Project Natal wins the Popular Science Home Entertainment Grand Award

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Azelover said:

DirtyP2002 said:

damndl0ser said:

Smidlee said:

It's seems anyone who is skeptical about Natal and is not taken in by it's hyped must be X360 haters/ Sony fanboys. I'm like bobobologna I'm skeptical how useful Natal will actually be. Like someone testing out Burnout with Natal said while Natal works he still rather play with a controller.
Even with head tracking for GT5 there will be some gamers who, after the novelty wears off, would rather race without head tracking. Head tracking with race games isn't really necessary unlike flight sims.

Simple answer to this is no.  But the ones who continually try and say its just a PS Eye Toy or continually do the FUD/miss information stuff probably are.

true story. I do not get this hate. Why can't we just wait and see what Natal will be like? No that would be too easy. We just can agree it sucks, will be overpriced and we have had something like this before...

In a way that's a reaction to the premature optimism around it as well as BS that people with their minds right can see straight through.

In many ways we've been predictively programmed to accept this technology, movies like Minority Report and stuff. You look at it and you go "ha! my friend! I've seen you before!" subconsciously, they don't even realize it. But not everybody has been brought up on movies, series and advertising like that, or even the idea of it being interesting. So they look at your enthusiasm and genuinely don't get it, because in a real world everybody SHOULD be a little skeptical of what was presented there.

However a circle has been formed by the people who had been imagining this technology for a long time, and even other people who weren't part of that dream got sucked in with the help of the media. And the ones who don't really subscribe to those tastes, are in a more real worldly state of skepticism. It's not hate, really. Their skepticism is being a little exacerbated by your blind faith in the technology, which they can see you doing, and so they overcompensate their points based on your unjustified optimism that has no real basis or practical evidence for yet.

Who exactly is being overly optimistic?  I have doubts about this tech and every other tech that is coming out.  I don't think anyone here is "blindly" optimistic when it comes to the natal.  But that doesn't mean I can't be happy that someone is trying to bring the future to us, NOW!  The people who are most optimistic are the ones with actual hands on time with the device (PopScience).  So if anything it should reinforce our hopes and dreams for Natal.  So I still don't see why the hate flows so much.   The only thing that can be said about it is this, some bias supporters think it will turn the tides in this console war and they are desperate for it to fail.  And you can see this by their posts. 

This thread is actually very tame when it comes to the natal hate.  But if you do a little digging around on these here forums you will see what some of us are talking about.