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thekitchensink said:
@OP: I think that if the technology was already available AND simple to make, Microsoft would have at least given us a tentative launch period, which they didn't. The fact that they still expect it to take quite a while makes me think it's much more advanced than a camera that Sony had a couple of years ago. Also, you can't forget the key differentiator that the Natal has a microphone as well (does the PSEye?)


Yes.


Edit:

I screwed up. Here you go -

Microphone

The PlayStation Eye features a built-in four-capsule[1] microphone array, with which the PlayStation 3 can employ[10] technologies for multi-directional voice location tracking, echo cancellation, and background noise suppression. This allows the peripheral to be used for speech recognition and audio chat in noisy environments without the use of a headset.[1] The PlayStation Eye microphone array operates with each channel processing 16-bit samples at a sampling rate of 48 kilohertz, and a signal-to-noise ratio of 90 decibels.[1]




4 ≈ One