EyePet Live Demo At E3 2009

EyePet real-time gameplay footage...

[Why o why]

not sure id get it for me but the little ones will love this plus its actually playable so it cant be too far from release

[Saint Sony]

Perfect for kids. They WILL love this for sure.

[Dir_en_grey]

The combination of EyePet and Milo reminded me of Michele Jackson...

[sonarus]

Eight days + Getaway 3 >>>>>>>&g t;Eye pet

[solideagle1]

hahaha how are u man? i know where u r going.....but it was Sony decision but perhaps there are too many sand box games out there and there were not casual sh1t from Sony which sells millions.

thanks

[hay]

Looks great. Pretty accurate hit for younger audience if you ask me.

@Diru: Didn't you know? Milo is already tamagotchi for pedos ;] /obviously a joke

[Saint Sony]

Did I just hear a pimple exploding from your direction? hrrr...

[Syronicus]

They had an absolute ball with Aquatopia and now a pet they can actually interact with, man that will give them hours of fun.

[Lifendz]

in every Sony Kiosk in Wal-mart and other major retailers. Keep the usual game on display in Gamestop and other game only stores, but make sure this game is seen by parents of small children. Wow. I'm actually thinking about buying this when it comes out. Amazing how the PS3eye already does what the press are making such a big deal about with Natal.

[ultimolu]

I'm about to die from the cuteness. *~*
I am so getting a PS Eye.

[50CALheadshot]

anyways, this game looks pretty sick.

Throw in a marvel superheroes license and im in there, like michael jackson in little boys.

eeeeeeeewwwwwwww

[SuperM]

I can promise you there are no where near the amount of people working on Eyepet then what would be required to finish Eight Days and The Getaway. Eyepet is not the reason why the games got cancelled, its more likely other games which we havent even heard about which is the main reason why those games were cancelled. Im guessing London Studios is hard at work with PS3 Motion control games, and im guessing we might hear about them at Gamescon in Germany. Would make sense for the european studios to show their games there, and they need to show off games soon if they are gonna have any games at launch.

[All-3]

The guy draws parts for a helicopter, and the technology comes up with a plane? Hmmmm....

[Kain81]

i dont know what will happen to Getaway3, but Sony is working on 8Days again, i think we will see it at GamesCom, here in germany

[Boody-Bandit]

It's not what you heard but what you felt that bothers you. Just use a pillow when you sit and sleep on your stomach for the next couple nights. Also remember to apply ointment 3 times a day until you are back to normal. You will be okay in no time.

@1.13 All-3
Maybe next time Sony should contact Peter Molyneux and ask him how to pull off a better hoax... Err umm I mean demo.

On topic:
That is a neat demo. Kids will definitely love it.
I just hope Sony and MS always support traditional controllers and don't go completely towards motion and camera controls in the future. I am too old and lazy to get up off the couch after a long day of real life for full body motion entertainment. Just ask my wife ;)

[Ju]

...Helicopter...I am pretty sure, those shapes are predefined. It might recognize a plane, but not a helicopter (like you need to draw some sort of wing, body and propeller). And BTW, the drawing might well be a plane after all.

Anyway, Eye can't do 3D recognition, huh ? Who said that? He moves his hand on a 3D surface. The table is correctly mapped into the pets 3D world. With depth information. What else do people need ?

[menoyou]

Looks awesome and seems to do a lot of what Natal can do.

[Why o why]

Imposible.....Natal IS the First I tell You :)

[50CALheadshot]

he just had to throw that in there. good thing i know what the word comebakc means....too bad i cant spel it

[phosphor112]

That's a plane. The long "propeller" is actually a set of wings...fail @ you.

[barom]

I want this but what bothers me is that they have that card, which to me tells me it's probably gonna be a retail product instead of a PSN title. Which likely means 50-60$ and I was hoping for more around 20$

[Greywulf]

Nice.

Eyepet is pretty powerful.

[Barca_V_V]

i think they are going to bundle the game with the pseye for 60$, makes sense to me.

standalone gonna be probably 40$.

[The Lazy One]

you mean besides an actual pet...

