Sony boss reveals plans for PlayStation - console
(hx) 02:43 AM CEST - Aug,25 2009
- Post a comment / read (1) Sony has revealed its expectations to the release the new PlayStation 3 Motion Control peripheral, which it claims will provide 'true 1:1 tracking' and 'true 3D pointing' when used in conjunction with the PlayStation Eye camera, in the spring of 2010.
And what about the 'magic wand' motion control system you have shown glimpses of here and at E3? When will we see that in stores?
We are slating it for spring of next year. One of the things is that we just don't want to put out the controller. We need a great software that supports the controller at launch. It's something that we've been working on for the longest time.
Finally, the PSP Go is coming in October, and has no drive for UMD disks. Do you think physical media such as DVDs and even Blu-ray have a limited time left?
No. Perhaps we can sit down three years from now and have a beer, or two or ten, while we wait to download 40 gigabytes of data for a full ps3 game. That's still going to take a lot of time. We're in over 100 countries and there are areas where consumers still don't have access to the type of broadband that we have. The death of physical media is a very nice conclusion, that seems to be nice to say, but it’s not something we're going to see soon. We are committed to the PSP 3000 and the UMD business. A lot of people like to speculate that we're getting out of that business, but nothing could be further from the truth. We're not going to deprive consumers in all those other countries.
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