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Darth Tigris on 12 June 2009
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nitekrawler1285 said:
Darth Tigris said:

Every single Natal thread brings out the haters in force.  Seriously, if you guys think its so lame or undeserving of any hype, why do you continue to talk about it so much?  Do you feel its your personal mission in life to counter any and all positive information that comes out about this thing you personally have never used?

Anyway, this was a decent read.  Adam attempted to counter a lot of the negativity with his OWN hands on experiences and insight, but its a fools errand.  The people that vehemently dislike Natal now will dislike it even if it cured cancer.  But Adam recognized its POTENTIAL, and that's where the gaming industry needs to grow.  The next gen having even more realistic graphics just won't cut it.  Its not enough.  The experience has to be enriched, expanded and refined.  Project Natal is one of the R&D concepts that reaches out to do that.

His comment about Miyamoto was very nice.  The man is in a very difficult position.  He can't really publicly talk up this product because of his prominent role with Nintendo, but Adam caught him at a vunerable moment.  And those are typically honest moments.  Miyamoto is such an excitable gaming mind that I can only imagine that he had a ton of ideas come to his head on what he could do with such a technology.  "Wii Music could've been this and that with that tech!" or something even more revolutionary.  I can't imagine the TRUE gaming minds in the industry not appreciating the ambition of this project.

Lastly, Adam must've read comments I've made elsewhere ( ), because this hit me while watching James Cameron talk about Avatar at the Ubi conference:

I will end by saying that the first person to figure out how to successfully combine Natal technology with one of the other hot prospects I checked out last week, 3D, could be on to something really quite remarkable.

And he is sooooooooo right.  Natal tech + 3-D tech will TRULY be a major step forward in gaming immersion.  Good God can you imagine the types of experiences we could have?  Only a fanboy wouldn't get excited about that.

If PS3 and Wii fans from this site teach you nothing let it be not to hype potential. Hype what you actually have. No one knows wether or ought these titles or peripherals will live up to their potential but NATAL hasn't shown us much to get hyped about yet.  When they show us being able to controller free play more core games and a non-core game that looks fun we should get hyped. But buggy breakout and avatar spasms and limited burnout shouldn't have anyone jumping for joy.  

I appreciate people trying to move gaming forward.  I just wait for software that looks appealing before I start hyping stuff. Seeing how Microsoft hasn't ever relased any software that i'm going gaga for(except maybe I.E. and Word in their early days) please forgive me for being a "naysayer".  

If you wanna discuss how a $400-500 laptop with a NATAL webcam could put apple out of business then i'd be there with you.  Touch, and mothion and voice work great for media organization...very few have sold me on the games including them though. 

So we shouldn't get excited about any new technology and its potential?  That doesn't sound like a very fun gaming community to me ...