Justin Rattner, chief technology officer with chip manufacturer Intel, has speculated that Wii 2 may do away with controllers altogether. Rattner spoke to Business Week.

Please bear in mind that Intel is not privy to any inside data. Instead, the company is keen on re-entering the videogame industry after IBM snatched the contracts to supply the CPUs for all three current-gen machines.

Intel has talked to console video game makers about using chips that can perform in excess of 1 trillion calculations per second (BusinessWeek.com, 2/12/07) in future

products that use cameras to track body motion to control the action, instead of using buttons or joysticks.

“We imagine some future generation of [Nintendo’s] Wii won’t have hand controllers,” says Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer. “You just set up the cameras around the room and wave your hand like you’re playing tennis.” Intel missed out on supplying chips for the current generation of game systems, and is trying to gain a foothold there.

To me, that does sound awfully familiar to the PlayStation2

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