April Fools: Smell your PS3 games with PlayStation Scent

by David Hinkle on Apr 1st 2010 5:00PM

Move over Move, Sony's taking gaming into an all-new dimension: scent. Remember Smell-O-Vision? Of course you don't -- you're not that old. Well friends, the crack technology featured in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery is the future again, as Sony has announced "PlayStation Scent" with OXYtracking -- head past the break for the video press conference. Just affix the PlayStation Scent to your nose and start playing. At key moments, scent information embedded in the Blu-ray game disc will be transmitted to your nose!

The "Odorama" begins with a re-issue of Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2. Finally, you can smell the tucked in part of Drake's half-tuck. Then, experience all the sweet nose candy of upcoming releases Gran Turismo 5 (burning rubber) and SOCOM 4 (burning flesh!) -- now with PlayStation Scent support. Order yours today from Webhallen.com!

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Tags: april-fools, april-fools-2010, oxytrack, playstation-scent

Reader Comments (59)

We can, but you failed at it. Stutterwave fixed it for you.

While this is a joke, the concept did exist, and a company was working on it,

It was a device that hooked up to your pc, and contained concentrated scents. It warmed up the scents, and you could smell things. It worked by combining different scents. The company said it was still working on it, and had to prevent things like a "virus" going out, targetting the device itself, and making it emit horrible odors. Company never got it out, or perfected it apparantly. It was never released.