| numonex said: American and UK sales of Natal and new XBox 360 Arcades will be huge this year with Natal. Consumers always want the latest and greatest new product on the market. Natal could revolutionise the way games are played even further. No remote is needed, Natal relies on human movement and your voice. Be interesting to see which games take full advantage of this new technology. Natal will definitely be included in the new XBox if it is successful. Just like XBox Live was implemented last generation and started this generation as standard with XBox 360 from day one. |
The problem is that Natal is just a peripheral. There will be a lot of games which support it but very few of them will actually require it (practically all of them made by MS during first year). And most games will work better without Natal even if they support it (just like with PS3 games supporting sixaxis). For example Fable 3 will probably only use Natal with 1-2 features and you can play it just as well without it and Halo: Reach most likely won't support Natal at all. Most 360 owners don't ever need to buy Natal because only very few games will ever require it because most developers want to sell games to everyone. Even to them who don't have Natal. Just think about Balance Board. Only Nintendo supports BB exclusively, even skating and snowboarding games on Wii don't require BB. Even current install base of BB is not enough according to third-party developers.
To be huge, Natal requires huge games. People buy controller for games, without good games controller won't sell much. Games sells controllers, controller without games is nothing in the eyes of consumer. Even many Wii consoles were bought for Wii Sports, not wiimote as many believe. Heck, without Wii Sports Wii could have been total failure.
