Anyone actually think the Natal is gonna be a success?

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RolStoppable said:

DirtyP2002 said:
The great thing about Natal is, that it is exclusive to the Xbox360 and it is one of a kind. There is nothing like this on the market. So every developer making a game for Natal is creating a Xbox360 exclusive game. People get excited about the few 3rd party exclusives this gen, what do you think Natal could do?Look, here are the developers working on one or more games for Natal:

• Namco Bandai
• Bethesda
• Activision Blizzard
• Capcom
• Disney Interactive
• Electronic Arts
• Konami (Kojima)
• MTV Games
• Sega
• Square Enix
• Ubisoft
• THQ
• (Rare)
• (Lionhead)
• (Microsoft Game Studios)

You see how big this could be? All these companies are currently working on a Xbox360 exclusive game.

Sounds a lot like the potential of the Wii. Three years later it doesn't really look like third parties have embraced the concept despite more than 50m consoles being sold, so the question is why would they fully back a 360 peripheral that starts completely from scratch? Does Microsoft have such great third party relations that they will get plenty of good games from the get go, even though it looks like Microsoft themselves don't think that they are in charge for driving the installed base with their own games (meaning that this burden falls back mainly on third party software)?

Why and how would Natal change the minds of third parties who absolutely want all systems to be similar so that they can easily port their games everywhere? What is it that puts Natal above the Wii regarding that?

 

Probably because most 3rd party companies actually profit from the 360.  From my understanding a lot of the third party stuff on the wii loses money because of it being shovel ware.  I guess we will all know with some time.