Hmmm... and we were talking about what is next in the video game console...

Yu-Gi-Oh! · 10-01-2003,04:50 AM

At the Tokyo Game Show, Sony gave a cool demo of a video game using iToy technology that can be played without the usual (no) controllers, but your hands.

Anyone with more information about this, it will be appreciated!

**pico996969** · 10-01-2003,04:52 AM

i want one....what is it

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prisoner1138 · 10-01-2003,05:00 AM

if thats what i think it was(saw a little video clip on tv earlier), its nothing more than the intel play camera thing that was sold a while back and flopped. basically its just a webcam that captures your movement(like your head and hands waving around) and does stuff like let you bounce balls around the screen.

not a really new(or great) concept

Yu-Gi-Oh! · 10-01-2003,05:23 AM

This technology is not new at all, but the game for the console integrating this technology. And yes sort of a camera that respond according to our movements. Also if I am not mistaking Sony showed the Itoy it self in E3 2003.

prisoner1138 · 10-01-2003,05:32 AM

yea, i've even seen the camera in sale ads already.

and actually, even consoles integrating this sort of technology isnt new either because as i recall the console port of Police 911 supported a webcam and let you duck around like in the arcade game. which is in effect the same technology at work, its just not showing you yourself on screen.

and even just controlling games with hands isnt a new concept either. the power glove on the nes was a flop(still have mine, only decent game was glove ball), the activator(i think thats what it was called) for the sega genesis flopped. it was supposed to be somedumb way of playing fighting games by actually punching and kicking.

and more recently there was one other peripheral for some console(dont remembe which one) that you put on the floor and raised the 4 poles at the corners and punched at the air to play fighting games(might have been the ps2). but once again, after seeing a quick blurb of it, nothing more was seen.

the key reason being, that aside from peopel that play ddr type games(god i hate ddr....) most gamers, which doesnt include you guys reading this, rather the same millions of people that buy shit like the sims on the pc keeping it a number 1 seller for a year, wont want to stand in their living room hopping around in front of the tv to play a game.

it'll end up being nothing more than novelty like every other attempt.

**alanisfan** · 10-01-2003,06:18 AM

That's doing unbeliebably well in Britain actually, but that could have something to do with the rock-bottom price at which they launched it (it costs less than most regular games).

It does look like a piece of shit though, I have no doubt that it will be one of the biggest selling toys over this coming Jolly Ho Ho Ho Festive Season, and then you'll see more of them on Ebay, than ads offering information on how to enlarge your penis.

Yu-Gi-Oh! · 10-01-2003,07:13 AM

Cool then, let my cats enjoy that technology!

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Until then they are some inputs of what we want to see and "what is the next big thing to come along and move videogame technology forward?
" thread:

http://www.ps2newz.net/forums/showth...threadid=14364

**Sephiroth** · 10-03-2003,08:09 AM

Originally posted by prisoner1138
it'll end up being nothing more than novelty like every other attempt.

Not really as you can use the camera for other games too e.g. Police 911 ;-)

prisoner1138 · 10-03-2003,06:58 PM

i already mentioned police 911, and it's still a novelty. police 911 is the same thing, except you just dont see yourself on the screen.

**Sephiroth** · 10-04-2003,11:17 PM

Have you tried playing Police 911 without the camera? I have to say it sucks with a controller. Also with PS2 being able to store and view photos on the HDD I think this is one they will push and will be successful.

Also the items you talk about which are novelties, to you maybe but there is a huge market in Japan for these types of things, all the Bemani games, Martial Beat, etc. It's just the western countries have different expectations and are used to different games.

The fighting controller you are talking about also was third party, not responsive enough and really sucked. That's why it did'nt work, not the concept.

btw, the Eyetoy is already past being a novelty. It's gone platinum already ;-)

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