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EyeToy - Sony's Next Big Thing?

Posted by simoniker on from the spy-in-the-eye dept.

Thanks to CNN Money for their article tipping Sony's EyeToy USB camera and games as "a sure-fire contender" for this Xmas's must-have holiday toy. It's argued this intriguing motion-capture party game is "...the sort of thing that could get parents (or others who otherwise might not care about video games) off the couch and playing games with their kids", and consumer response looks good in the UK, where it's already racked up 5 weeks atop the charts. It's even audaciously suggested that the game/camera combo, which is due on November 4th for $49, "could take the family audience away from Nintendo."

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  1. From the /. prior article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Worst...Idea...Ever. (Score:2)
    by Alkaiser (114022) on Mon Jul 07, '03 01:02 PM (#6384166)

    Worst Peripheral of E3. #5 one one of the Worst of Show Lists, and #2 on the other. The two guest reviewers rated it as the worst thing there.

  2. I'm not sure by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've seen this kind of game in museums and exhibitions for a long time, they allways sucked.

    Maybe this eyetoy finally has the processing power needed to make it good, maybe they've designed better games than the "proof of concept" ones that existed in the past. But to me it allways felt like the PowerGlove: Good idea on paper, useless piece of junk in real life. Hell, at least the powerglove is a cool toy to play with, this is just a very expensive mirror...

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    1. Re:I'm not sure by grotgrot · · Score: 2

      I own a GameCube. It almost only gets played when I have parties, when doing Monkey Ball is great. (The new Mario Kart looks like a crowd pleaser as well). I also ended up getting a PS2, and the only title I have for it is Dance Dance Revolution. I am going to get the Eye Toy since I think it will be just as much fun for parties.

      Oh, and I am 33 :-)

  3. so what? by nuggetman · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's so revolutionary? I've got games on my Intel PC Pro webcam from 1998 that do the same thing, but more bubbles to pop and less ninjas to kill.

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  4. been done by bigbigbison · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't that new of a technology. I remember a couple of years ago on Techtv they were playing around with one of these for the PC. IT doens't look that different of an implementation. This will be fun for a couple of days,then people will get bored with it. It is super gimmicky. I think it will be about as successfull as those fishing games that look like a fishing rod or the golf games where you have to swing the club. They are fun for a little while, then you get tired of them and they sit and gather dust.

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  5. Been there, done that by MMaestro · · Score: 2, Informative

    The technology is old. Very old. The most fun I had with the technology was watching someone play virtual soccer in a museum and watching him break down in laughter in front of a couple hundred people half way through the game.