Sony's motion controller, titled Gem in its early incarnation, is without an officially announced name. However, VG247 cites a “concrete source” who “has it in good authority” that the device has been named Arc.
Sony, unsurprisingly, had no comment on the matter. The wand-shaped device (whatever its name) has a motion sensor on its top and works in conjunction with the PlayStation Eye to track movement and is set to release sometime in 2010.
Arc is kind of catchy (fulfilling one of our resolutions for Sony for the year) and is certainly better than Gem or HandToy.
7 Comments
January 19, 2010
Not bad...not bad.
January 19, 2010
Guys, with all the respect, who cares what its name is/will be? I wanna know that it does!!!!!:)
January 19, 2010
I still vote for calling it the Don Magic Wand.
January 19, 2010
Apparently they didn't do enough market to find out what "ARC" is short for.
January 19, 2010
that should have said "market research"
January 20, 2010
With the crowed they're shooting for with this thing I think Gem would've resonated better.
January 21, 2010
they shouldve just called it PS3 motion plus lol.... lame