M$ packing Natal with ALL new consoles?

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Patchter thinks it will be $50!

It's comments like this that I envy Patcher's job. He is very well paid for making not well researched comments! Mr. Patcher justified his $50 price guess by assuming that Naltal has just "a camera". I am not a hardware expert but it is common sense that the 3D camera used in Natal is not the same thing as the one that captures the facial detail. Just looking at this he should realize that Natal requires at least two cameras, maybe even three.

Then he foregets that Natal requires a pretty powerful processor in addtion to some wicked algorithms to process all the standard and 3D skeleton images. And that's not counting the simultatnous voice recognition processing of several people.

Also, Natal is much more advanced then what Nintendo and Sony is doing with their new controlers. If MS prices it lower, they risk the public percetion that Natal is not as advanced.

So looking at these factors, Natal itself, when it launhes, should be no less then $150.
Now MS may have cost of the elite down to $200 by that time. If that is the case, a Natal package should be no less then $350. This is regardless of what Sony and Nintendo will be selling at. As MS has stated, this is going to be like launching a new system.

And a new system has the advantage of setting its own price point. It is about what value the public will accept Natal.