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bardicverse on 01 July 2009
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ironman said:
bardicverse said:

Hey O-D-C, apparently Ubisoft helped with Natal. They also are building their own motion camera for the Wii. Now that Nintendo has seen the trick MS had up its sleeve, the big N might just tweak their joint effort on the Ubi-Cam to work a bit more like Natal. The Ubi-Cam, from what E3 said, will be out in 09. If it's anywhere close to what Natal can do, it will not only have let the air out of MS' tires, it will have straight up slashed them.


Hmm so first nintendo didn't want it, then  when they saw how awsome it really was, they tried to copy it, from a compeditor, nice. I guess now nintendo is scrambling to save face. Sorry but the Ubisoft is just another Eyetoy with a decent app behind it. Unless it has 3D fullbody motion sensing in conjuction with Voice Recognition software, Nintendo 'aint lettin' the air out of anybody's tires.

Actually, the Ubi-Cam and Natal were announced on the same exact day at E3. Nintendo's conference wasn't until the following day. So, both products were in development at the same time. In other words, no Nintendo didn't rush to make a Natal-killer, as when the Ubi-Cam development started, Nintendo wasn't aware of Natal. Besides, Nintendo has a hand in the development, likely for hardware compatibility, but it's a Ubisoft product. So really, its a 3rd party product.

The Ubi-Cam does have full body motion sensing. As of right now, it's uncertain if it uses the dual lens system that Natal does. As for voice recognition, that's all software based, that can be fused into Wii Speak, if Nintendo or Ubisoft decided it was something they wanted to do.

With the Ubi-Cam coming out this year, casual markets are going to think that the Ubi-Cam is Natal, since they only recognize Wii products as the "main" system. What this will likely do is amp up the Ubi-Cam, and when Natal does release, people will not understand the difference between the Ubi-Cam and Natal. Sure, you get it, I get it, but the millions of casuals aren't going to understand the difference. Let the air-letting begin.