Sony: "Project Natal Is No Match For Sony's Motion Control"

Despite the bragging up we reported earlier of Microsoft’s Project Natal, Sony have made the self-aggrandizing statement that both the Nintendo and Microsoft’s motion control efforts will struggle to compete with Sony’s.

Head of PlayStation Marketing, John Koller has said that its forte will be in family sports and shooting games and central to the success of its motion project:

"In terms of the best types of games, I'd say that right now we're looking at a real wide variety of genres that can utilise the technology."

"I think the areas that are going to be really critical to our success will be family games, as well as shooter and sports games. Those are going to be the areas that will really define success because they're areas that, quite honestly, I think Project Natal and the Wii are going to have trouble matching from a differentiation standpoint."

And yet these are the areas Microsoft have been boasting about developing… Koller added:

"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. When we provide further details, people will see exactly where we're going."

He stated that Sony’s main focus for the coming year will be on motion control gaming, the PlayStation Network and 3D gamings. Also that Sony are going to continue to innovate through existing firmware rather than add to the existing hardware for the foreseeable future.

"There's a lot of features and functions we have planned there. I think that 2010 will be a big year for that. I also think that it'll be a big year on the software side, whether it'll be 3D gaming or any of the other really big franchise titles that are coming to the PlayStation 3."

What is the poor Wii going to do about all this promising technology? Try its hand at hardcore gaming? A ball park price figure for this new technology has yet to be revealed so maybe the Wii will still have a pricing edge for a while.

Source: GamePro