New Sony Website Jabs At Microsoft's Kinect

are they afraid?

how long ago was it that Sony was talking about motion control being useless?

Sony has no rights to say anything, they drug their feet forever releasing the PS3 and they haven't done anything yet to enhance it. So if Microsoft wants to try something new i'm happy for them. I am a PS3 fanboy but i think the Kinect will be a sweet assesory for the crashbox. Go Kinect............

From what I've been hearing from the recent PAX convention...Move was very sluggish, jerk and unintuitive to play testers. Kinect was much more fluid, though it also nearly resulted in a few people getting knocked out. As with any motion sensing console...someone gets knocked in the face.

Eh, the PS3 was fine without this, they took their time releasing the PS3 and it turned out great, leave it alone.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Whilst I have the PS3, I am not going to claim anyone is better until we have tried both of them.

As much as I love my PS3, I hate it when companies outright bash each other. I remember listening to an interview earlier about the Playstation Move where Kevin Butler was criticizing the Wiimote for it's inaccurate motion sensor. How ironic that one would insult someone they were directly copying.

^^Ditto^^ Both posts above me.

All the mudslinging and hype mean nothing until they're both in the hands of the gamers. I for one think that this could be a cool and important step in the evolution of gaming for both Xbox and PS3, but what are the chances either will be perfect the first try? But its a step forward none the least.

Not sure where to take a stance on this, but I'd rather give a technology that requires no controller to be superior though.

Playstation Move = Glowing dildos. end of story

I already have a Wii. Thanks though Sony. At least the Kinect is something new. I'll buy a Kinect for my 360 and if I want to play motion control games I'll do it on my Wii because I'll know the game was actually designed with motion controls in mind.

How will this improve my Blu Ray Player (AKA PS3) =P

They just pissed that the Xbox360 sells more than the PS3 even though the Xbox360 is older.

Also Move is basically a Wii controller. Worse still the Wii Nunchuk has sensor on it so I can use it as a second motion controller, the PlayStation Move navigation controller doesn't. So I need two PlayStation Move motion controllers to play a boxing game for example, four if I want to play against a friend. I also need to buy the Playstation Eye. These reasons makes it more expensive than what Wii is offering, so no thanks.

I like the way that they are completely ignoring the fact that gamers can still use gamepads while being tracked by the kinect cameras, kinect isnt just a new way to interact, it can also be used to enhance gamepad based gameplay.

To be fair... it makes sense... Haven't thought about it previously... but how the hell am I gonna play a game on X360 late at night when I need to be quiet and not to disturb anyone in the house? Voice commands? Fail... whole body movement - fail... bright lightness in order to do that? Fail... I really wanted Kinnect... but now... it sort of makes sense not to...

considering i dont play my games in a cave i think ill get the connect, mainly for the novelty of being able to do voice commands with netflix and my movies. And also, I actually got a chance to test it out at an xbox event out in Santa Monica, and in that demo they had a way to use both kinect and a controller.... i really liked the idea, just seems like they're barely tapping the potential of kinect, where as the wii style motion controller has been tried, and tested and pretty much advanced to its near potential.

for crying out loud, all motion controllers are bad, for me anyway. i like to sit down when i play video game, i dont like to move my hand or body around to play video game. i like my regular controllers just fine, thank you.

Does anyone but me realize you'll still be able to hold a controller when using the kinect? IE: there will be buttons for some games.

What are they? Democrats and Republicans? Geesh!

motion control... pass, what else ya got... and yes i'm the type who got goodat playing guitar hero on a controller just for kicks and giggles

Let us not forget that Sony was hitting out at Nintendo that the Wii remote is gimmick and consumers will not buy it. Now Sony produced the a great system, but no games to back it up. They got jealous of Wii sells, and tried coping them; a little too late. Sony is just jealous of Microsoft. They try and tear down Kinect with their Nintendo rip off Move controller.

Kinect looks pretty stupid and MS has already proven that they are targeting casual and family games with it so no thanks. Move is looking good to me, better than the wii in every way. Can't wait to give it a try. I think a lot of people aren't realizing that the Move is the best of both worlds, it uses the camera so gestures can be used just like kinect, same with voice commands if they want as the camera has a built in mic. It has better motion tracking than the wii and is built on superior hardware. It all comes down to how it is implemented in games and whether it enhances standard gameplay (as they say it will) or is just a cheesey gimick that no one uses.

Kinect is the future. It would be short sighted to think that this is just aimed at gamers. In my opinion gamers are just the testbed. Support for kinect is probably already being integrated into windows 8.

Man... I have to say... I LOVE my Kinect and Move! Jeeze! And the games! Who would have thought that they would have produced so many in such a short amount of time! Workers!!!!

Ok,seriously people, until they actually launch the blasted things, please relax. We have no idea what the actual experience of either is going to be. The only thing I will comment on is this ad. The guy is a marketing loss for Sony. This is the sort of direct competitive intuitive scheming that early universally backfires.

Oh... one wee thing I do need to say about the Box though.

The Kinect sounds a bit too much like the Kin. So... umm... err... yeah. >_

Yeah, because Microsoft could _never_ release a tiny handheld peripheral that allows you to click buttons in conjunction with the Kinect, amirite? How silly. I envision a little cylindrical (or more form fitting) device that fits snugly in your fist with a few easy to use buttons that you can use with the Kinnect when buttons are needed. Crazy idea, huh Sony - I mean MS could never do that, right?

Shenanigans on this: "He eventually explains why voice commands are a bad idea--other players could shout commands that may effect your game simply by passing through"

The kinect uses a directional mic combined with voice (YOUR voice) recognition, combined with it's knowledge of which player is standing where to determine who issues a command. Some guy out of view can issue commands but he can't issue YOUR commands.
Sony is getting desparate because they are selling a magic dildo.