| selnor said: NATAL is the biggest innovation in gaming for the last 20 years. |
Surely you jest. Natal is a mocap camera right? This was seen on PS2 with the eyetoy, ergo it is not a mind blowing MS/Xbox innovation. If you want to give accolades to full body mocap in videogaming it must go to eyetoy as the point of origin. To be sure NATAL is a significant advance on the original eyetoy, though how much of an advance on the PS3 eye I don't know.
You can guarantee that the NATAL will come out with some handheld peripherals because no matter what people will always want to have something in their hands if their onscreen persona is also holding something.
In the end I think the NATAL and PS3 eye+wand thingy will be sufficiently similar that 3rd party developers will be able to make multiplatform titles for them, which is really to the benefit of both systems.
If you get too much need for full body movement in videogaming then people are going to need to have whole rooms dedicateed to playing, rather than having the system in the living room with bits of furniture all over the place to trip you up.
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