greenmedic88 said:
It's not as though they count on charging twice as much for this as the Wii (which is unlikely to be a cent over $200 by next year) because they want to market it as being "over twice as advanced" as Wii motion controls. This is largely why the whole 1TB Xbox 360 SKU is really wishful thinking. When the drives can be sourced for under $100, sure it's viable, but as of now they cost $250. Considering how slow MS was to upgrade the original 20GB standard drive to 60GB, and have yet to upgrade the 120GB HDD, MS has yet to demonstrate the ability to alter SKU packages at the same speed of storage expansion availability. Wait and see. I still predict that the Natal camera itself will retail for about $50. $60 at the most. The camera itself is simply two low res CCD based cameras (each a sub $10 part) and an IR light source emitter (read: IR LED bulbs like those in the Wii sensor bar, costing pennies). The hardware will not be expensive to manufacture. Natal itself is really in the software that utilizes the camera. |
Excellent post.
