A Secret Weapon For The PS3?

A story on MegaGames.com is suggesting that an Eye-Toy like innovation may be Sony's secret weapon for the PS3. In a time when everyone is heaping praise, and rightly so, on Nintendo for innovating and daring to be alternative, many have forgotten that Sony has a proven record of fresh ideas including the introduction of Eye Toy which all of its rivals will be using in some shape or form in their new consoles. This news seems to tie-in well with the Sony's innovative side and with the idea that the Japanese giant had to have an ace somewhere up its sleeve.

Megagames.com's source ( which megagames.com claim is very reliable) says Sony will have a PS3 peripheral which will recognize a user and his entire environment as well as his movements and will incorporate them into useful, in-console actions. The device includes a sensor, which sees a user (including their complete surroundings), and a digital component, or "brain" which learns and understands user movement within those surroundings.

The device can see, track and react to user movements outside the computer, all without change of environment or wearable equipment for the end user. The closed device is plug and play and platform independent. The applications of this tech to gaming are obvious and if this story is proved right, Sony may yet manage to steal Nintendo's thunder in this generation of the console wars.
The source says that the add-on will be available for the PS3 on the console's global release in mid November while Logitech will come up with a PC version a few months later. Additionally the Department of Defense, has expressed an interest in the technology although that is unlikely to affect the PS3 version of the hardware.

[DC RID3R]

sounds wicked, pity there's no rumble tho!!

[Shadow Flare]

The wii may have that great motion sensing controller, but from what i understand of this article, the new eyetoy will be able to sense the players movements and incorporate it in the game, ie. having the same result as the wii

So in theory, the wii and ps3 has exactly the same motion sensing capabilities, but with a ps3, you wouldn't need a controller to detect your motions, an eyetoy camera would be recognising them. No controllers would be used, just the freeness of your body. How freakin cool is that

This is also better cos sony isnt stuck with a controller that prevents them from having serious games on their system (wii).

The playstation has a normal controller (with basic motion capabilities added) and it also has the new eyetoy to do exactly what the wii can do, but with no controllers

Thats why this article describes it as the ps3's secret weapon and why it says it may have stolen nintendo's thunder. And nothing copied here people, the original eyetoy was developed before any nintendo motion controllers and the 360 camera is such a blatent copy of the eyetoy anyway...it just cant do what this new version does

this sounds...so good

[bernie]

I've already got an Eyetoy, give me another reason to spend $600.

[Shadow Flare]

and whats your point?

i have an old xbox. Thats why i havent bought the new 360, cos there's not much difference in them at all

haha

[Wotbot]

i have an old PS2. Thats why im not bnuying a PS3, cos there's not much difference in them at all.

haha

The idea of your comment was to say something stupid, right?

[Shadow Flare]

ps2:

-uses dvds
-had no hard drive
-had crap online

ps3:

-uses blu-ray
-uses powerful cell chip
-has 60gb Hard drive
-has FREE "LIVE" like online
-integrates with psp
-has motion controller
-has HDMI 1.3 port
-allows e-distrubution of games

xbox:

-online gaming
-hard drive
-uses dvd

360:

-online gaming
-hard drive (with $400 model only)
-uses dvd

yeah, my comment was meant to make him look stupid

[Droidbro]

Am i right?

[CardboardGun]

Please, read the whole article Bernie.. If this is proven to be true, this actually might be Sony's key to hold their throne as industry leaders. I can't wait!

[bernie]

Oh, right it's like the Gesture Recognition feature on the Xbox360's camera, cool. That means all three systems will be able to do it, wow we'll all be jumping around like idiots in our living rooms :)

[Aflac]

clearly, theyr copying the 360 cameras features! stupid pu$$ys! y don't they ever think somthin up on their own instead of copying?!

[amrasmord]

what about the 360 camera? where did they get their idea from? from the eyetoy manual?

[Aflac]

sony is just copying these different uses of the 360 camera, read comment 6

[shotty]

Well the eyetoy was copied off PC webcams so whats your point. 95% of PC run windows so nobody copied nobody.

