BBC Technology’s Rory Cellan-Jones has said that PlayStation Move is more precise in comparison to Microsoft’s Kinect, which was unveiled last night in Los Angeles.
He does mention, though, that he can “certainly see the attractions of throwing away the control and just flinging yourself at the game,” although he wasn’t convinced.
“I was not quite convinced that Microsoft’s technology would deliver for hard-core gamers,” Cellan-Jones wrote. “It seemed to work well on fun Wii-like games where you didn’t need too much precision – I’m not so sure how whether it would deliver on a first-person shooter.”
“I’ve had a go on Sony’s Move motion control system, which is unveiled on Tuesday. Sony’s solution is much less radical. It has retained the controller, now adorned with glowing spheres which interact with a sensor unit on the television.
“This makes the whole experience less physical than with Kinect, but it also delivers a lot more precision. Sony showed us a table tennis game which seemed to mimic the real thing much more closely than I have seen elsewhere.”
Hopefully both motion controllers will be playable on the show floor come Tuesday so we can find try each controller out for ourselves.
Thanks, BBC Technology.