ON TOPIC. I like the amount of customization with the pet with the fur manipulation and stuff. Looked very cool.

And ju, the eye uses 3d approximation. It doesn't sense 3d space.

[aaron5829]

Cos, i dont have any kids yet...

:P

Even if i do have kids now, i'll rather get an actual pet.. but then again, an actual pet would eventually cost more..

Yeah, EyePet it is. When is this coming out ?

Can you slap it ?? Because i can only imagine playing a game like Black and White using this tech....

Imagine we can slap our "creatures" in B&W ....

[waljaber]

this is amazing my daughter keep asking me everyday about it.
they should make more of this games for the eye toy and the new motion controller.

[Cajun Chicken]

Wow, that's pretty cool. Still a rent though, this isn't my type of game and there are a lot of my type of games coming out this year and the start of next.

[green]

it's sooo cute.

[saint_john_paul_ii]

can you feed it cheeseburgers?

[robotnik]

Of course you can! BTW I thought you were dead, John,

[50CALheadshot]

probably, i heard you can give it weed smoke. now you have a smoking buddy who wont hog the L

[saint_john_paul_ii]

O RLY? i guess thats how smart Pet monkeys are. If I had a pet monkey, i would make smoke with me, I mean read the Bible with me....

[qface64]

man with the name EYEPET i was assuming you could choose your pet of choice =[
i don't like that monkey or lion or whatever it is

i wanted a ferret T^T

[Saint Sony]

There's only several million of species to model. Be patient.

[Grown Folks Talk]

Monchichi

[Rifle-Man]

LOL! Someone else remembers Monchichi!

[FFXI101]

Lol, agree. I didn't think there're people know much about mochichi.

[cereal_killa]

Monchichi wow there something that will show your true age I haven t heard of the in a looooooooooong time.

[xabmol]

Kinda reminds me of Fievel.

[clintos59]

Not a game for me but it impressed me and ill be buying this only because I know my nieces and nephews will enjoy this game.

I bet this game will be huge in japan.

[artgamer]

Natal what...?

[GIJeff]

MS is finally catching up with the ps2 and im supposed to be impressed?

[ChozenWoan]

which one is coming to market first... yea!

[El Botto]

I thought microsoft changed gaming forevar?

[tdrules]

Eyepet was announced last year, wayyyy before natal

[RedPawn]

You've gotta have good games to do that.

[talltony]

showed this off at E3 then people would have gone crazy! lol

[Man_of_the_year]

ya this is pretty cool. Great for kids. However the difference with this and Natal is that this you still need to use a peripheral as you can see in the video while Natal you wouldn't. The whole point of Natal, which what i think you are all missing, is that the person IS the peripheral whereas the eyetoy the user is not the peripheral.

Thats the difference. I am sure you guys can understand that. Eyetoy needs peripheral, Natal doesn't.

Eyetoy needs to read something separated from your body to register an image or action on the screen. Natal reads your body.

Eyetoy also doesn't have voice recognition...Natal does.

Not saying Natal is leaps and bounds from eyetoy, but it is more sophisticated technology wise.

I have Eyetoy and love playing Eye of Judgment with friends online...but there are some BIG differences in both pieces of Technology here.

You would have to be an idiot, or a particular fanboy not to be able to see the differences.

[knowledge4lfe]

see the biggest problem with natal to ME, is that I am the peripheral. why would i wanna be the peripheral??im playing a first person shooter, or a hack n slash and all i am doing is holding my hands in the air, swinging my hands around like a retard . id rather have a wand/controller in my hand and me performing those actions. mimicking 1.1 exactly what im doing. watch the natal demos they are slightly off. and i gotta pay GOD knows how much for that camera??i already have an eye toy all i need is a controller, maybe $30-$40 tops. when i make you a bet natal is gonna cost $150+. not to mention playing it on a piece of hardware that has a 30+% chance of failing. i dunno about you, but my brain would prefer to actually have a peripharel in my hands , actually physically touching something then grabbing/flailing the air.i think natal will be great. but i just feel for ME having the controller in my hand mimicking 1.1 what i do , is so much better then flailng my arms with no physical object in my hand.and the price point/hardware failure also turns me off.just MY opinion.

