Sony Corporation announced Wednesday it decided to delay until the fourth quarter of this year the launch of its new motion-sensing control for the PlayStation 3.
The device will launch in North America, Europe, Japan and other Asian countries. Sony did not say how much it will cost.
The driver was planned for the second quarter, when Sony announced the first details in September. In the end, the company decided to wait several months until new games that accompany the launch, said spokeswoman Makiko Noda, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in Tokyo.
"We continue to have a comprehensive range of attractive and innovative games for the move handle," he said in a statement from Sony Computer Entertainment president Kazuo Hirai. Both the company and independent developers are creating games, he added.
Sony said it will introduce software offering date to be determined.
In conjunction with the PlayStation Eye camera, the controller can detect the voices, faces and body movements of players. It also has a light area that the camera can recognize.
The announcement comes as Sony and Microsoft, which makes the Xbox 360, Nintendo looking to dethrone his chair dominant in the field of gaming.
Since Nintendo's successful Wii console launched in 2006, has managed to outperform their rivals in sales consistently. The company was the first to introduce drivers to detect the movements, which allows users to physically interact with games.
Microsoft also developed its own control, under the so-called Natal Project, "which includes a camera, depth detector, a microphone and a processor, which eliminates the need to push buttons.
Expected to be released for the sales season for next Christmas, but there is still no fixed date.
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