As we near this holiday season, Microsoft and Sony are starting to gear up their retail plans for a battle of motion control peripherals. It was just a year ago at E3 2009 that MS and Sony gave the public their first view of “Natal” and “Sony Motion Controller,” with both giving their pitches at their own conferences.
Now that the official, final tech specs have come out for both devices as they near their shipping date to retail, I thought it would be interesting to go back and see just how close Kinect/Move came to their original visions. I’ll be comparing what we know about motion control now verses what we saw in the concept and tech demos just a year ago.
The first thing to note is that Sony had the advantage of showing no conceptual footage, only tech demos. In that regard those demos were already up and running…there’s not a vision here so much as a foundation for something better and greater. What we didn’t know about the tech demos is whether or not they would be easily applied to games, or how much of the PS3’s processing power it was using up. Kinect, or Natal at the time, chose to show off a bit of the tech but showed a majority of their features via a concept video (a "vision video" as they called it.)
So, let’s start with the first release of the holiday season with Playstation Move…how close did they come to the original E3 presentation?
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