About every console generation, Sony manages to muster up a main product worth buying and a peripheral that nobody will buy, somewhere down the line the console’s life.This time around, Sony has chosen to include that peripheral that nobody wants right at the launch of the console. The high-tech PS4 camera, which retails for $59.99, is the next generation of the Playstation Eye. Sony managed to make the camera so appealing in the Playstation 2 days, but today, it looks more like Sony has lost it’s major interest in pushing the camera, and they may be more interested in covering a base that the Xbox One had.
This isn’t to say that the product will be subpar. Sony has announced that the camera can recognize faces and accept voice commands, which is what Kinect does at double the price. Sony always had a way of doing 80-100% (or in the of what the competition does for less or around the same cost, but simply introducing a camera won’t make developers take advantage of it. The PS3’s PS Eye hardware was great — better than the PS2 set — but devs found it hard to implement because there was no way to tell who had one, and if people were interested in playing Playstation games by swinging their arms anymore.
The PS4‘s camera picks up where the PS3 Eye left off. Only time will tell if one of the many hot items being sold on the launch of the PS4 is the camera.
