Xbox 360 motion-sensor reveal rumored for E3

So, Microsoft made an Xbox Eye-Toy? Good job and congratulations to them.

Please Microsoft, do not do stupid things that will make you loose fans. Try something else.

this might be cool, but motion sensors are not a staple part of gaming in my opinion...

this is bogus...wats with all the motion sensing crap?? i wanna be able to sit on my bum with a NORMAL controller and play final fantasy XIII. Given the poor performance of the last remnant on 360 (choppy animations, poor framerate, just plain laggy gameplay) i cant imagine FFXIII even being able to run on 360. I doubt it can handle the awesomeness that is Final Fantasy

BOTH sony and microsoft shud stick to normal controller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!cuz im definetely not gonna buy a motion sensor 4 either and i wud neva by a ps3 or 720 if the hve motion sensor 2 it!!!!!

CWSoccer07 i never said anyone is copying. I was just saying its ironic how people bash sony then when ms is doing the same thing they some how some way find it different. Anyways like i said in the previous sony article. No one is going to let nintendo corner the market. What I think is either sony or ms should come out with a motion sensing cheap system like the wii if they want to get some of that market share. Kinda like sony has a psp and nintendo has a ds. To me these motion sensing systems is a different market. I put it this way consoles, motion sensing, and handhelds

Say what?! First Sony, now Microsoft. If I wanted motion controls I would buy a Wii.

@ ImYour13thStep I totally agree

Microsoft.......Please, please dont do it! This is just straight up wrong!

It was cute when Sony followed Wii now this is just plain wrong.

ImYour13thStep, this is different than PS3 or WII. Yes generally they are the same thing, motion-sensing. Sony is trying to improve the WII functionality using LEDs and a camera to pickup the controllers movement. The MS is trying to only pick up a person's movements, regardless of a controller. Either way, these are only being created by MS and Sony to compete with the niche WII has created for family and party entertainment. Neither is exactly copying from another.

I love all the xbox fans that were posting on the sony motion sensing article saying that ps3 was copying blah blah Sony always copies blah blah. then two days later this article gets posted and you aint sayin nothin!!

JCDenton, I agree with your sentiments. But I'm a software developer myself, and just because something seems unlikely, doesn't mean it can't be coded for. But I agree, it's hard to see how they could make it work without some complicated logic. For most games, you'd have to have something other than just the motion capturing to control certain actions (change weapons, etc). Not to mention how much programming would have to be done by the game developers to recognize certain actions, and interpret those as actions to the game. If you think $60 was too much for Call of Duty, to have that game with motion capturing, it would likely be $100 game. It's a lot of programming. I just don't see this being used in mainstream gaming for the 360. Sure they can create bowling games or 1 player tennis games, much like the WII. But I won't rule this out in the future, because I honestly think controller-less gaming is where games will eventually go. Controllers button layouts only limit the number of actions that can be done, and for complex games (sports games) the actions are complexly laid out with combinations of button presses and joystick use.

Sounds intriguing. Lets see what MS can make of this.

This could definitely have some nice benefits. This may not bode well with all the hardcore gamers out there, but I think this could definitely open up new types of games for the 360 for others out there. I look forward to seeing some different types of interfaces for the 360. It makes the machine that much more versatile.

I'm on the fence with this one. I don't think it will make an impact on anything other than gimmicky games, and never really be used for mainstream gaming on the 360. But I am optimistic in the direction this could take games. There are obvious hindrances that this poses: 1. How do you move in games that require unilateral movement (sports games, sandbox games, FSP and third person shooters)? 2. How do you play couch coop games? 3. Do you really expect people to play in a room that has no movement other than the person playing (ie, dogs in the room, other family members or friends making random movements). If they manage to address those issues (as well as others), the limitations would be based on user creativity and developer coded restrictions (can't climb this item, invisible walls, ceilings, etc). There are a lot of doors this would open, but some or many of them wouldn't be doors you'd want to open.

AngelCage-2: i believe you might be right about the functionality of the camera, i think it scans a image, irregardless of the reality of it, and identify distances on foreground object from that image, then compare it with cached results from the previous frames extrapolating any movement from the difference in the distances. This brought to mind issues with the Achievement infrastructure of the console and File sharing websites like youtube. You could theoretically, hold the camera up to a youtube video of someone playing and have their performance be mostly replicated exactly on your screen. Next generation of Walkthroughs ? Need a hard achievement ? Ill play the game for you. Just hold the camera next to your computer, framing it just so.

big meh. I hope next gen isn't about motion sensing :/ that would be disappointing imo

I'm sorry, but I can't see this being good for core gamers. This has way less functionality than the Wiimote + nunchuk. How would you move, jump, then shoot in an UT or Quake-like game? Can you imagine running in place, jumping, aiming your finger to the side of the screen (to aim ala Metroid 3)? Try aiming properly while jumping...it can't work. I think they can make simpler versions of current games, but I'll be in the store to buy myself a Motion +.

