Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 08 April 2008 09:33
Opinion and Analysis
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Gates then says: “No, that’s not it. You can’t pick up your tennis racket. And swing it.You can’t sit there with your friends and do those natural things. That’s a 3D positional device. This is video recognition.”
Mike then notes: “It is easy to take Gates out of context here and jump straight to the inference that a motion controller is on the way for the Xbox 360. Some sort of copy-cat-catch-up plan to take advantage of the Wii phenomena.”
So, what about Sony’s claim that Microsoft has no ideas left for the Xbox 360 and has already fired all their big shots?
A PC World article looks at
claims that Sony says “Microsoft has already leveraged all their big assets”. Well, of course Sony would say that! Wouldn't you, if you were Sony? :-)
The article examines things like the lineup of games to come, but makes no mention of any Wii-style motion controllers for the Xbox 360, something that would surely be a huge development for Microsoft this year, if true.
MTV’s article
quotes former Xbox chief, Peter Moore (now at EA), saying in February 2007 Gameinformer.com interview that: "Since the day I saw Iwata-san [Nintendo president Satoru Iwata] pull the [Wii remote] controller out from under his podium a few years ago at [the Tokyo Game Show], I've always realized that was the right thing for Nintendo to have to do for what they needed to do to be successful in this next generation. And it was always going to be a challenge for us. So, we have plans. This does not come as a surprise."
And in February 2008, Sony decided to give their own thoughts on a true Wii-like controller for the PS3, instead of only offering the current SIXAXIS motion control the PS3 delivers.
So what did Sony say? Please read onto page 4.
