PlayStation Move Gets the Teardown Treatment
The guts of a phone but in a controller...
So you bought Sony's latest peripheral, PlayStation Move, and you've spent the last 24 hours whooshing and waving while you get your Move on in the living room. It's been great but now you've got Move elbow and you can't play anymore. What can you do? Take it apart. Apparently it's really, really easy.
Unlike the iPod and smartphone tear downs, you won't need any special wedging tools to get Move open. As long as you're reasonably confident in your Phillips-head screwdriver abilities, you should have no problems. Getting it open aside, the iFixit team says that given the amount of tech Sony has managed to cram into the controller, $50 is actually quite good value for money:
"The Move contains many of components found in today’s smartphones: a processor, accelerometer, gyroscope, Bluetooth transmitter, vibrating motor, and even a MEMS compass. It’s an amazing amount of tech for the money, even though we still think it’s steep to pay $50 for a controller. Compared to a $40 WiiMote, though, it’s quite the bang for the buck."
Check out what the iFixit crew found inside:
Be sure to click through for the highlights and full details of the teardown.







Not a kid but I freaking love Mario kart! Which self-respecting gamer can say they dont honestly love mario kart?
Lol! You had me googling that one! Well done!
Just hope that if there is a PS3 game that uses a sword of any kind that the game doesn't limit the movement to pre-programmed attacks; ala the Wii and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
The Force Unleashed was a big load of FAIL for the Wii, in my opinion, because the light saber attacks were not free movement. Heck, the Sword Play for Wii Sports Resort is more fun than The Force Unleashed because of it, being able to as Darth Vader and use the Force or not!
The Hitachi Wand massager... is used perhaps HALF the time for its "intended" marketing function as shown on the box.
Im guessing the light-bulb part is so that players know who they are?
Which just proves the ps3 being rubish!
FPS belongs on a system with a mouse
Consoles are for kids to play mario kart anyway
Not a kid but I freaking love Mario kart! Which self-respecting gamer can say they dont honestly love mario kart?
There is one already. It is in Sports Championship. You use 1 controller as your shield and the other as your sword. It is a freaking blast to play. Optionally you can use just one controller if you want, but the feel of holding up your shield where needed and chopping and hacking at people from any direction you want is pretty impressive.
The Wiimote and motionplus are a bit more simplistic. The Wiimote has IR emitters (like a tv remote but two of them), it has 1 linear accelerometer and can sense 3 axis motion. The motionplus added 2 more axis sensing and a gyroscope. Ifixit did a comparison of the 2 on their site.
and the gene-pool will thank you for it.....