[Shadow Flare]

a webcam is just a camera. It just displays on the monitor what it sees

The eyetoy incorporates what it sees into the game and allows what it sees to interact with the game

As far as your logic goes, i might aswell state that the webcam copied freakin tv cameras

[DG]

Plus sony annouced this before E3 of 2005. Damn stop hating.

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

dude...the 360 camera is just another eyetoy.

How can you guys say Sony copied anyone? They had the patent on motion-sensing technology AND this camera design NINE freakin' years ago!
Get a PS3 because the 360 bites...it will eventually die. The wii will be VERY strong at the beginning, but die due to lack of third-party support. We're going to win...

360 kids - stay on your forums

[Droidbro]

The eye toy is a camera, the 360 is a camera. Is 360 not allowed to have a camera of any sort because some one else already did it? Hello! The whole industry is built from "stealing" ideas.

[Sphinx]

... and Sony's PS3 is going to have an add-on that pours the player's favorite beer from a black-hole like portal, and it will never run out... and each PS3 will have a free, living and breathing top-quality, virgin model to do you every bidding.

[Moostache]

for making me blow soda out of my nose.

That was pretty funny, now I have to go find some screen cleaner to get this streak of Coca-Cola off my monitor....

[FamoAmo]

MS announced this a long time ago!! The 360 camera has the same functions. No doubt its awsome that they can do this but so can MS!! So really I guess MS has this secret weapon also b/c the 360 camera already announced it can do all this stuff!!

[deepio]

The picture on this news article is totally misleading, at first glance I thought Sony were producing a Death Star.

[Sphinx]

The Sony Death Star was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

[AuburnTiger]

Could somebody explain to me the correlation between the eye toy and the Death Star?

[Moostache]

The pictrue is an unfinished Death Star from Episode 6 : Return of the Jedi. The plot was that the "new, second and more powerful" Death Star was being constructed in secret and was the Empire's "secret weapon" so to speak.

Hence the comparison of the eye-toy thing-a-maling and the unfinished Death Star in the picture...

[slugg]

The good guys (Microsoft) will triumph over the evil Empire (Sony) and blow their "Death Star" right the [email protected]#k up (with their already-announced camera that has these features.)

Seriously, Sony, quit f^*&^ng copying everyone elses ideas and pretending it was something you were planning all along. Stick to trying to fix/release that jacked-up Beta-Blu-Ray player you've been working on...

[Shadow Flare]

ms copied sony's eyetoy

sony 'SUPPOSEDLY' copied ms camera technology (which it hasn't)

well i make that 1-1. What the flip is all this business about 'oh sony's copied ms camera technology'? Get real people

And so what happened in that movie? Bill Gates (Skywalker) bravely flys his x-wing, which is running on windows xp, while peter moore (R2-D2 (both their super shiny heads means that peter moore suits R2-D2 best) sits in the back. Then windows xp crashes and the x-wing blows up in the exhaust vent. Gimme a break lol

[shoota33]

its funny how good news turns up for sony and the xbox fanboy rush to post Ms has it too i HOPE.i wonder where MS got that idea from to make a camera thats just like the one sony made oh yeah sony.

[Sphinx]

have been around far before Sony... yes, Sony was first to bring it to videogames, but then we could say everyone is copying of Pong, or whatever.

[Aflac]

sony is just copying these different uses of the 360 camera, read comment 6.

I do however give sony credit for the original eyetoy, it was original (but the only thing they came up with on their own)

[FamoAmo]

MS did make a camera after the original eye toy but MS put in all these motion and a bunch of other better features!! Then Sony makes a new eye toy and COPIES MS motion ideas!!! Do you see now Gametime? Of course you don't your a close minded fanboy!!

[Shadow Flare]

...and you'll see what this article is trying to get at. The 360 camera does not go to this extent of motion capture

[shoota33]

oh stfu everything turns into a sony is copying so and so.sony was the first to put cameras on a video game console period.

[Aflac]

sony was the first, but microsoft didnt copy, they used their camera DIFFERENTLY, and now sony is COPYING Microsoft's different ideas!!!!

