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PlayStation Move Officially Better Than Xbox Kinect

by Jay Garrett on August 22, 2010

Where once only the Wii roamed the motion gaming arena the two new pretenders are battling for the top spot.

According to a panel of German gaming industry experts the winner of this round is Sony with PlayStation Move beating Microsoft Xbox Kinect to the best hardware accessory prize at the Gamescom 2010 expo.

Is this how it’s going to be on the Christmas best-sellers lists?

How about a run down of all the Gamescon winners?

Well, have a look at this triumphant lot :)

Best of Gamescom: Gran Turismo 5

Best hardware accessory: PlayStation Move

Best console game: Gran Turismo 5

Best mobile/handheld game: Super Scribblenauts

Best online game: Guild Wars 2

Best PC game: Crysis 2

Best Family Entertainment: Kirby’s Epic Yarn

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Well, it has been a year since the last time I wrote about the Nintendo Wii 2 (or WiiII) .

Since Nintendo has just published a press release confirming that they’ve now have sold 30 million Wii’s in the states alone, which makes it the fastest console to reach that milestone in the history of gaming, it’s time to breathe some new life into the Wii2 chat.

The original Wii was launched waaaaaaay back in 2006 and has beaten the next best selling console to the 30 million mark by a full 15 months.

Now, although Nintendo keeps denying that a Wii2 is on its way – that’s what I’d expect them to say ;)

There’s rumblings on the interweblogosphere that a Wii2 could pop-up next year.

Thing is that there’s a couple of things that Ninte will have to do as standard.

HD is a must as the HD gaming scene is bouncing along with 3D taking some tentative steps.

Blu-ray would also make sense but that would bump the price up a tad and would Blu-ray be totally necessary? Would discs for that matter?

Let’s face it downloads are the way forward – for publishers at least. I remember going to the market to score some used-games on the cheap but since downloads it’s too easy to hook-up to Valve, Xbox Live and the Playstation Network and the likes to get your game on.

What would you expect to see from a Wii2?

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Microsoft Kinect for Xbox Gets UK Price

July 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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Microsoft has now gone official with the UK price of their body-sensing motion-controlled gaming doopher. The Xbox add-on that the big M is hoping will kick the Wii and Move into the curb will cost the people of Blighty £130 for a Kinect Sensor to plug into your current Xbox 360, and one game – [...]

Tron Legacy Controllers for Xbox, Wii and PS3

June 21, 2010 Click to read more →
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Tron Legacy is definitely shaping up to become a hit and on the back of that will come the Tron video game tie-in which should also be out later this year. What better way to guide your lightcycle or discs than these blue highlighted controllers? Yup – these Tron branded Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and [...]

You Rock Guitar Gets $1.25 Million Boost

June 8, 2010 Click to read more →
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Remember the You Rock Guitar? An actual stringed instrument that plays nice with all your favourite gig games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, gaming rigs like the Wii and PS3 as well as your computer, iPhone or even your real guitar amp? Well, Inspired Instruments have managed to get $1.25 million from a number [...]

Full Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailer and Details!

May 19, 2010 Click to read more →
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Here it is folks! The official trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Get ready to be dropped into real world conflicts at some point between World War II and now featuring various periods of the Cold War leading you through war torn Cuba, the Arctic and Vietnam. Along with the new video more details [...]

Nintendo Losing Ground – Profits Drop

May 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ouch! For the first time in 6 years Nintendo have reported a drop in profits – compared with last year’s 279 billion Yen the drop takes them down to 228 billion this year. The people in the know are pointing the finger at the lack of recent outstanding titles (The Wii isn’t getting CoD: Black [...]

Black Day for Wii as Call of Duty: Black Ops Stealthily Avoids Nintendo

May 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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Nintendo Wii users will not be feeling the love as they watched the pre-order listings appearing for all but them. The Modern Warfare 2 follow-up, Call of Duty: Black Ops, will be hitting the other consoles built by Microsoft and Sony as well as on PC but, as with last year’s title, Wii owners will [...]

