E3 gets movin’

Well, the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is here. The biggest event in gaming all year has had some interesting products to show which I’m going to comment on. First off though, I’d like to bring up the PlayStation Move.

Now the PS3’s tagline is “It only does everything.” This is becoming increasingly true, though I’m still waiting for the add-on that gives you a back massage. However, they felt out-done in the motion sensing department by the Wii, so they went ahead and just made the PS3 a Wii as well. The PlayStation Move is the big news at Sony this year and they’ve put their time and the budget from the naming department into it, and the extra effort really shows. It seems to actually have some pretty awesome motion sensing when used in conjunction with the PlayStation Eye camera attachment. They demoed a few games, including the new Tiger Woods game which looked very impressive with it’s motion sensing. It even measures little things like how you’re angling the club and the way you flick your wrist. It looks like it might actually be able to improve your real-life game. Impressive indeed.

Besides Tiger Woods, there’s a boxing game which looks to actually register how you punch, shooting games that really let you aim, and more sports like baseball or archery. There’s even some fun stuff like a painting thing and EyePet, which allows you to play with this fuzzy monkey thing in your living room without having to clean up the mess after it decides to eat some chocolate you left lying around.

This is the first thing I’ll blog about. I’ll update more on the other consoles and other newsworthy advancements in the coming days. Look forward to it!

Here’s the complete Sony Press Conference:
http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/sony-e3/