Sony PS3 to Become Nintendo Wii with VR/3D Game Controller
Filed under: Computers | By: Kerry
Posted on: May 25, 2007 | 32 Comments
The Nintendo Wii might not be the best in graphics but it has to be said that it is a great way to exercise.
Sony has come up with an idea to help with the slow selling PS3 against the very popular Wii.
Sony’s plan of attack is to develop a VR/3-D controller which will be a handheld computer interactive device.
The VR/3-D is meant to be able to take the abilities of the Wii controller a step further.
The sensors in the glove can be triggered by your fingers individually which will help you grasp objects or use each finger to do a different function.
We all know that lately that Virtual Reality/3D game control devices have been the rage for example the Wii Remote, but the Wii remote can only track your 3D hand movements the VR gloves can capture a wider array of control movements.
What if you could have a device that was as easy to use as the Wii controller but could capture all of your hand movements including your fingers this would be cool.
Well Sony thinks so too and may have a 3D PS3 game controller to prove it.
Let’s just hope it is as good as it sounds.
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This will be disastrous for them if they rush this. Talk about desperation.
This is nothing but a glorified power glove. Sony screwed themselves with that wanna be computer (PS3) and now they are trying to steal Nintendo’s thunder. So sad…
Is that a box and not a grill in the middle of the diagram. It looks like a PS2 and not the PS$ in the image, so Sony could have been working on it for some time and couldn’t get it to work or thought the audience was limited for it.
It does look to lack the point and click ability that the Wii remote has. So I can’t see this as a direct replacement to what Nintendo is doing. To me, this is gimmicky compared to what Nintendo has accomplished with the Wii controller. Nintendo gabled on their system, just like they did with the DS. Both Sony and Microsoft played it safe, and I think Microsoft was smart by coming out first… maybe they knew something about the Nintendo was going to do based on foresight into what the DS was doing.
Also not everyone is going to want to rush out and buy a set of these and the $50 controller that most PS3 games wll need anyways. Also, since this is not part of the shipping product, we know how the add-ons usually go and that is not very far in the bigger picture of things most of the time.
While the Wii controller is not perfect, these just scream acky joints in the hand and wrst compared to the Wii controller.
I can see someone desperate out there. While Microsoft puts its high ranking executives to berate at the Wii and Sony as usual is trying to come up with derivative products copied from succesful and truly original ideas, Nintendo is actually reinventing the way we see video games.
They might not be perfect, but i like the way the big N makes its bussines and I´m sticking wiht them for another 15 years.
there is nothing sony can do to get back in the market, they lied and screwed the entire gaming community (developers and gamers) so badly that even if this thing was the god of gaming, no one will care and wait for something similar from nintendo because sony has really put a black mark in the wallet.
Good on ya nintendo, firm and solid company
y’all can say all you want about Sony, but this evidence the ease of abilities to add on to powerful technology rather then add technology to temp market buzz. In english, possibility for ps3 is end less while wii is already as good as it can get. Been cute can only get you so far.
First of all the date on this patent is AINCENT!
Second it’s not for games it’s for PCs. It’s their finger mouse for laptops.
what do you mean possibility for ps3 is endless? That’s why developers are way less willing to develop games for ps3 than for the wii? PS3 already lost metal gear solid. Copying nintendo just proves the great idea of Nintendo even more…
This old news that has already been debunked as a viable home console controller. This is a complete BS story. Sony has never intended this for the home market. The patent is several years old. This has great commercial and design potential. Unfortunately(bu t predictably) it is not an original idea of Sony’s. These devices are being used currenly in technological and medical research. And could you imagine the sweat rash after holding these things a couple hours a day? Would it come with lotion? It would have to come in different sizes as well. Does this sound profitable to you? Think then speak people.
Dang Sony, could ya be any more desperate or pathetic? First a $700 system forced on Sony-lovers, now this. With how Sony try to leach money off of everything, this VR/3D Game Controller thing will probably cost as much as the Wii itself.