Power Pyramid Brings Good Looks into Charging Stations

April 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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There’s a number of ways of charging your console controllers but none look like this! The Konnet Power Pyramid Supreme is THE best looking (unless you know differently) way to charge up to two PS3 and two Xbox 360 controllers at once. It even has an LED status indicator that tells you when the charging [...]

UK Shoppers Gadgety Change in Taste

March 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Office for National Statistics has refreshed its hypothetical shopping basket again. Alongside the addition of liquid soap, cereal bars and garlic bread (it’s the future!) comes the arrival of the more gadgety Blu-ray player! If you’re not sure what all this is about the ONS updates this rather huge ‘basket’ to reflect the average [...]

Sony PS3 Move not Arc – Motion Controlling Wand gets Named and Shown off

March 11, 2010 Click to read more →
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Sony has been showing off its Nintendo Wii baiting motion controller. They’ve also officially named it: PlayStation Move. Sony created a bit of a stir at the PlayStation presentation held at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco. The naming of the Move may have lost a number of people money if they’d been betting [...]

Nintendo Zii Trademarked – New Console, Handheld or What?

December 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo has just trademarked the title “Zii” in Japan which is to be used for computer games and electronic devices, according to the paperwork released today. The company actually filed for the trademark on October 30, but this was only just released on the trademark database. This means that Nintendo has protected the word “Zii” [...]

Get Money Off Your Gifts – Have a VERY Merry Christmas!

December 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’ve just been pointed in the direction of Very.co.uk. ‘Very’ is a new online department store from Shop Direct and it’s offering Gadgety News readers a great discount of £10 off your first order of £40 or more when you open a credit account. All you have to do to claim your discount is simply [...]

Microsoft Xbox 360 Natal Coming in 12 Months With Cheap Games

November 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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Don’t you just love leaked info? Well, thanks to MCV the above news was gathered via a tricky tipster who said that the information was apparently the result of behind-closed-door meetings right here in the UK between Microsoft and third party developers. Microsoft will be manufacturing 5 million Natals for a worldwide launch in November [...]

NHS to Give Wii Fit Plus Stamp of Approval

October 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Since Wii Fit arrived there has been the question: “Does it really work?” There has been plenty of opinions but now the NHS has stepped in. The National Health Service is quite happy to give Nintendo Wii Fit Plus its official backing. The NHS say that there’s plenty many benefits to be gained from the [...]

Nintendo Wii 2 – HD, More Online-ness, Cheaper and Smaller than First Wii

October 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Shigeru Miyamoto, the dude responsible for game greats Mario and Donkey Kong says that the Nintendo Wii 2 will be smaller and cheaper – who am I to argue with that? He also says that the console will move into “other aspects of daily life” – so do we take it that Nintendo will be [...]

Nintendo Wii Gets Price Cut Ahead of New Version – Wiiii?

September 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Whilst the news of a Wii price cut was still warm in our ears it seems that Nintendo has something else up their collective sleeve. According to Yoichi Wada, head honcho over at Square Enix, Nintendo will be rolling out the successor to the Wii by the year 2011. And what sort of features will [...]

Asus Bring Dual-Screened EeeBook EeeReader in Time to Un-Kindle Christmas

September 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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You peoples that catch-up with GadgetyNews right here will remember that dual panel laptop by Asus that was rumoured to become their EeeReader. In June Asus vice chairman, Jonathan Tsang did say that the company had an Asus eBook device, as well as a games machine “better than the Wii” all ready to go – [...]

Nintendo Bringing Hollywood to Wii Worldwide

July 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo is about to bring you another reason to buy their family friendly Wii. The Nintendo Wii movie store is heading worldwide by the sounds of things and that will bring you the Hollywood greats right to your Wiimote! Japan has the Wii movie service in place and the PS3 (via PlayStation Store) is already [...]

Project Natal Coming to Your TV and PC Soon!

July 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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It sounds like Microsoft isn’t settling for just bringing its gesture recognition Natal stuff to the Xbox – the Big M has its beadey little eyes on Windows, according to a very good source: That source happens to be a certain Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates. Gates spoke to CNET News and talked about a world [...]