[Man_of_the_year]

Why are you only assuming that Natal will be used for hack n slack games or FPS games? There are other possibilites out there. What about a fighting game where the moves you do are the moves in the game, kick, punch, uppercut....what about boxing games...or why not have Natal work along side controllers?

I think you are being very narrowminded regarding the possibilities that a dev can do to make a game. Not all games have to be FPS or hack n slash games. And maybe natal can do more than just for games. Voice recognition for one thing...think about playing FF XIII and instead of going through a menu system, selecting the character, then his action, you just say...."cloud, spell, fireball..." or if you are playing Oblivion you say fireball, or quickly point your finger at the tv and a magic missle flys out at the enemy....

You need to open up your mind. We are in the infancy of this kind of technology where it can be applied to games...lets see how it transpires. remember you don't have to buy anything you don't want.

I for one have no problem with paying $200 for this. I am a tech freek and i have no problem with paying $100 for 2 wands for my PS3. But atleast i can see the benifits of both technologies where as you only choose to see the benefits of 1. And using the 1:1 ratio and saying you like holding wands just makes you narrow minded. How do you know that when Natal is released it won't be 1:1, and if you like holding a wand in your hand, why wouldn't you like being able to do the same action without the wand in your hand and still having the same outcome?

I think i know why. I don't see on your Bio a gamertag for a 360 yet you are very set in mind that the wands from Sony are much better than Natal.....

[talltony]

I want both for different reasons. Sony's for the hardcore fps's that I want to play with the wands and I want Natal in the hope that I can actually control my fighters movements in a fight night game. I need both cause having only one will just not cut it for me. plus i dnt think project natal will cost 200 bucks, I think it will be even more affordable.

[knowledge4lfe]

first off i was just using hack and slash/fps as an example. also u mention about a rpg and saying what you wanna do, yea the eyetoy as well has a microphone and voice recognition. second when i had a 360 was before you probably ever did, but guess what?? the POS rrod on me 3 times, was sick of paying yearly for online which was not much better then sonys at the time, and having to pay for every little thing.like wireless adapter, rechargeable battery pack, HD DVD drive etc. so i traded it in to gamestop ,got store credit and used it towards my other consoles i have that actually work.and you mention"y not have natal work alongside controllers"?? so on top of natals price i have to spend even more money for controllers?? or do u mean a regular 360 controller? another problem i have with 360. how much more cost do i have to spend on little things that should be part of the console??

u write" if you are playing Oblivion you say fireball, or quickly point your finger at the tv and a magic missle flys out at the enemy...." yea wow and the eyetoy/motion controller cant do that??
and you say you have no problem paying $200 for this?? but im sure you complain about the ps3 price point right??? but as usual the 360 just butt rapes you for every penny.and how am i narrow minded for actually wanting to physically have something in my hands compared to grabbing air??? explain this to me???

u write "I think i know why. I don't see on your Bio a gamertag for a 360 yet you are very set in mind that the wands from Sony are much better than Natal....." as i explained i had a 360.and i dont think i ever said that the wands are much better then natal. never said that. but as usual an idiot 360 fanboy glances, i repeat glances over a comment and wants to cry. and try to insult. read i repeat read what i wrote. I/ME prefer the sony motion controller for those reasons.and i never said natal sucked/was garbage or devs cant do other things. but as usual you didnt actually READ my comment.
and also y did you completely change you original comment that i responded to???

also y cant someone have an opinion???? i never once said in my first comment " sony is the bomb , microsoft sucks big bobs fat dyck. i just said y i prefer one over the other. but u get all upset?? i hate that shyt. do u work for microsoft?? own there stock??? and yo have to insult me?? man thats sad

[Man_of_the_year]

I went to a special VIP opening for the 360, opening night. So unless you got yours the day 1 of its global release, then no you didn't get yours before i got mine...and so what if yours RROD 3 times. Mine RROD 3 times, then the 4th xbox's disc tray didn't open the day i received it. So i had 5!!! Xbox's and then i bought an elite with the falcon chip...which then also RROD on me. Each one i didn't pay a cent for the repairs.

