Reports are emerging today of how the PlayStation 3 may well feature EyeToy technology, perhaps ranking amongst the most obvious assertions made regarding future home hardware.
Anyone with any reasonable connection to the games industry, and specifically Sony Computer Entertainment, will happily explain exactly what EyeToy represents…
In terms of Trojan technology, EyeToy is as pleasantly sinister as it is brilliant. In the present phase of EyeToy, the device functions as a gaming peripheral, nothing more. However, as PlayStation 2 engenders increased online support around the world, its blatant nature of communication tool becomes apparent.
EyeToy is getting users used to larking around in front of their television sets and home consoles, in preparation for a full scale communication hub roll-out.
EyeToy is a webcam, and a webcam forms part of what Microsoft has dubbed as the 'digital Entertainment lifestyle', a lifestyle which both Sony and the Xbox creator have firmly set their sights on delivering and ruling.
As PlayStation 3 emerges in the coming years, its online content delivery, online gaming, online communications, online movies and music on demand nature will become apparent.
Of course EyeToy, or future incarnations of it, are integral to that.
PlayStation 3 to incorporate EyeToy technology? It’s as obvious as foretelling it will use controllers and feature videogame software.
A more balanced approach to everything next-gen, right here, as it breaks.