It looks like it could have some cool uses but... we'll see since it kind of depends on whether or not developers see anything in it.

It may not be as fancy as Natal, but it seems 1000% more practical for gaming purposes. The hardware doesn't seem like it would be that expensive to build either. If they can pull off the type of games they showed off in that tech demo, I'll be clearing off a shelf for a brand new PS3.

Project Natal does this a little better, even though I agree that this bit in the conference was pretty cool.

I like how all the companies are now moving towards 1:1 motion sensing since I think that's the way the Wii should have been done from day one.

Seems pretty much all of them will be similarly feature-laden so, once again, it'll come down to who has the best games.

Wonder who's going to win the battle of

"Write on a Touch Screen with a Stylus : 2010 "

Microsoft where you can write on the touch screen but you don't need a Pen?
Sony with their DualShockSixaxisiimotestylus?
or Wii with their DSi.

@Qraze: You say that like you have never heard of or seen the Wii motion controls before. It will be just as fun as the Wii is to someone, but I don't see it being any more fun.

It's not good that you would need two devices to make it work..

I prefer the Natal more. No controller whatsoever is better than holding a controller like the Wiimote.

This would be awesome, if they hadn't announced it before NATAL. Natal pretty much tore this crap apart. And who really wants another wii motion plus?

I'm skeptical of project natal to be honest. Seeing these live tech demos makes me more optimistc for this tech. Natal could be cool, but this looked so versitile.

Im not really a fan of motion control but I think this is better than the pie-in-the-sky promises of Project Natal. Microsoft is big with promises yet they don't fulfill all of them, anybody remember "Surfer Girl"?

Waggle wars

I am more curious as to what Nintendo will have to come up with to respond to that. They can't do anything for now, given that the WiiMotion Plus isn't even available yet. Nintendo R&D must be running all over the place to find some way to top those announcements. I was just expecting some "meh" motion sensing peripherals from the other 2 and a Wii 2 with only improved graphics somewhere down the line, but seeing where things are going, a Wii 2 with REALLY deeper gameplay possibilities and actually powerful graphical capabilities may be closer than I used to think. Maybe they could implement that Vitality Sensor in the controller from the get-go, associated with 1:1 motion-sensing controllers and body-reading cameras.
That would be swell. And it's not like they need to have much scruples when copying anybody at this point, anyway.

All I want to know is:

What's wrong with traditional controllers? it's not about the hardware it's about the games so I'll wait until I see some games to make my veredict.

Wait, Surfer Girl? Please elaborate on this, as I can't find much info about it.

This one looks like the most technically sound and precise. It also appears to be the most expensive since you have to get both a controller, camera, and game. But many people already have PS3 cameras, so good for them.

Natal was impressive, that is for sure. I still want to hold something though, I imagine the stupid camera picking up on someone getting up to the bathroom, or the voice software to work when you dont want it to all the time. Milo demo was NOT AI so people need to shut up about how cool that was, it was a very staged scripted event, even though its cool how you can interact with it by movement and facial stuff, very neat, but not as neat as some are thinking.

Natal seems like a interesting step, but moving your avatar around isnt anything impressive, i want to see this applied to real games, instead of party games.

It seems that Sony's motion sick will be a step in the direction Wii tried to make but fell on its face. This will do what even the motion plus can't do. The ability to have 1:1 movement was very impressive in the sword / arrow game demo, i thought that is what zelda was going to be like, and was so sad when all i was doing was shaking the controller. This should be interesting to watch, along with natal.

its not the controller its the game? look at the games nowadays, theyre all repetitive, re-hashed concepts. the interactive aspect needs innovations for gaming to grow, and it starts with the controller, it has since day one.

owned.

I want to play a rail shooter while dodging bullets by moving my body, is it so hard to create a game like that? I hope the Natal or Sony's new motion gadget thing does that.

Well, this thing seems to do stuff that is impossible with the Natal. I doubt you could play a first/third person shooter without a physical controller with a sensor in your hand.

Both Microsoft and Sony has presented different kinds of motion controls to us.

I think it was more interesting than Natal, with Natal they showed me a trailer with a chick choosing clothes... I mean, ok, I get it, Natal is cool in concept but it doesnt seem to be so great and i would look pretty stupid playing it. Sony gave me a tech demo and I was rather impress with it.

Not that Natal is not impressive, only that they gave me an ad video and I felt like they were not showing me the real stuff.

@Chronic Logic: Surfer Girl was a rumor mill back in the day.

And I thought this looked really kickass... of course, I haven't gotten to watch the Microsoft version yet, but the fact that it tracked proximity and the velocity of the controller was pretty awesome. I especially liked the archery portion, though I felt the "RTS" applications were a little, well... sketchy.