The PlayStation Eye—the all seeing eye, it is a bit different. It is attached to the end of the new controller for the soon to be released, “PlayStation Move,” which competes with the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox Kinect. People love to move and it is the new wave of electronic gaming to be able to control an avatar as if you are in the action yourself. While the PlayStation has added a number of personalized features that separate it from the competition and make it a unique competitor in the chuck-sensor market, it will be the games that will make this system or make it be forgotten.
Games for the PlayStation move include: EyePet, Beat Sketcher, SOCOM 4, Sports Champion, Little League Planet 2, Sorcery (hailed the best title for the new Move) and more. The Move Games list has been crafted to appeal to existing PlayStation gamers as well as bringing new gamers in. Where Nintendo and other game systems released separate systems to play the motion sensor games, PlayStation has taken the objective of keeping the same console and plugging in hardware to add to its game play.
They have made games for every age range. EyePet will appeal to young children while teaching eye hand coordination. Other games such as the newest edition of SOCOM will take on the first person point of view to allow gamers to lurk around cities of destruction and jungles on missions to save, protect and defend. Such games are for mature audiences and zone in on the PlayStation eye to enable the player to aim and shoot with his or her own hand as opposed to a scrolling joystick. Most of the techniques are not new, but the game list is and this is PlayStations take on the increasingly popular hands on gaming style.
Right now, it’s still possible to find a cheap PS3. That’s not going to be the case once holiday season is in full swing. PS Move is going to make the console very hard to find. I strongly recommend that you make a move (pun intended) right now and get the console if you don’t already have one!
