Say goodbye to the Arc or Gem and hello to the PlayStation Move. Sony has revealed the official name for its motion controller, coming this fall in three forms – alone, with the PlayStation Eye, or bundled with a PS3.
A new trademark from PlayStation 3 maker Sony lends more credibility to the rumour that its forthcoming motion controller – still officially the PlayStation Motion Controller – will be called Arc. Konami’s new Gradius Arc trademark, however, is something else.
Everything changed in 2001, the year Nintendo decided that the future of gaming didn’t lie in faster processors and photorealistic images, but in interaction.
This year’s Game Developers Conference will see the introduction of the PlayStation Motion Controller and our newest peek at the PlayStation 3 peripheral, the subject a newly added session at the annual gathering of developers.
Get used to referring to Sony’s forthcoming motion controller for the PlayStation 3 as Arc. That’s how THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell referred to the still unofficially named, PlayStation Eye-powered controller, previously known as “Gem”, in today’s investor call.