Speaking at last week's E3 expo, marketing chief Peter Dille has said that the PS3's new technology is all about getting hardcore players interesting motion-based control.

The unnamed system, which uses a wand and camera based approach (Microsoft's rival system uses nothing but a camera meanwhile...) will be released in spring 2010, and Dille is adamant that the button-equipped wand system is better than removing the need for the controller that Natal attempts.

"From our perspective we have the technology that provides better precision. And that gives us the opportunity to do the best of both worlds. If you want to do what we're referring to as motion games, the and the motion controller do that quite nicely," he told Kotaku.

"The point that the was trying to articulate, I think, is that there's a level of precision that the wand provides, whether it was in the handwriting demo that gets down to millimeters, that is going to allow game developers to create entirely new types of games that we believe have the potential to appeal to core gamers who, up until now, maybe haven't embraced motion gaming as much as casual fans. So it's a very robust technology that gives you the opportunity to do both."

More on this new system as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge