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Squilliam on 04 July 2009
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Lord N said:
Squilliam said:
Lord N said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again, but no controller add-on that's been released mid-generation has ever played a significant much less decisive role in a console war.

I wouldn't even count on devs to make anything noteworthy for it considering that every 360 owner won't have it. It might even increase sales of the Wii by lending credence to the Wiimote's motion-sensing abilities.

Lets see:

No console generation of recent times is expected to last as long as this current generation.

No console controller accessories barring the analogue stick up until now have been released which have had the expectation of becoming part of the default control scheme.

No console generation has sold consoles as fast as this one.

No console with a completely different interface has ever... wait it has.

Blow past precedent.

 

 

The rate at which consoles are being sold this generation and predicted length of the generation are totally irrelevant.

You've basically ignored the main points that I've made, which is that every 360 owner won't have one. By the time Natal is released, there will be atleast 35 million 360 owners who will be without it. How do you even know that Natal is expected to become part of the default control scheme considering that so little was actually shown for it? As a matter of fact, it makes more sense that it won't because if developers seriously took advantage of it, they would alienate over 30 million gamers.

Yeah, the Wii has a completely different interface, but it's been that way for the entire generation and it had highly appealing software right off the bat to support said interface, which Natal doesn't. Nintendo didn't start off with a standard control scheme and then introduce the Wiimote after it had already sold 30 million+ systems.

 

Actually there will be well over 40M Xbox 360 consoles sold without Natal. I know it will become part of the default control scheme because they would not have developed it if that wasn't the intention. However semantics and details on something which I know little about don't really matter. What does matter is this, that the Wiimote exists. Since the Wiimote exists other control schemes can develop off the knowledge and experience earnt from that interface. Without the Wiimote the Sony mote could not exist.

Since both Microsoft and Sony know that a poorly implemented and executed accessory will almost certainly fail and lose them time and money, why would they release an interface without a clear plan as to how to make it succeed? The very fact that they brought it out for the world to see indicates that they believe it could be a success.



Tease.