After reading some of your other comments i have to say that you are talking complete rubbish. Why would you have to buy another controller? Why couldn't you just use the one that came with your 360? You are clearly ignorant and know not what you are talking about. You are clearly just focusing on every Sony Fanboy comment that is negative to the 360 even having to bring up the eyetoy and saying that it is the same as Natal shows your ignorance and allegiance. This is about Natal not RROD or xbox live. You choose FPS/hack n slash for a reason rather than using your head to think of other possibilities.

I can't believe i had to waste my last bubble on the likes of you. You are narrow minded and are clearly not a gamer. maybe in 10 years when motion controls are mainstream and some of the best games out on the market are motion controlled / voice recognized you will remember this conversation and your short sightedness.

[knowledge4lfe]

as you sad now??? who cares if i didnt have to spend a penny on the repair?? y the fyuck did i spend $400 on a console that keeps breaking down?? goes to show that u dont value "reliabilty". u made no valid point at all in ur last comment. i guess your sad cause u cant think of anything else. maybe instead of getting so upset, explain a lil bit. as i said before, read my 1st comment instead of having your period. i just said i prefer sonys motion control compared to nadal. u had 5 rrod's. good job and you think its ok. man that is really sad. a 360 fanboy and there common sense as usual. so i go out and buy a new phone/camera anything. and it keeps breaking but i have a warranty , after a couple of times you would think that maybe, just maybe the thing is a piece of shYt and you should get something a little better. and boo hoo, you lost a bubble. poor you.

"your stupid comment:" After reading some of your other comments i have to say that you are talking complete rubbish. Why would you have to buy another controller? Why couldn't you just use the one that came with your 360?**( if you werent a little girl and noticed the question mark at the end, you would see im asking a question.but noooo you again DID NOT READ my comment) You are clearly ignorant and know not what you are talking about.****(please EXPLAIN , not cry, how i am ignorant???) You are clearly just focusing on every Sony Fanboy comment that is negative to the 360 even having to bring up the eyetoy and saying that it is the same as Natal shows your ignorance and allegiance(again where did i say they were the SAME???please mr man of the year, show me). This is about Natal not RROD or xbox live( whoa there, you genius. in order to use NATAL you do need a console that actually works. not one that every couple of months break down and needs repair. but but but but i didnt have to pay a penny for the repair. good point*sarcasm). You choose FPS/hack n slash for a reason rather than using your head to think of other possibilities.( how is that?????that is probably 75% of the games that people play. and me not use my head?? at least i know how to read what you WRITE, and actually explain y i think your wrong instead of crying and screaming fanboyism)

[cmrbe]

Leave Man alone. He just doens't like the fact that you had a bad experience with the x360 and you are being open about it. Obviously you are just a gamer that dosen't like being nickle and dime by MS. Thats perfectly understandable in the real world but it's not in the x360 trolls world lol!.

[Narutone66]

a MS paid troll here at N4G.

"I went to a special VIP opening for the 360, opening night..."
No wonder you defend a defective POS hardware so zealously.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

I can't believe London studios canned 8Days and The Getaway 3 for this game. All that time and effort gone in to making those 2 BlockBuster games all lost for this stupid EYEPet stuff that fails to amaze me.

I just hope both of those titles are still being developed.

[Zones]

People are making that up without having any real evidence. Eight Days and Getaway were cancelled because of internal issues, like for one, the Getaway creator left London Studios and formed Team Bondi.

Get your facts straight!

[Dark_Overlord]

Just put on hold for the time being, and may be resumed at a later date

[Zones]

"A Sony UK representative assured CVG that both titles had been "completely cancelled", and so will not be rescued from the bin at a later date."

[All-3]

http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

Question: Is EyePet one of those products that the cancellation of The Getaway and Eight Days projects has directly benefited?

