Is NATAL really any different than play station eye ?

[jneul]

slowmo said:

jneul said:
haha nice vid Goodfella, that really proves natal really is just nicking ideas from eyetoy, plus it does have a lag on natal, the motion control ideas for the wand look miles better than this imo.

So what else is a problem given your latest news having seen it first hand, oops you haven't so yet more anecdotal evidence.  If you mean the motion control ideas for the wand shown at E3 then you're really grasping because I didn't see anything to get me excited yet, and funnily enough neither did the vast amount of professional journalists there either.

Heres a question for you all dismissing Natal, if it is just the same as eyetoy why haven't Sony come out branding it as such?  The simple answer is they know exactly what the device is and know they cannot match it with just the eyetoy.  The fact Natal has the onboard processor dedicated for the task of calculating the motion capture and voice recognition alone makes a huge boost given there is no drain on the host consoles processing power.  Look at the video Goodfella posted again and see how much the PS2 is struggling just to run such a simple "game".  That is without going into the details of the IR camera for depth perception or the facial expression recognition software either.

Will Natal be a success, the answer to that question is still unlikely until we see the software that will be released but there is no doubt its a huge increase in technology over the PSEye.

well yeah what do you expect the technology was not as good back then, but more or less it is the same thing, but improved on natal of course. natal is going to struggle without an input device other than yourself as discovered by Sony, M$ are about 8 years behind Sony and Nintendo, unless they change it of course.

did anyone ever try the party games for eyetoy back on the ps2, well if you did you know what i am going on about, motion control needs more than just body movement alone for it to work with all kinds of games.

finally i agree with the whole presentation of sony wand seemed a bit rushed, but it did show true 1:1 control without any lag. maybe people are not as hyped because Sony are not hyping it as much as MS??