What is wrong with you people? Chill a little and give Microsoft a break. Personally I hate the wii's motion sensing partially because it doesn't work that well for advanced movements and because to many games use it as a gimmick. But if this technology works as hyped, they really could do some very cool things with it. Just wait and see before you bash.

distance to pixel? is that possible with only (flat) image scanning pixel per pixel? (wow, welcome to the lag) To me, to kanow digitally a distance from one point to another you need some kind of infrasound, or another wave to measure distance... scanning a single fram taking from a camera is like scanning a photo... just pixeles... there are any (evident) way to measure any distance. what about if you put a picture of yourself in front of the camera lens? will it be scan it like a plain plane, or will it interpret any relative distance in the photo pixels? cause to me scanning a image taken by the lens is the same thing... thins thing is very interesting. Anyway, after all that babling, i are completly sold with MS and Sony if they deliver some kind of REAL motion sensing control to 360 and ps3. Why not?

this wont work

They already have this camera out there, why doesn't it work on that thing? So now I need to buy this one too. I bought the other camera in the hope these kind of games would be released for use on that camera, but now I have it so I can watch myself play UNO...

As many have stated, gamers who play 360 play because the game play/graphics...this motion sensor feature is for the Wii and I enjoy playing the Wii for that reason...so if Microsoft releases it, I don't care, I won't buy it.

motion sensing is bad, just look at at the wii(bad)

A dead gimmick, been done already and is not going to cut it. Like the others say, aslong as it doesn't effect the real games its fine.

I hate movement controls, just keep using the 360 controller. These things are gimmiky to me, and thats why I hate the wii. I wish the wii had 360/PS3 graphics, and a regular controller. Just imagine Mario or Zelda.

Oh my god! I agree with PIXTRAN, as long as they don't touch our perfect hardcore games with thei ****** ridiculous movements crap, it doesn't bother me much....

Meh. If this is thing real (I doubt it), it will be used on a bunch of stupid casual games and nothing else. You won't be doing Hadoukens and Tatsumaki-Senpukiakus in your room for example. So, who cares, as long as they use this **** only on casual games, and don't force this in normal games.

will xbox 360 shooters use the motion controller for fps/tps?

This is a turn off for me, movement sensing technology puts me off games. The Wii is good for nights in with mates and the 6-axis is gimmicky at best. I like the traditional style of controller where I can lie back on my couch to play games, relax and chill. I don't want to be moving round all over the place. That's why I don't touch the Wii for the most part. Still it's great news for those that wanted somethign like this.

@ lukemularczyk ""btw. the first motion-sensor-like thing was propably sonys eye-toy, so you can actually say that nintendo copied sony ?" more like the origional gcon, so everyone copied namco" NES Power glove chump. shows what you know.

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"btw. the first motion-sensor-like thing was propably sonys eye-toy, so you can actually say that nintendo copied sony ?" more like the origional gcon, so everyone copied namco

This is halarious! I mean really this says PS3 Eye-toy/Wii all the way. M$ give it up, Add ons don't work for the 360!!!! (HD DVD, Wi-Fi attachment, DVD remote etc) Thats all I have to say.

If this comes out, this will most certainly revolutionize gaming technology, like instead pressing B to block in RPG games or attack, just simply do the movements! Or RTS gaming where you have an overview board and just simply tab on the unit to control it! The possibilities are endless!!! :D

Nobody's gonna buy this garbage. Get a Wii if you want to wave your arms around like an idiot. This is just a prime example of large corporations throwing their money around with little care as to what it goes towards. Why waste time making good games when they can make some gimmicky peripheral that will be used for a couple dozen shovelware sports titles for little girls and will then die out within six months? The Wii has nothing to worry about. Hardcore gamers will not even touch this thing.

First it was a wiimote clone called the newton, then some lightsabre stick lookalike came along called the darwin and now this.... what it is going to be called? The Vinci?

If they can take this and make ultra-violent games with them, I'm in.

Wait, so Sony and Microsoft are both revealing it at the same time? Ffffu--

If you dont like it - dont buy it. Please stop all those comments about you being unsatisfied that they want to make something new. and btw. the first motion-sensor-like thing was propably sonys eye-toy, so you can actually say that nintendo copied sony ?

"The Wii just got a new freind" That is in fact the excact opposite to be certain. The Wii just got a new foe!

what is more to the WII?, the only thing that WII has is the montion sensor, it only has like 5 to 8 games worth playing, imaging a wii60 how it will be, with the 360 graphs and nintendos controllers, a total blast. And true the PS3 montion sensor Sucks, but he WII controllers is really, really fun, and if the manage to do something like it, again bring it on, still, this montion sensor feature is an option, so is up to you to use or not, is not going to damage your 360 regular playabilitiy

I'd think Sony and Microsoft would be smart enough to see that there's a lot more to the Wii's monumental sales than motion sensors. face-palm/disappointment

i agree with king bobo a simple upgraded itoy hated those things lol

Motion sensing is a waste of time, on the PS3, i hate it. On the Wii, I see it as a gimmick. Don't stick it on the Xbox, I like my Xbox. The only game to do it well was Medal of Honor Airborne. Otherwise, get out of it!

The Wii just got a new freind :D

LOL - so basically an upgrade of the Eyetoy? It doesn't sound like the kind of technology to get excited about, but I may be wrong. In terms of whose technology will be the best (out of the two rumoured) it sounds like Sony's will be a little more revolutionary, although clearly, this is only my opinion...

Motion sensing is a novelty. It shouldn't be invested in unless it gives you true 3d graphics.

(kbaily) wii coipied marketplace, online gaming, voice chat so where the wii shooter involing a green suit???