Sony: Move Can Be Upgraded, But It's Good Enough Already

Sony's PlayStation Move hasn't been on sale for very long, but should the time come when the peripheral needs to be more accurate, you won't need to buy a whole new device. SCEA's software engineer Anton Mikhailov has revealed that its performance can be improved via PlayStation 3 firmware updates.

In a recent interview, Mikhailov revealed the peripheral's capability for accuracy upgrades, but wondered whether Sony will even need to bother. "The hardware specs we ended up with are good enough that we can get some more improvements out of them. The camera is still a good camera. I don't know how many more software improvements we can make. The real question is, do we want to?

"So far we haven't had any real requests from studios to improve the accuracy. There are a couple of issues here and there we can fix, but the majority the games are not even taxing it to its full accuracy." He added that in games like Sports Champions and The Shoot, issues of apparent latency are more likely to be the fault of gamers who aren't skilled enough to play through the harder difficulties.

"People tend to have trouble doing the actions precisely enough rather than the Move being precise enough to pick them up. For Sports Champions, table tennis is quite a hard game on the expert difficulty. At that point you're thinking, well, how much more precise does it need to be? We need to decide. There's room for some more precision. It's going to be up to us."

Mikhailov also spoke of dual-wielding Move controllers and how the Xbox 360's Kinect device seems "very un-Microsoft." Curious. Read the whole interview here.