NATAL is the SHIZNIT!!!

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Homeroids said:

I know I shouldn't be but I remain skeptical. I think the fact he said that developers were getting their kits "today" (and he meant today as in a literal sense) kind of bewildered me. That kind of means it is a ways off and why would it be today? To keep secret I guess, is the answer but obviously others have had it earlier. Lionheart?

The other thing - dividing your userbase. Yeah Sega did this with a CD drive. Consoles are set in stone. They are not PC's - the hardware does not evolve. I see Natal really an Xbox 720 thing.

I am also skeptical about the voice recognition with the Milo demo. Even a beefed up i7 PS with grunt well past a console would struggle processing that type of "on the fly" unscripted AI.

I have no doubt it may be possible now but not on 3 year old hardware.

Sorry, skeptic here, "marketing speak" awareness needed :).

I hope I am wrong.

How many times this gen will Nintendo divide the userbase? Wii Board, Wii Motion Plus, Wii Activity Sensor, etc.  If done correctly you can offer add on peripherals.  What MS should do is sell Natal with the intent when NextBox comes out you dont need to purchase a new one.  Also as for processing power the Natal may have its own co-processor that does work before sending information to the console.

I also believe that MS should license the technology to others.  The technology could be put to use in many other ways.