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maykissthebride on 03 November 2009
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Arm said:
maykissthebride said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Natal and the PS3 Wiimote pose no threat to Nintendo and Nintendo doesn't need to do anything about them.

Wrong.

You gotta understand that regular people bought the wii for motion controls.

I have to tell this once more: Regular people dont want to play Muramasa.

They want motion controls, they want to show it to the neighbours.

 

When the wii exploded, it was because of Wii Sports, the first showcase of motion controls. People were amazed. 

 

Now can you imagine what a new Xbox360 SKU, all Natal-oriented, with a competitive price can do with this market.

It will destroy the wii.

And lead this generation to a 7 to 10 years cycle

 

The only chance nintendo have is to release a barrage of excelent software that uses the Wii Motion Plus to the max.

Making clear that the natal technology, the future, its here already.

Unfortunally, nintendo aint showing any signs that is (really) worried about that. So, next year we will see another profit dive for nintendo.

Sad but you do have a point,

 

I have a feeling that Natal will be MS ace, it's going to be on tv shows ( people love to watch others make an a$$ of them self) and Natal will be no different. The new X360 Sku with natal bundle and an aggressive price point will sell this.

 

Sony and the magic wand, well if this is an add on not packaged with the console then I don't see any real threat. Packaged with one and a game/demo then I can see the advertisements of the sort:

 

PS3

BluRay player

HD gaming system

Motion control ala wii

free online service

Does everything the others do and better!

 

 

 

Yeah, im not happy about it either.

Even with all recent mistakes, Nintendo still the only game company (and the only company) that has a place in my heart (ugg, so gay - cmon, people, cut me some slack, we all grew up with nintendo)

 

And i agree with you: cant see the PS3 as a real threat> People will look at it and say "eh, they trying to copy nintendo now"

 

But Natal´s technology is disruptive enough to warrant a purchase from an army of early adopters...

who will spread the word, show it to the neighbours, generate enough buzz to give it a spot on tv shows, etc etc.

 

But this will only happen if Natal shows up a) Fully funcitional, no glitches, and  b) with good bundled software.

Knowing microsoft and its agressive take on the industy, we can take these two points as a sure shot.