Tuesday 26 April 2011

Hardware review: EyeToy (Playstation 2)

OK sorry again I'll have everything back on track by tomorrow I promise.

Ah Kinect, Microsoft's newest monstrosity in order to sell more Xbox 360 units and games(along with the ugly as fuck slim console, the word slim being used extremely loosely seeing as it has had less than 1/5 cut off) but it is a stolen concept really, a mod of an existing motion sensing camera so lets disregard Kinect for now (or for good) and look at Sony's EyeToy.

I don't really have much on this so bear with me.
EyeToy was released by Logitech and Namtai in 2003 for Sony's second console, the Playstation 2 in order to increase sales and such I had one it was great etc etc etc.

Anyway the EyeToy was supported for about 5 years and pulled in about 10.5M sales which is only about 500K more than the Kinect has sold but the EyeToy was never hyped and stuff. Another interesting thing about the EyeToy is that there were fewer problems, the only major one it had was the whole lighting thing that was even worse on the Kinect.

In conclusion the EyeToy was great but alas it was a cheap control gimmick (like 3D effects, take note people)

Anyway I will be starting That's Interesting after I reboot and such.
Until then.
TheWardy signing off.

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