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priteshmodi on 07 December 2009
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STEKSTAV said:
priteshmodi said:
STEKSTAV said:
I get the feeling that Natal is to Wii what every touchphone is to the iPhone. It might sell, but in peoples minds the Wii/iPhone did it first and will forever be concidered the product to pick up if you like that sort of thing. The offsprings will bring some new cool features to freshen up the concept, but the core of the product will forever be with Wii/iPhone.

Except that the iPhone wasn't the first full touchscreen phone on the market. The LG Prada was actually out before it with full touch screen capability.

That might be, but the iPhone made it mainstream and made the touch screen featyre a part of their identity. Much like the Wii, that was my point.

I know what you meant. I just wanted to be difficult .

I do agree that the Wii will still retain much mindshare in consumers but the Wand and Natal are still capable of expanding the market further than what it is now. For example, PS3's are primarily meant as multimedia and gaming systems but are in major use in research for their calculative performance. Natal (or the Wand) could be used in a wide variety of research projects as well as integrated into many other electronic devices like personal computers, TV's (saving favourites and bookmarking tv channels as well as turning on, automatic dimming if you fall asleep all based on settings personalized to an individual, surveillance, etc.). There really are a great number of possibilities. 

In addition things like the iPhone are mainstream but there is still a huge market outside of it. No single phone is as successful as a the iPhone in terms of touch screen but iPhone isn't absolutely dominating in the big picture when all the shares of other touch-phones are considered.

I'm currently in the stages of ideas and planning of a big design project for my final university project and I've considered what could be done with technology like Natal. Unfortunately it's coming out 4-8 months too late for me to use it but the ideas are still there.

Also I sound like I'm badmouthing iPhone or talking it down. I'm not - In fact I'm currently employed as an iPhone application/game developer. It's a great platform but it just isn't for me.