Shuhei Yoshida: Yes, there are so many things that we want to do, more than we can do with the resources. So when London Studio was looking at the early work on EyePet and the prototype of Eight Days, they knew they couldn't do all of them - and there are even more things they're working on at early concept stage. So your expertise and ideas are best spent on some titles rather than others.

* So EyePet directly benefited from The Getaway and Eight Day cancellations... because they couldn't make all of the games, and their expertise and ideas were best served on the EyePet project. You asked for some proof - there it is.

[Christopher]

That's a rumor started by the online gaming community. They were cancelled because they didn't have enough resources to do them all, not because EyePet was forced to the front or ahead of the others. EyePet benefited, but did not cause their downfall. Lack of resources caused their downfall (ie it's cheaper to develop EyePet than the other two).

[Gladiator7]

PS3 Eye is Multistage..

[TheBand1t]

Obnoxiously cute. It should be killed with fire.

[Clarence Callahan]

If you think that about little animals, then you are the first to go.

[KingKionic]

Look at the little guy...playing with bubbles.

[THC CELL]

Microsoft has nothing

best feature on xbox is faceplate changing

[MGOelite]

eye pet> natal

[meetajhu]

Natal Can't do that! I hate eye toys and motion stuff. But this thing was something interesting i never thought the response will be so accurate!

[kaveti6616]

How do you know? Are you the lead technical director of anything?

[dylantalon]

i want this game now and i cant believe it works that well.
PS3 IS THE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE IS PS3

ps. the talon stands for talented

[kaveti6616]

I wonder what you'll be saying when Sony announces the PS4

[robotnik]

Xbots will love it ;)

[TheTruth89]

Amazing!

The "Minority Report Menu Switch" is the prove that Natal is ALREADY SEEN tecnology!
The same for the image recognition.

Natal what?? Natal sh!t.

[Bathyj]

The damn things so wretchedly adorable. Like a little Rory Calhoon.

Eyepet+Eyetoy=BathyJ, Uncle of the Year.

Is anyone else impressed with the taking a photo of a drawing and popping a 3D shape out of it? Thats pretty amazing, I wonder how complex it can go.

[Monk3y]

looks awesome :o

now i know what am getting my 3year old bro as a bday present

[ShabzS]

holy sh*t... its so cute ... i want one i want one

[xdye017]

Pass. My Chihuahua is more fun.

[Gun_Senshi]

Natal

[knowledge4lfe]

dude i have never seen that video, and wow. thank you for showing that to show xbox fanboys that playstation owners have been having fun with pretty similar tech for quite some time, at a much lower pricepoint, with more stable hardware. bubbles bubbles and more bubbles to you

[Chuk_Chuk]

i loled. talk about owned

[Redlight]

I've got a little girl who would love that thing. Brilliant!

[zok310]

Why are you not pushing this game the way Ms is pushing Natal????

[Troll-Killer]

Sony spent all their $$ on Cell and Blu-Ray; there's none leftover for proper marketing. Sony's stupid like that. :/

[PirateThom]

Yeah, imagine investing in tech and games rather than advertising. What a terrible idea.

[hatchimatchi]

lol, awesome comment pirate thom.

This eye pet thing looks really cool, i'm gonna have to invest in an eye toy now.

Anyone catch the voice recognition? I wonder what happens if you yell at it instead of make baby noises. Not that i'd want to yell at it but i'm curious to see how responsive it is as far as tones.

[Bathyj]

Yeah, funny how the loudest mouth has the least to talk about.

[Christopher]

Because, unlike Microsoft, Sony doesn't have billions of dollars at their disposal to just throw around. The majority of their earnings go straight into ongoing R&D for new products.

[GIJeff]

is not in either the natal or the eyetoy, its in the software. since sony has the beefier hardware, it can run better software, thus, the voice recognition in EYEPET has the potential to be better and more accurate than anything project fail-tal can do.

[Troll-Killer]

...and people said Milo was creepy. What the hell is this monkeydogelf thing? 0_o

[skip2mylou]

ahh u must be new to gaming. it is close resembling Mochichi which is pretty dam famous in japan

[thebudgetgamer]

let dr Michio Kaku explain.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

:)

[onanie]

Great stuff, thought the trailer was just marketing material, but this is real!

