The PS3's ability to track the position of an object in 3D space using the new Eye Toy offers up more potential for motion-sensing gaming than the
Wii Remote, Sony told CVG yesterday.
Eye Toy card battle game, Eye of Judgement, boasts some pretty impressive optical recognition technology that not only identifies a card (from a selection of hundreds) and summons the right monster, but it can track the movement of that card - including its distance from the camera and tilt orientation - and keep that monster positioned correctly on it.
Game director Kazuhito Miyaki told CVG:
"All of the different Eye Toy games that we've made so far and the wide range [of gameplay] that we have delivered shows that the camera isn't the key device, it's what we do with it that's important."
When asked how this compared to the motion tracking opportunities offered by the
Wii Remote, he went on the say:
"In Eye of Judgement it's all about summoning the creatures. With other games it'll be about creating a whole different dynamic so, in a way, you could say there is much more potential and ability in our technology."
Source from: News: Sony: Eye Toy has more potential than Wii Remote - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
CosGrove's Thought: I'm not disagreeing that EyeToy will be able to do things the Wiimote can't, that's obvious: it's a camera, which the Wiimote isn't. But how can a 2d camera properly track 3d motion? Yes, it could feasably track the distance and rotation of a 'card', but it would be pretty difficult to get it to register tilt towards and away from the screen consistently... and these magic cards presumably won't have buttons on them and are probably fairly awkward to hold comfortably for long periods of time... 
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