Sony Ericsson works on motion sensor gaming?
By Dusan Belic on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 3:30 AM PST In Gaming, Sony Ericsson, Technologies
Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) phones may already be known as one of the top choices among mobile gamers, but that’s obviously not enough for both Swedish and Japanese shareholders, especially in a time when they’re facing the competition from Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s NGage platform.
The handset maker has reportedly signed a deal with California-based GestureTek, which we already covered in the past and which uses the handset’s camera to sense movement. The idea is to bring the Wii-like gaming experience to camera-equipped Sony Ericsson phones, which don’t have an accelerometer built inside (like the K850i and W910i models, for instance); and to ultimately establish Sony Ericsson as a mobile gaming brand.
We’ll watch this closely, have no doubt. In the meantime, if you need a reason to rejoice, you should know that among the first titles that will use the faux-accelerometer are Crash Banicoot and Super Monkey Ball.
[Via: Pocket Lint]
Thats pretty sweet! I play both those games so I would be happy with the launch. Thanx for covering these sort of things. As a gamer, I am very interested in these sort of posts. Another thing you guys should look into would be MMORPG platforms for mobile, u know? Like WoW, or something of that nature. I play an online MMO called Flyff and I would kill to have the ability to play that on my phone. U thik u guys can do some research into that? It would be greatly appreciated!