[Aflac]

hes got the idea

[mikeeno7]

Sony. Innovation. Sorry, those 2 words don't go together, just like America and Japan

[Aflac]

the eyetoy is THE ONLY THING sony came up with on their own

[Shadow Flare]

-guitar hero
-buzz!
-singstar
-dance mat (and the many games incorperated with it)
-using cd's, then dvd's, now blu-ray (its called progression, you don't stick with old technology. People like you would probably have kept cartridges cos they load faster)
-the cell chip
-the bluray drive

-and the eyetoy

also, you wouldnt be using cd's if it wasnt for sony and phillips, so shut your sasshole boy

xbox 360:

-hard-drive in a console
-online gaming
-uses dvd's (dusty crap)
-uh...
-ugh what else does the 360 do...
-it sets fire on you

And by the way, none of those xbox innovations are brand-new. None of them. Now list how many brand new innovations the PlayStation has created

[shoota33]

is nothing but an xbot that believes anything Ms tell him then has the nerve to call someone closed minded STFU.

[Aflac]

...hypocrite

[shoota33]

Your camera is useless.unless MS copies sonys eyetoy games which they probley will but it doesnt matter because more kids play playstation.

[Aflac]

u must be on CRACK!!!! theres plenty of ways to put a camera to use in videogames without using sony's eyetoy games!!!
More kids play playstation?- maybe, maybe not, wen u take into account the large percentage of ps2's bought over and over by the same ppl because they keep breaking, and the number of ppl besides me who have decided to switch over t xbox (thank God i did, i was miserable with ps2- it sucked).

Honestly dude, ur retarded posts crack me up!!

[Shadow Flare]

"u must be on CRACK!!!!"

"ur retarded posts crack me up!!"

I can see a common theme developing with you sir nathanelia or whatever your stupid name is

go get ur fix haha

[shoota33]

honestly dude MS has nothing to do with there camera and no one will buy it.

[Aflac]

face mapping, putting ppl into virtual gaming (in large games possibly star wars, where ppl can lightsaber duel or something without the regular controllers, but with somethin else--just as an example) not to mention theyre also putting in cardgames playble via the camera (such as uno), they can put it to a LOT of uses, the possibilites are endless...

[The Real Deal]

No one will buy it? Well I guess we will find out before the launch of the ps3 huh? lol...its so exciting. Face mapping, motion sensing...ect...Its an exciting time to own a 360. Oh, I had a camera for my computer gaming system years and years ago and mapped my face in quake. So ain't no copying going on...just innovating it year after year. But In a couple months we will have it for our 360's and Ps3 hasn't even launched.

[shoota33]

Ms just copies sonys ideas about the camera and try to make it there own. then you list things that sony said you can do on ps3 camera.Like i said no one will buy it.just like no one is buying xbox 1.5's there are pyramids of them in everystore.

[Aflac]

MS is usin it's camera differently just as I posted, because I ACTUALLY LOOK THINGS UP (something u should try sometime), rather than pulling random BS outta my arse to argue. so far, none of the features that microsofts camera have are the smae as the original eyetoy's.

Why do u see 360s on shelves?
Answer: a lot of ppl are unaware of the fact that the 360 is being shipped to stores (in small #s, generally 4-8) on a more frequent basis (by the time the sell out, more come in anyway, DUH!!!), not to mention the money to buy a 360 along with games and accessories doesnt come easy to every1, money doesnt grow on trees.

Honestly, why do I have to be the one to point out the obvious?!

[TitanXX]

this site is a place were people flame each other like crazy. Why dont the XBOX fanboys stay in the 360 area and the PS fanboys in the PS3 area.

[Aflac]

Dont be forgetting the real way past wars got started among fans was because wen original xbox came out, sony fans came right over to xbox sites to mock them out just for giving it a try, and were downright cruel to those who said they liked the xbox. naturally, xbox fans retaliated, and so the war goes on endlessly....

PS3TitanXX, I am not trying to flame against u in particular at all. It's ppl like gametime, ssj04/sonyISgod(and all his other names) who come to start a fightand deny facts in their arguements to enfuriate ppl.

