Sony: Eye Toy has more potential than Wii Remote

[F9zDark]

isnt the eyetoy relatively slow though? unless its sped up on the ps3 or somat cos on the ps2 it was slow and wii movement is instant

The PS3 Eye (as its properly called I believe) boasts some pretty impressive features, from what I read long ago. Considering the level of technology in the PS3 Eye compared to the PS2's Eye Toy, it would be equivalent to comparing an Apple II to an Alienware rig...

[F9zDark]

even a coloured stick could perform just as well as the wii remote as a sword or tennis racket.

In fact, it would perform better. Since the PS3 Eye could extrapolate the location of the stick to a Cartesian Graph of its field of view, and determine its exact location within centimeters or millimeters (depending on the resolution).

[ICE]

someone show me how your gonna play an action rpg or a fps with eyetoy.
heck even try a racer or sports game. it wont work.

EDIT: yeah great you can use it as a racket. how would your character move? eyetoy is great for REALLY gimmicky games where you swat at crap but as far as a real game it wont work unless you use a remote too somehow. you need buttons to play games.

[Shadowblind]

Sorry, but....no. No it doesn't. At least not from what I've seen. I tried eyeToy PS2. Frankly, I wasn't impressed.


The PS3 version probably is crap in this area. But c'mon people, the PS3, like the Xbox, wasn't made for motion sensing, so its crappyiness in this area isn't surprising.

So yeah. Don't really care what people say about this, I know better.

Common sense.

[Accordion]

someone show me how your gonna play an action rpg or a fps with eyetoy.
heck even try a racer or sports game. it wont work.

EDIT: yeah great you can use it as a racket. how would your character move? eyetoy is great for REALLY gimmicky games where you swat at crap but as far as a real game it wont work unless you use a remote too somehow. you need buttons to play games.

Im not saying it will happen, but the following is definitely possible:

the ps3 has 7 channels for bluetooth controllers, all that is needed is two halves of a regular controller [maybe more wand like to allow for better grip] each part could have four face buttons, shoulder buttons and a full analogue stick [for camera control!!!],
if left is orange and right is blue, the camera can track the movement of each unit in actual 2-D space. If there is a pattern or markers on each unit, then the camera can track the units in 3-D space as the pattern can be measured.

I have been stating what is possible with the original eyetoy, because i have experience with the eyetoy
The eyetoy can detect and track four colours at a time.
We also know the PSEYE can detect patterns in 3-D space as seen in Eye of Judgment.

So as far as potential stands, the PS EYE completely overwhelms the competition due to not being restricted to abstract control schemes such as "waggle". Whether developers take the time to proceed past such simple control schemes is a different question.

[F9zDark]

Sorry, but....no. No it doesn't. At least not from what I've seen. I tried eyeToy PS2. Frankly, I wasn't impressed.


The PS3 version probably is crap in this area. But c'mon people, the PS3, like the Xbox, wasn't made for motion sensing, so its crappyiness in this area isn't surprising.

So yeah. Don't really care what people say about this, I know better.

Common sense.

Haha, yeah right. The Wiimote is the worst of them all. At least SixAxiS works without flaw 100% of the time. Can't say that about the Wii-mote. Unless you have 2 candles behind you.

Way to go Nintendo.

[Gold Line]

Haha, yeah right. The Wiimote is the worst of them all. At least SixAxiS works without flaw 100% of the time. Can't say that about the Wii-mote. Unless you have 2 candles behind you.

Way to go Nintendo.

why are you talking about candles?

[Accordion]

why are you talking about candles?

i have no idea why he is talking about candles either.

[sonofsamus]

Mmmm. Fanboys.

[acn010]

psssshhhhhhh, candles

anyways.... its also gonna superb the wii fitness thingy.... it will be a smash hit with the eyetoy 2