Microsoft is planning to introduce motion sensitivity to the Xbox360 “by the end of next year”, XboxFamily has learnt.

The details are still sketchy, but it appears a first-party add-on to existing controllers may be the delivery method of the technology. (…) It appears Microsoft has contracted the Saratoga, California firm, Gyration to handle the peripheral.

Gyration developed the original Wii controller prototypes, as the company claims on their site:

Gyration developed the first motion sensing Nintendo game controller prototype in 2001 and developed much of the interaction concepts amoung motion controllers and game play.

Now, you may not have heard of the news site at the source of that rumour since they are fairly

new. Registered to an address in Cincinnati, Ohio, they are “comprised of several original members of SEGAone.com which originally launched in the fall of 2000″, according to their own history.

The new site was founded that year and initially off to a shaky start. But they seemed to have turned a corner within the last few months.

What lends them some credibility in my books is the fact that they dispel some myths about the rumour they started. In a second article, they claim that a number of prototype designs “going around the net” are unrelated to the Xbox360. Unfortunately, they do not name any source. Here they are:

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