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Metallicube on 25 December 2009
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ramses01 said:
Lord N said:
ramses01 said:
Lord N said:

As far as Natal goes, when has an add-on that was released in the middle of a generation ever had a serious impact on hardware sales? Power-glove, Eye-Toy, Sega 32X, Sega CD? It's also funny that you berate Sony for "shameless copying" of Xbox Live and then turn right around hail Natal as the second coming of Christ.

 

 


Sigh, how many times must this nonsense be repeated.  NATAL is not an ADDON.  MS considers it a console relaunch.  Also, NATAL isn't copying anything, it is reinventing the UI.

I don't give a damn what Microsoft calls it, it's an add-on. It's the same console with a different control scheme, nothing more, nothing less. Calling it a "console relaunch" is just MS trying to hype it up as something more than it is.

Reinventing the GUI? Please. What are they reinventing here, exactly?

Really, had Nintendo released the Wii-mote for the Gamecube in 2004 and called it a console relaunch, would it have made any kind of a damn difference?

 

 

You do realize that Nintendo did exactly what you state right?

Yeah, except that the Wii is a completely different console with more horsepower (despite it still being much weaker than PS3 and 360), DVDs instead of mini discs, flash memory, disc load system, virtual console, wiiware, Wi Fi, web browser, and Wii connect 24.. But no, it's exactly the same...