Hi everyone! We have been talking about EyePet for quite some time now, and I’m happy to let everyone know that we now have a US release date for all you pet lovers who are anxious to get their hands-on EyePet. Just in time for the holidays, EyePet will be available in stores across North America beginning on November 17 for $39.99. For those of you who don’t have a PlayStation Eye, we will be offering a special bundle for $59.99, which will include EyePet and the PS Eye.
If you aren’t familiar with EyePet, it’s basically all the fun of owning a pet without the mess! Featuring next generation augmented reality, EyePet delivers an interactive lifelike, virtual pet right into your own living room using the PS Eye. He will respond and relate to movements in your own world. Pet him, and he will purr. Tickle him and he will laugh. Roll a ball to him and he will chase it. You get the point.
EyePet is also customizable, letting you modify fur length, color and pattern, as well as the ability to outfit your pet with more than 250 unique collectible items. Using the included “Magic Card,” owners can also bring drawings and objects to life by simply sketching things like an airplane or car, and make them your pet’s own three-dimensional toy.
Describing it is one thing. Seeing it is another. Please check out the video featuring Developer Nic Doucet giving a demonstration as to how EyePet works.
We’ll have more to come on EyePet between now and November. So make sure to check back with us here on the PSBlog.
Nice!! I think it’s going to be great!! Thanks for the video!
DO WANT! I know I said I’d shut up but I just can’t help, I was really hoping this wouldn’t just be an EU thing, so glad it’s coming stateside.
I need a life, halp! =(
I’m looking forward to this too, mainly due to the price point in the UK haha. You can get the game and the Eye for £30. That’s a bargain right there!
Game wise, it looks cool too lol
mmhh I’m to old for this and don’t have kids to entertain… but it was great on gamescom, nice technique :)
The sleeper hit of this year. Sony should promote this game because kids are going to love it.
Must have! Bluray or download? I forget… My daughter’s been looking forward to this. Thanks for the great news. Here’s one that Q1 2010 didn’t take from us!
I’m really looking forward to this title.
I wish this could have been available over PSN as a downloadable title for those of us who already have an eye but I guess there are other factors preventing that.
You should should redo eyetoy play,kinetic,antigrav etc. in HD and stick them on the store if you’re serious about pushing the pseye this fall.
I think your timing is great on this game..
I know my nephew will be getting it.
WOW awesome
I think this is the coolest thing…way better than talking to virtual boy (MS)
Nice, I’m getting this game day one :D
I hope this game tanks in sales, which it most likely will, for forcing the infinitely better game of Eight Days, with its wonderfully adaptive cover system, to be canceled.
lame. this will flop hard.
I have a good feeling my EyePet will be flying around on some hand drawn genitalia
Wow you guys are rocking the blog today, thanks for the great posts! I’m getting stoked for sony to have a great holiday.
I’ll be getting this….for my nephew of course…ahem
Man the momentum these guys have!
October- Uncharted, Ratchet
November- Eye Pet
December- GT5?
Then on to next year.
This is great!
Epic win! Video really explained alot of info i was curious about too.
I’ll be buying it day one.
I have a question that probably been on allot of people minds.
How far does the drawing go? Like, is there like only a few things we can draw that will come to life? i only seen a car and a plane, and that it. What if i wanted to draw a tred mill for eyepet to run on? You might already include that but would i be able to do it?
The way the drawing feature works is that you can draw anything you want, but you have to assign it a category so that it knows how to function. For example, you could draw a snail and assign it in the car category and the snail would move around like a car, Or you could draw a bird and assign it as a plane and then use your sixaxis to maneuver the plane. In the game there will be lots of categories to choose from making the possibilities to draw really cool moving objects endless.