Sony launches PS3 in the assault on the Wii
Response. In San Francisco the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Sony has provided details on its controller wireless control for its home console PlayStation 3 (PS3), at a conference for designers of video games. Using this kind of remote topped by a white sphere that changes color depending on the phases of the game, the Tokyo group hopes to outdo the Wii from Nintendo. It is possible to reproduce on-screen hand movements and body of the player. "Our controller PlayStation Move Motion Controller, with a camera placed above the screen and game will be sold at least $ 100 in the fall," says one Sony in France, without specifying the European price.
New public
With its controller "Wii Remote" Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, has attracted a new audience of young women and people reluctant to play.The controller of the Wii helped make it easy to use video games. A little more than three years after its launch, the figures speak for themselves: the console, Nintendo has sold nearly 70 million units worldwide, as many as the combined sales of PlayStation 3 added to those of Xbox 360 Microsoft.
For nearly a year, Sony and Microsoft are developing projects to retort to the Wii, the graphics less advanced.
From June 2, 2009, Sony announced its response. "Our power controller is more precise than all other existing systems, which is essential for games in high definition. For the master controller has an accelerometer and a gyroscope. Depth is also determined with precision, with the camera placed above the screen, then told the Figaro, Kaz Hirai, head of the gaming division of Sony.At that time, the firm Nippon would propose his joystick in the spring. It took a little longer, especially to incorporate the side of the camera (which recalls his playing "Eye Toy" for PS2) a sound recording instant payday loans . "Experiments in Augmented Reality" are thus promised to the players for PS3. Thirty-six studios and game publishers, including Activision, Disney, Sega, THQ, Ubisoft and Warner, will offer programs for this controller. The studios Sony, meanwhile, will launch 20 games by 31 March 2011.
The offensive of Sony, with the supplement to "augmented reality", is decisive in the fight which is tied with Microsoft. For the holiday season to season, which begins in November in the U.S., the Xbox 360 is expected to enrich the "project Natal.Microsoft wants to happen and joystick control games and propose a system composed of an infrared camera and a system of speech recognition. "The joystick is you," stated Don Mattrick, head of the gaming division of Microsoft, with last year's project to mark the spirits. In June, in Los Angeles in the next world fair of video games, the software giant must provide details on price, launch date and games for the Natal project.
Revenge of the 3D
However, Sony will release a new card to boost sales of PS3: 3D. Indeed, its console will be enriched in the second half, two programs for relief – which may be retrieved on the Internet for holders of current consoles."Thanks to the reader on Blu-ray built into the PS3, the console will offer games in relief, then a second software enables you to watch movies in 3D," said a spokesman for Sony in France. It is an advantage, including the Xbox 360. Because Microsoft has bet on HD-DVD finally abandoned, for its home console that incorporates a simple DVD player. The PS3 might as well take his revenge and become, according to Strategy Analytics, in the end, the next-generation console's best selling world.