This past week Sony has announced their motion control peripheral will be releasing this Fall on the Playstation 3. This release will coincide with the Natal release for the Xbox 360. Analysts are saying Sony put it up for release that season so they would have better competition against the peripheral-less motion controlled Natal. The Sony Wand was revealed at E3 of 2009 and it surprised the general audience. (generally it wasn’t so surprising for most analysts) Most predicted the furthest Sony would go with motion control was just Sixaxis but it seems since the announcement of Natal they’ve been hard at work with this new motion controller rumored to be named “The Arc”. Both the Natal and Sony Wand were created to attract the audience Wii has generated with motion controlled video games; from older people to younger girls and everything in between. Some predict Natal will be releasing with a demo CD full of Wii Sports-esque games to play to start attracting this audience. Many are still unsure with how Sony and third party developers plan to implement the motion control to their games.
