E3 2009: Best, Worst, and Weirdest Game Tech ANOTHER YEAR, another Ele<:tronic Entenainment Expo (E3), but this one was definitely splashier than last year' s snooze r, with Microsoft touting Natal, its 3D no-
controller device for games (it wowed the crowd); Sony countering with an ultrapr("(:ise motion-sensing 3D wand; and Nintendo trumpeting its new Wii Vitality
5ccnsor (but no one knows quite what to make of it yet). Sony also showed a smaller, and prider, PlayStation Portable, called the PSP Go. If any single word embod-
ied this year's big gaming-products extravaganza, it was this one: choice.
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AND TWlTTER- lhe glorified mood meterfor any number of bad
can use the sociaL network pretty much as In a regular lK"ow5<!r.
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NINTENDO CALLS ITS WII Vitality SenSOf' a mulliphysiologicallee-d-
SONY INTRODUCED the smaller. lighter PSP Go as Its next handheld
back tool. Insert your linger, and 11 will recognize your pulse. Hmmm.
gaming device. " lacks the dlsc-based UMD drive-and will cost $250.
MICROSOFT' S PROJECT NATAL, an Innovative controllertess motion-
SONY'S OWN MOTlON.oCONTROL system for the PlayStatlon 3 uSesa
trac:king system , was Ihe big hardware news of thi s year's E3.
kind of wand !Inset), built Isn't due lor release u ntil about next June.
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