As with all products, there are those who believe that PlayStation Move is too expensive. When it launches in September, it will retail for $50, while a bundle including Move, the PS Eye and Sports Champions (a Move launch title) will cost $100.
But according to a few surgeons, claims Richard Marks, a senior researcher at Sony, it's 2000 times cheaper than one of its competitors (if you look at it that way): a laparoscopic surgery simulator. A quick Wikipedia search reveals that laparoscopic surgery involves making tiny incisions in the abdomen (0.5-1.5 cm), which would probably require quite a steady-handed operator, and a very accurate simulator indeed.
"I was talking to some surgeons. They were talking about laparoscopic surgery simulators. They were saying this feels very much like their $100,000 simulators do for surgeons and they'd much rather do something at a lower cost."
He uses this as an argument that Move is not simply for casual games, as many have feared; the "fidelity and precision", he claims, will make it an excellent control system for core games, such as SOCOM 4, which launches in September, and Killzone 3, which hits early next year. Both will support Move at launch.
Marks re-iterates, however, that Dual Shock isn't going anywhere, as it is an "abstract device" which can be mapped to anything.
PlayStation Move launches in mid-September, starting at $50.
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