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Wyku on 03 June 2009
selnor said:
txrattlesnake said:
natal is going to be a bigger flop than the movie Ishtar. At least in its 360 iteration.


I'll bet you a whole year avatar control that Natal will double 360 sales worldwide or more. The media have a hold on this one. And M$ will advertise this more than Halo 3 got advertised. Just watch. I know loads of people already who want this new true motion technology and Minority Report style device.

This is what I thought about when I saw the hand waving motions and whatnot heh. It will be interesting if they can make it like that CNN interactive board they used during the election, I don't see why they couldn't.



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Shadowblind on 03 June 2009
Leonidus said:
selnor said:
Pristine20 said:
You guys are blowing this natal thing waay out of proportion. I saw it and it looked no different from the ancient eyetoy that no one bought. How people suddenly think this would triple 360 sales is beyond me. Maybe I'm missing something....

Same goes for sony's motion ccontrol. Wii is already universally accepted as the place to go for motion controls. How many can the market support? It's like saying avatars sold more 360s. These things are all gimmicks and they came late to the party. I can't wait for these great news journalists to start looking stupid yet again

Eyetoy is not even remotely close. Watch the demos of Natal capabilities. Then tell me Milo is possible on Eyetoy. look again. Eyetoy was nothing to the tech of this.

What will you use Milo's tech for related to gaming though?

Not eveyone wants to talk to virtual characters through a screen, its petty. If they could implement it into gaming (the scanning element) then fantastic, its great tech that is relevant and enhances gaming


It will probably be bundle with Natal at launch. I can't really see a ton of people paying for it standalone. Doesn't make sense.



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megaman79 on 03 June 2009
selnor said:
megaman79 said:
selnor said:
megaman79 said:
The Xbox Man said:
@meaman79

yup

lol easiest bet EVER!

ok your serious. Well how about this, average 360 sales ww 120k so 250k average per week from now on? I mean your betting that the publicity alone can double the sales, even before games are announced?
Nope. I said when it releaes.

And you said August? Ok so we wait 2 months then.

No M$ said Autumn on GMTV. Not me. The bet starts when it's out. Do you think I'm that stupid?

I dk, you quoted a news source that said a release date and price that seems completely unrealistic so you tell me.

Whenever it releases we will do this bet ok, sweet.



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Leonidus on 03 June 2009
Shadowblind said:
Leonidus said:
selnor said:
Pristine20 said:
You guys are blowing this natal thing waay out of proportion. I saw it and it looked no different from the ancient eyetoy that no one bought. How people suddenly think this would triple 360 sales is beyond me. Maybe I'm missing something....

Same goes for sony's motion ccontrol. Wii is already universally accepted as the place to go for motion controls. How many can the market support? It's like saying avatars sold more 360s. These things are all gimmicks and they came late to the party. I can't wait for these great news journalists to start looking stupid yet again

Eyetoy is not even remotely close. Watch the demos of Natal capabilities. Then tell me Milo is possible on Eyetoy. look again. Eyetoy was nothing to the tech of this.

What will you use Milo's tech for related to gaming though?

Not eveyone wants to talk to virtual characters through a screen, its petty. If they could implement it into gaming (the scanning element) then fantastic, its great tech that is relevant and enhances gaming


It will probably be bundle with Natal at launch. I can't really see a ton of people paying for it standalone. Doesn't make sense.

Yea, it would be pretty cool playing about with it, I must admit.

I laughed though during the presentation, I was like 'why the hell is this women treating this guy like her son?'



Wyku on 03 June 2009
Leonidus said:
selnor said:
Pristine20 said:
You guys are blowing this natal thing waay out of proportion. I saw it and it looked no different from the ancient eyetoy that no one bought. How people suddenly think this would triple 360 sales is beyond me. Maybe I'm missing something....

Same goes for sony's motion ccontrol. Wii is already universally accepted as the place to go for motion controls. How many can the market support? It's like saying avatars sold more 360s. These things are all gimmicks and they came late to the party. I can't wait for these great news journalists to start looking stupid yet again

Eyetoy is not even remotely close. Watch the demos of Natal capabilities. Then tell me Milo is possible on Eyetoy. look again. Eyetoy was nothing to the tech of this.

What will you use Milo's tech for related to gaming though?

Not eveyone wants to talk to virtual characters through a screen, its petty. If they could implement it into gaming (the scanning element) then fantastic, its great tech that is relevant and enhances gaming


It could have some serious RPG benefits to it.



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Leonidus on 03 June 2009

Lol at these Autumn reports.
When did Sony say Home would come out?



mike_intellivision on 03 June 2009

I find it highly suspicious that Microsoft would announce price and date on a UK morning show while NOT giving out any such information at E3.

I also find it highly suspicious that there is nothing else on the Internet about this.

Autumn is possible -- Autumn 2010. If it were 2009, Microsoft would have released more information about it at E3.

This is a prototype right now. Impressive with potential. But whether it is a Wii Whacker or an Eye Toy Imitator remains to be seen.

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badgenome on 03 June 2009
mike_intellivision said:
But whether it is a Wii Whacker or an Eye Toy Imitator remains to be seen.

Clever.



bardicverse on 03 June 2009

Why did the MS conference on Monday say Spring 2010 for NATAL? It seems that the people at E3 would more likely have their facts straight than a guy on a random tv broadcast.



Dryden on 03 June 2009

It is worth noting that Johnny Chung Lee, the CMU wiz of Wii headtracking/YouTube fame, works for MS on Project Natal now.

http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-natal.html

Again, I want to see this in a real application and not one of MS's 'vision' videos. That said, if Johnny Chung Lee is impressed by MS's tech, than I am impressed too. He breaks down a bit more about *how* it works and identifies people in the "cloud" on his blog.