Initially unveiled back in September of last year, the “Gametrak Freedom” motion controller for Xbox 360 and the PS3 returns after a makeover. It’s currently on display at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
It should be available this fall for the Xbox 360, the PS3 version will likely follow next year. The Freedom obviously closely resembles the Nintendo Wii remote. In fact, it just looks like a bad knockoff. It will ship with a USB-port base station connected to two wands that sit on either side of your TV. Unlike the Wii remote, the Freedom won’t require line-of-sight. Instead it will use “ultrasonic 3D positioning” to relay the remote’s position via pulses.
Xbox owners will soon be able to join the ranks of others who have thrown Wiimotes into their TV.
[Crunchgear]
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motion, PS3, remote, Wiimote, xbox 360
thsi is really stupid. why would they copy Nintendo
I don’t think it is a brilliant idea either, but perhaps it will do better than I think. Oh and by the by, it does look like a bad knock off, but agian who knows?
It shows that Microshaft is DESPERATE! Those ungrateful F**KS!!!!
To Nick:
Everybody copies Nintendo, the SNES pad is present as a standard layout in all of the conventional controllers
Who cares - PS3 is superior to all and if you don’t agree, your just plain old cheap
No no no no no, keep it away. We’ve already got a Wii in the house. I don’t need my PS3 turning into a party machine, it’s mine, for me, for shooting things, & for games to look pretty, it’s also for sitting down in front of, not waving my arms around in front of the telly. Leave all that for the little white box.
Sorry, got scared then. I’ll come out from behind the sofa when they stop saying nasty evil things.
Microsoft has already stolen windows from apple, xbox stole 3rd party from playstation, now they are stealing wii!! I really love companies who become thieves this really says a lot about morals. And being an american this really speaks poorly of our nation. Damn when is ps3 gonna drop in price and own the competition??
Justin
This controller isnt even being released by microsoft
The controller is being released by the third party company ” Gametrak ”
Third party companies can release whatever the hell they want the only thing microsoft stole was the avatar idea this is just a bonus for microsoft that this is being released with the intent for playing FPS
I dont know if you have played Metroid for the wii but it worked really good for fps having this to kick ass in Call of duty would be sweet - Great graphics and great controll
Since everyone here seems to think ps3’s sh*t don’t stink… I must say xbox360 dominates ps3 ALL DAY LONG BABY. Better price, better games, oh and did i mention xbox live?? ps3 multiplayer = garbage compared, i’ll take better games over slightly better graphics and poo-ray any day. Who likes paying jacked up prices for poo-ray movies anyway?
It was all nice & pleasant until “Anonymous / 25.03.09 / 8:42pm” & Lee came along with their “special” ways spouting their special fanboy comments. Gotta love the fanboys & the source of mindless amusement they provide. It wouldn’t be same without them. It’s the blind passion & complete lack of actual facts that gets me everytime.
Uh, Nick, what do you mean why would they copy Nintendo?? Because the wiimote blows every other gaming controller away. There is no contest. have you ever played an FPS on the Wii? I assume not, or you would know why both Microsoft and Sony ultimately have no choice but to follow suit. If this thing actually works like a wiimote I will be an xbox 360 owner very soon.
this is so stupid! I hate when others are stealing ideas! Wii is for entertaining, ps3 and xbox360 are for games fith good graphics etc. so leave Wii alone!
Lets recap, the game controllers, the D Pad, NES, left and right bumper buttons, SNES, the trigger button, N64, the analog stick, N64. Everybody has always based there design on Nintendo controllers. Microsoft and Sony has no imagination in there designs.