Microsoft is expecting an almost immediate boost for the Xbox 360 from the Kinect motion sensing camera. By contrast for Sony, they’re taking a much more long-tail view for how the Move will affect the PS3.
“Exactly as with EyeToy in the PS2 days, it’s a product that needs to be sampled. You need to get your hands on it. You need to understand it. You need to try it,” says SCE U.K. president Ray Maguire. “Am I expecting a massive day one? Not particularly. We didn’t with EyeToy, either. It went on to be massively successful. As people saw the value when they tried it they told their friends. Their friends bought it. They told their friends. Word of mouth grew the marketplace. That’s what I expect from Move as well.”
“When we see people sampling it the outcome is everyone’s delighted by the experience. That’s the most important thing. The creativity in terms of the games being created for it, already show a marked difference from the genres we had in the EyeToy space, he continued. It’s not only about the keepy-uppy and the wishy-washy. We’re starting to think about Move and how you use that in games like LittleBigPlanet or Killzone, some major games. With that attitude it starts becoming less of a novelty and more of just another way of enjoying the games we all know and love.”
Source: Eurogamer
