Are YOU ready to Move?

For a long time video game consoles have been a important form of entertainment. The first home video game console was released as early as 1972 named Magnavox . From 1972 till date there has been constant improvement in this field pushing the recently released consoles to the Seventh Generation!!. The first of these consoles was XBOX 360 ,released in 2005. A year later Sony rivaled the XBox 360 with their Playstation 3. These two consoles actually was direct challenge to the game developers to publish games with better graphics, game-play and games with longer game time.

Amidst the release of these two HD-consoles there was the release of a console whose approach to games was very different. Nintendo entered back into the video game console market with the introduction of WII .Wii was very different from PS3 and XBox360. Wii uses a controller which looks like TV remote and the gamer uses the remote, to control the character, which is sensed using IR sensing Sensor Bar. This changed the thought of "how to game'' and simultaneosy brought in a lot of new customers into the gaming. Now gaming was no more just-for-recreation. It became way of exercising, doing your daily Yoga and many more. You didnt need a ThreadMill to show you how many calories you lost. All you wanted a Wii.

At first Sony and Microsoft snubbed aside Wii since Wii didn't play games as-they-knew-it. But sales of Wii surprised everyone. And Wii currently holds the record for the Most Consoles sold in a single month in the US.

Motion sensing gaming has picked up so much frenzy that both Microsoft and Sony have released their own alternatives to Wii -XBox Kinect and Playstation Move. The PS Move is just like a Wiimote, comes as a addon to the existing PS3 console. Move has a glowing Orb which is sensed by the PS Eye camera .Sony already has a long list of HD games supporting this new addon. This is real direct competition for the Wii , actually the Wii is on the back foot now. Bad online experience and not so many 'games' on the Wii have given a little edge to Playstation Move which already has a well established PS Network and a long list of HD games to be 'Moved'

On the other hand Microsoft have gone a step ahead. They have removed the Controller itself :) .Your "Body" is the new controller. There is a console , a Display (HD is good :) ) and there is you!!. How do they do this? They use a sensing device similar to the Sensing Bar of Wii. The sensing device basically maps different but many body-points to recreate the 3D image of the gamer to pinpoint the exact position of the player. So as you move body the character on the screen moves. Sounds fascinating doesn't it ? With the popular XBox Live ,Kinect also has social advantages. You can video chat with another Xbox Live subscriber or your friends using MSN video chat. The camera on sensing device is pretty cool as it changes its position(to a limit) as the user moves in front of it. Kinect too has a 19 games already compatible with it.

Now, we have 3 consoles fighting for supremacy. Nintendo already know the motion sensing gaming well while Sony and Microsoft are yet to completely dive into moption gaming. But everyone agrees that Motion is going to be the battle field for the next year or so.

So Are you ready to Move ?