Sony Talks 2010: “Project Natal and Wii are going to have trouble”

John Koller, Sony’s head of PlayStation marketing, reveals how the PlayStation Network will expand tremendously in 2010, and why Project Natal and the Wii are going to be in “trouble” when the PS3 launches its own motion sensing technology.

 

Shooters and sports games… they’re areas that quite honestly, I think Project Natal and the Wii are going to have trouble matching, from a differentiation standpoint. We look at motion control as being that much more than what exists on the market. The Holy Grail of gaming is placing you as a consumer into the game physically.

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No need for New xbox ! [project natal]

We all know that the games business goes in cycles and that a new generation of consoles always comes along to replace whatever is popular today. In fact, we should now be talking about the Xbox 720, Sony PlayStation 4 and Wii II, or whatever they might be called, because game developers need a couple of years to create new games to exploit the new hardware capabilities that justify the launch of a new generation. But we aren’t, and Microsoft doesn’t want us to.

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