ironman said:
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.
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Yeah, thats why they were using a 360, and said it it will work with ALL 360s, including the ones allready sold. And yes, if Wii hadn't come out with their motion controller, Xbox may not have done the NATAL project. But then again...who knows.
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I am not skeptical in the sense it cannot work. I am more skeptical in the sense it seems to be a precursor to what the next Xbox will ship with as standard.
Also, Nintendo have marketed after peripheral. They put a wheel with mario kart. they put the board with the Wii. But in effect those peripherals are more singular in their application. Natal, to it's credit is a revolutionary concept that is meant to make you the controller and is meant to make any handheld controller antiquated. It is obviously aime to have a much wider application than any board or plastic wheel. Hence why I think it is a serious userbase "breaker".
Again, I am not the frikken oracle here. I am no Sony beatch or Nintendo minion. I am just espousing an opinion based on what I see in the here and now and I am more than happy to be absolutely wrong and have to do a 180 on the 360 and pay homage to the visonary path that MS is taking with this.
