Avinash_Tyagi said:
Legend11 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Here's the thing Legend, the average consumer isn't going to buy Natal, the price isn't going to be in their range, unless MS is willing to lose billions by selling it at a loss, the camera pricing is estimated at $200, couple with an updated Xbox and you are looking at a 400 dollar system, well out of the price range of the average consumer, only gamers will be willing to plunk down that cash, so it is relevant, the Wii fit crowd isn't going to buy NATAL unless its sold at a massive loss |
Here's the thing Avinash_Tyagi, you have no idea what the price of it is going to be. You have no idea what the price of the Xbox 360 will be when it launches or even if there will be a special SKU with it. That's the problem, you just have no idea and yet you're stating things like they're facts.
As for Steven Spielberg I want to ask you, do you think it would have been better for Microsoft to have gone with Will Wright or Richard Garriot instead? Do you think it would have gotten as many headlines or had as much weight with the mass casual audience and non-gamers? Do you think that when Oprah was showing Wii Fit that her credibility with the gaming industry mattered?
As for what the Wii Fit crowd is going to buy, how do you know what they're going to buy in the future? Seriously unless you show me some kind of poll or whatever that backs you up I'm going to say you're just pulling that out of your ass. From my perspective and I'm not stating this as fact but as an observation, the fitness industry is so big because people tend to continue buying new products every year. I've yet to see someone buy an Ab Roller for instance and then never buy another piece of fitness equipment again.
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For the demographic that will probably buy NATAL, yes, seriously, Speilberg carries little wieght in gaming for the core, we know that people won't buy it at that price, because the Wii will be a lot cheaper. And you're right I don't know for sure, but i'm basing it on estimates, and the estimates place it around $400 for a full package
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We don't know the price but what we do know is that Microsoft is aiming this at a broad audience. For that audience it makes no sense to have someone that most of them never heard of talk about how excited they are over the technology rather than Steven Spielberg. I also don't understand him accusing Spielberg of lying. What was the point of that? To me it just comes off as rabid hate being justified with nonsense.
I have a suspicion that when it comes to the HD consoles and Microsoft in general that no matter what they do Malstrom will criticize it. If they had simply taken the easy route and produced a Wii Remote knock off he would have bashed them for that. I think he has a bias and it's glaringly on display by the fact that he has praised Nintendo for disruption and is now bashing Microsoft to hell for attempting it.
