| Ssliasil said: IGN and many other sites and youtube videos have proven that most if not all f Microsofts Natal videos were Scripted and Fake, particularly Milo, what are your thoughts on it? Do you think it was just a desperation move by Microsoft to contend with Sony's Camera-Mote concept, and put together last minute, or whatever? Thoughts! Please! |
Flamebait deserves flames.
But I'll try to be civil.
Anyway, couple of things:
1) Actually nothing was proven in terms of Natal being faked. Burnout Worked according to IGN and Milo reacted well BUT it as obvious to the IGN guy that it was in early development because it didn't react to everything (which is understandable or else they would have launched the product at E3 as opposed to announcing it). Also, given how well Natal worked on screen with the now infamous flailing limbs girl, I would say that it was not proven to be fake.
2) Desperation move? I don't think so. Regardless of whether you believe Natal is fake or not, clearly the presentation itself was much more polished than Sony's. If anything MS was bringing it to E3 to take on Nintendo, Sony are clearly in 3rd with the PS3, the momentum they've accumulated this year has not translated to a massive rise in sales. MS were mainly after Nintendo at this E3. I don't mean to bad mouth sony here but judging by the visual quality, it had looked as though they only recently got the technology to work and judging by the presenters it doesn't look they had a large amount of time to devise a proper presentation format (of as high quality as the rest of their conference). Sony made a point to show it in real time, they said it themselves. Perhaps they noticed the reaction to MS's video's of Natal and knew they would receive the same reception if they did it. They benefitted because people knows it actually works, they lost out because people found out how far behind they are from getting a product on the market to compete with Nintendo.
3) I think it was a desperation move by both Sony and MS to contend with Nintendo's Wii-mote product, except that MS's looked like theirs was more polished (whether you believe Natal to work or not).
I think Sony and MS should do us all a favour and not have good press conferences, given the uprising of Fanboys in forums because of it (at least Nintendo fanboys understand that all this momentum could disappear in a weeks time, so they don't feel the need to let everyone know every good thing Nintendo have done). Any benefits they get from it isn't worth the hassle.
