping you from having a controller and buttons as well as the sensors to handle the positioning aspect. Sony's solution on the other hand gives no such option.

I'd be very suprised if a small controller designed to rest in the palm of your hand isn't released at some point to provide buttons or a joystick to complement Natals motion sensing capabilities.]]>Sep 24th 2009 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 24th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
A wand with some buttons is about as far as I'll go because you can still relax and sit down for that sometimes.]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
It can track your movement, they already did this stuff with the Eyetoy for PS2 and with the games for the PSEye now. But no one wants to do that stuff. Have you ever used the PSEye? There are DL's for it on the PSN and they are inexpensive. In my opinion, seems to track movement just the same.

If they wanted to track your body plus the movement of the controllers and add the functionality of the controller's button, I am sure it would just take some time to figure out how to do it.

The only thing I see Natal "doing" other than the Eye is the whole "talking to the character" thing, which will not happen this generation, I promise you. If we don't have supercomputers that can have a conversation with us, how are we going to do this with the XBOX 360?

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There you go, kids. Now that you've read the obligatory "oh so funny" word, drink your glass of milk and go to bed.]]>Sep 24th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 24th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 24th 2009 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
Don't be so quick to write it off :)]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 24th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
Other than that, it looks good.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/Sep 23rd 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ps3-motion-controller-confirmed-for-next-spring-finally-ready-f/
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