Wonderbook details emerge

The concept is good, and there is potential for good games, but the Book of spells or what-ever looks down-right stupid.

I wonder when SCEE London Studio might go back to developing Eight Days and The Getaway instead of making these casual video games.

Interesting. I hope this is not another uDraw Tablet, like THQ's.

Looks like a piece of !@#$ to me, i just want to play real games, doesnt even look like the kids will enjoy it very much a day a week. Then they will get board

The presentation of the game doesn't seem to be very fun.

With second thought, what about detective or puzzle games using PS move controller.

Sorcery seems to be more fun to me. Creating first person adventure-exploration games would be more interesting.

This thing better bring me a pop-up Playboy magazine and a full 3D Better Homes and Gardens magazine, or I will be most displeased.

I need a life.

I want to like this project but there is a core concept that causes it to fail for me. The concept of reading a book through a TV. Looking at the video, some of those words are going to be hard to read unless very close to the TV. And also, while the TV will show all the sparkles, when the kid looks down at the actual book it will always be a jarring difference that ruins immersion.

Something like this needed to wait until things like Google Googles take off. AR via a phone or TV will always be subpar to AR in glasses.

This will keep kids attention for maybe a week and then the fun and interest will be over. How many spells could they possible put in that book? It looks like it has maybe 8-10 pages. Once all the spells are mastered and all the special effects and creatures are scene, kids will either go back to REAL video games or go out and play.

The big question is can this wand turn water into wine and objects into solid gold?

Weird, but different.

I'll get this for my little cousin.

I guess if I was a parent and my kid was 8-12 I would think was pretty cool...but Im not so....meh.

Such a meh product.....

This looks awesome.  I cant wait to see the later implications for ar.

Here's a better idea, parents: Just buy your kids an actual book. 

Developers are still crawling in terms of augmented reality. But let's give this premature birth a chance....

Let's go read some real books and use our imagination! The AR effects can only do so much and it will require an near-idealistic environment and participant to work correctly. I have no doubt that after the initial excitement wears off, kids and adults alike will struggle more with it than enjoy the provided content.

This will be good for some kids but these days kids are mostly interested in blowing stuff up, sorry but i dont see how this is going to work unless its aimed at 4 year olds witch i doubt it is. 

Honestly, if you watch the video, I'm pretty convinced that kids would in fact love this.  I'm not a Sony guy, but they definitely have something going here.  The big issue I see though is the need for so many peripherals.  You need the Eyetoy, this wonderbook, the game itself, and the PS Move.  That's a lot to ask a person to get just to have their kid play a game for a few months.

YEAH BABY! I can't wait till they release Playboy for the Wonderbook. That'll sell way better than this kiddie BS.

Hey look, it's Harry Potter for Dummies.

If you want to get lost in a fantasy read an actual book. These resources could be spent making something everyone would enjoy for more than an hour.

And not a single fuck was given that day.

Kiddies will love this.

It might sell reasonably well on the strength that most Harry Potter fans are fucking idiots, but it's not gonna go the distance. More and more these days as Sony and Microsoft try to artificially extend the life of their consoles with crappy peripheral after crappy peripheral I am reminded of Sega's "genius" with the Sega CD and Sega 32X, because THOSE worked out SO well......right?

The issue I have with this is that it is a throw away toy that will end up abandoned after a couple of days, much like Eye Pet. My daughter lost interest in said game very quickly due to the unsupported, shallowness of the game. The camera recognition is often glitchy and she ended up more frustrated with it than enjoying it. I can see this happening again with this game so I will not be wasting my money on it. 

Nothing against the product.  It is what it is.  The problem I see is this having no marketable aspects unless it's for more than some Harry Potter title.  It getting such a show at E3 also seems silly.  I'm reminded of those goofy skateboards that came out with a Tony Hawk title.  Nintendo is aimed at kids, which this seems to be 100% meant for, and I have a hard time seeing even them selling a peripheral with such limited use.  Nice tech, but no gaming appeal.

I love how everyone's acting as if Sony described this as a hardcore game. It's aimed to the children, and its technology is impressive. So shut it. If I had a child, and this would make it happy, I'd be standing out of the store from the midnight to get one when it opens.

"Gamers" know what's gaming, and what's purely for nonsensical entertainment for kids. How low has the IQ average for the gaming community went?

AR games sounded like theyd be fun, but after playing them for 2 minutes, they are so boring. i have no interest in ever playing an AR game, ever