Sony Patents Motion-sensitive Break Apart Controller

the curve at the end will stimulate the prostate

Nintendo just shit them selves...

"Lets have an emergency meeting ASAP, damn it we are going to have to invest in better graphics hardware this time around, I guess we can’t re use the Wii for the Wii 2."

This looks fucking terrible.

I think everyone is missing the big picture here. Lets just look at the possibilities that Sony could potentially achieve with releasing this add-on.

Facts:
PS3 80 gig = $399
Wii = $269.99
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Difference of $130
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System difference what you get for the $130
Fact:
- Up to 1080p resolution
- 7.1 True HD sound Dolby DTS, optical sound
- 80 gig harddrive
- 256 meg GPU, much better graphics
- Cell CPU 7 cores to Wii’s 1 core lower speed cpu
- Blue Ray DVD player
- Xbox Live like Market Place / Online gaming portal (PSN)
- Can be a linux computer
- there are more benifits but that should be enough for my point

Having said all that lets say the consumer has to pay an extra $49.99 for the new controller.
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Difference of $180 * note you cannot buy a Blue Ray dvd player for $180 *

Bottom line if someone in marketing did a good job you could easily convert all the Wii owners to get a PS3 unit for just an extra $180 dollars. How many Wii games is that? Oh ya average $50, so for only 3 an a half Wii games.

Sony could potentially rule the market if consumers would see the value and convert and enjoy what they love on a space ship command center and not a horse and buggy.

Interesting no? Once this controller is out and gets support why on earth would any one buy a Wii?

Ultrasonic?!?!
As a person that has worked with ultrasonic sensors.. this will not work, it will be garbage.

Hey guys! not all of us give a damn about motion sensitive controllers, we know it's the hip new thing for one demographic, doesn't mean others couldn't care less about it............

It is horrible. Looks like something alien abductors use to investigate body orifices. Fresh from Area 52.

Please god enough with motion controlling anything. Leave that for the Wii. If people want to play their games like that, let them on the Wii. Keep this out of my Xbox and Ps gaming though.. Please.

so how is this different from the wiimote?

Looks more like a "marital aid" to me....(but then don't they all?)

I can't help but laugh at how much it looks like a sex toy.

REZ 2?

Balls of Plastic!

What the hell is it?

I read the news post, I read it again.

What the hell is it?

I wanna ride that thing to work. Back to the Future style preferably...

They are obviously trying to compete with Wii's innovation. The problem is: will enough developers use it despite the fact that almost noone has it at first? The wii has an advantage in that the motion sensitive controller is the standard way to interact with the console. Everyone with a Wii, has at least one wiimote (or if they don't they aren't using their wii anyhow). Guitar Hero took a risk and created a game and controller. Lucky for them their risk was worth it and the world now had a new standard controller to work with. (And with the current generation of guitar hero 4 and rock band 2, guitar compatibility is now pretty consistent). The wii had two advantages that were key to it's being adopted 1) it's the next nintendo product and a lot of people dig nintendo games and 2) they sold the wii and it's motion controller with an awesome game that everyone wanted (wii sports).

So, in order for the PS3's new motion controller to succeed 1) they're going to have to make a killer unique game that everyone will want to play (including people who don't have a ps3) and 2) they're going to have to make the ps3 cheaper too. It also wouldn't hurt to sell the game with the new controller.

this looks awful... i hope the picture of that guy holding it over his head isn't to scale... or this thing is what... 2 feet long?

It's a wii-wii mote

it looks kind of neat...though sort of awkward...if it does 1:1 motion then sweet

hard to tell without looking an actual product

Dayum.

lol

This thing looks like it should have different vibration settings...

LOL