[shoota33]

Stop with the excuses why its not selling.people are aware they are there they just dont want one, people can care less about xbox.for the past couple months i have seen pyramids of em in every store.
and no one comes to your xbot site i checked.thats just another excuse for you to come over here.you will not find one comment from me on xbot site because i could care less about xbox 1.5 but you xbots seem to be concerned with ps3.

[FamoAmo]

The 360 is selling just fine you little beatch!! Also with MS releasing the camera for 30-40$ everone is going to buy 1.. Thats all everyone is talking about on XBL!! Also I am not close minded I just stat the obvious and you on the other hand stat untrue made up sh!t!! You say the 360 isn't selling but in all reality 300k in the US last month sounds like its selling to me!!

[ACE]

i was a sony fan but have woken up from the transe ,,,,

every thing sony has said are lyes this is fact ,,, look back to e3 05 ? yeah thats right

they promised this and that and whart happend they have cut made cut backs on the machine and on top of this do you think sony will put a good quality blue ray drive laser in there ?

NO THEY WONT AND THERE ON LINE SERVICE AINT EVEN REAL YET APART FROM THERE PICTURES LOL ,,,

WAKE UP SONY FANS ,,,, WHY DO YOU THINK THERE NIK NAME IS FONY ?.

YOU FOOLS ARE LIKE GOLD FISH YOU HAVE A SIX SECOND MEMMORY WAKE UP FOR FUK SAKE...

[Aflac]

I too have seen 360s sitting in stors (only 1-4) and hey sell out over and over, but they ship in over and over. just because u see stuff in stores doesnt mean its no selling. and as i said, a lotta ppl r still trying to save money, u KNOW DARN WELL that $400+ is a pain for the common ppl to spare. I have loads of friends who are trying to get jobs so they can afford a system, that's just how it is for millions of ppl. And even so, it's still selling a lot!!!

u just deny true reasons for why things are the way they are. As FamoAmo said, STFU!!!

[shoota33]

all their selling is in us cause the rest of the world insnt stupid enough to buy crap.i know your angrey it cant even outsell ps2 but its ok. you are closed minded you moron your crying cuase your xflop 1.5 cant sell cause no one want it.

[Aflac]

360 is STILL not as easily mass produced to be shipped in large #'s, unlike ps2 which can be mass produced a heck of a lot quicker, also, ppls ps2s r still breaking, and a lotta people are still saving up for a 360 and want to have enuff $$ left for games and accessories (DUH).I too have seen 360s sitting in stors (only 1-4) and hey sell out over and over, but they ship in over and over. just because u see stuff in stores doesnt mean its no selling. and as i said, a lotta ppl r still trying to save money, u KNOW DARN WELL that $400+ is a pain for the common ppl to spare. I have loads of friends who are trying to get jobs so they can afford a system, that's just how it is for millions of ppl. And even so, it's still selling a lot!!!

Why do u see 360s on shelves?
Answer: a lot of ppl are unaware of the fact that the 360 is being shipped to stores (in small #s, generally 4-8) on a more frequent basis (by the time the sell out, more come in anyway, DUH!!!)

Honestly, why do U bother posting that the ps2 is outselling the 360 wen u know the true reason why is not wat u want it to be?!

Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it, fairy.

[FamoAmo]

Gametime until you show proof or their is an article about the 360 not selling just stfu b/c come November it will be 10 million to 0!!! And if the 360 really isn't selling it would make headlines [email protected] The only place it isn't selling is Japan and thats b/c they want the Wii not the PS3 the Wii!!!!

[Aflac]

go to pwned.nl

[shoota33]

the proof is walking into any store you moron.it not my fault they sell 2 consoles a month in japan.japan want ps3 and wii xbot.you still dream that your xflop is going to sell 10 million by the time ps3 comes out. selling 200k a month is not going to do stupid ass.just keep bringing on the excuses cause they are getting old and before you know you will be coming up with excuse why ps3 is outselling xbox 1.5