Live from the Sony press event of the Game Developer Conference 2010 comes the name confirmation for the Sony motion controller, Playstation Move to come to living rooms all over the country this fall.
Sony announced the name and also several variations of the new hardware which will come as a stand alone add on or a bundle at or under 100 Dollars. The bundle will get consumers a Playstation Move controller, an Eye Toy and a game collection. No pricing available for software or single pieces of hardware at this point. There will also be a Move supporting controller available used to play first or third person shooters including an analog stick. SOCOM 4 was shown off using the tech and will be playable in its entirety with the Playstation Motion controller.
Several additional mini games were shown off on stage including a street fighting game, several family mini games as well as sword fighting along with table tennis. Those are all first party games which will be available at launch while ‘virtually every third party’ is working on PS Motion games right now.
Sony’s previously announced but not named, motion controller looked very precise in its ‘one to one’ movements in all of the demos which included a ‘hair cutting mini game’. Stay tuned for more info to pour out over the coming months including existing software support for games such as Little Big Planet which was demoed as well.
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