[mrv321]

Let's see

The ability to control the menu using hand movements... tick
Your monkey can see and use the picture you drew.... tick
Endwar can detect my voice.... tick
Softwere off PSN can tell if a picture is happy or sad.... tick

Where one off Milo and Natal... which is the 3D thing.... but hey Sonys not making such a big deal about it.

[na2ru1]

Well BAM! there it is.

[cereal_killa]

lmao I wonder if we can see what the bottom of the eyepets foot looks like.

[andron]

But it really seem to work and will probably be a big hit with children...

[MajestieBeast]

BUBUBUBU nATAL HAS THE BOTTOMZ of a avatars shoe. Im sorry but everyone is s*cking ms d*ck while this tech is obviously more advanced then natal is in my opinion. The monkey copied the guys exact drawing the body didnt even look that much like a helicopter. What i find even more strange is no big site like ign has got any news on this pretty sad.

[Death2494]

Sixaxis already debunked it. Large sites like Ign.com don't want to seem(although they are) biased towards any console.

Microsoft's opening line for Natal should've been.....
" Throw out that Live Vision Cam cause you won't need it anymore when this comes out, just like that HD-DVD drive you bought...."

[Death2494]

Natal's Achilles heel is going to be it's price when it comes out. Analyst say that there is no way it's going to retail sub-100$. That being said, they can't bundle it cause it will raise the cost to about $299.99.
Games are going to decide this and Sony has the largest 1st party out of all of them.

Xbox 360 core= 149.99
Natal = 99.99<
only 50$ cheaper than the actual system.
Oh let's not forget waster 40$(Live Vision Cam absolute)

[bigboss911]

Can u make it mean? lol I can imagine it cussing me out when i turn it on at 1 o'clock in the morning. "Turn off the F#@$%&* lights you dumb $#*&." Then i give it a cookie, only to take it away at the last second. "You selfish ba$%@!$ give it BACK NOWWWWWW! Then it trys to come through my tv screen like some crazed beast at the zoo! lol

[Godmars290]

That in less than an hour when AI programs are finally released to the general public, they will become "evil" and destroy humanity.

[oldskoolgamer]

LMAO that was hilarious dude, here have a bubble

[randomwiz]

lol, they should make an eye walter(one of jeff dunham's(a very good ventriliquist) puppets.

[FFXI101]

First time I saw it, Mochichi in there is so cute.

[RealtorMDandDC]

the kid would love it..........

[Ziggazee]

Wow looks fun, i mite get it for a mess about and show my neice n nephew it, i know theyl love it.. They should pack it with the PSeye.. Iv got that card game that came with the PSeye and i never play it.. This looks good tho.

[GIJeff]

try that "card game". youll be amazed. you can interact with the cards in 3d space. the characters come to life from the card, and you can poke them and theyll attack you and crap. its fun.

[Blackcanary]

will come in handy since i'm at uni and can't have any pets.

Can't wait for this i'm gonna call him Ponyo lol.

[jarhead906]

I had thought that the Getaway franchise had a lot of fans. Seem weird that Sony would cancel its development. Eight Days also looked very promising in terms of visuals and cover mechanics.

The kids will definitely love Eye Pet though.

[deshon09]

a second ps3 or my wife and daughter system so i can play mine in peace lol but they will love this
i got the ps eye toy with the card game damn what it name but they love it and im sure they will love this to but there was a game that you play useing the ps eye were you can talk to the character and they understand you and respond accordingly did the cancel that to ?

[Blackcanary]

on wiki it states that its supposed to come out this year.

[villevalorox]

lol. i cant wait to get this :D

[Alcohog]

My daughter will go ape **** for this.

[kaveti6616]

Very Cute. Hope Sony really pushes this towards the casuals because if Sony does this well then they can make back all that money they're losing on the PS3 hardware and then we can see even more awesome games from them.

[Jeff257]

Well ive already got the PSEye so Im hoping this wont be too expensive without the camera. Anyway my kids would have a blast with this so i know ill be getting it.