Bach: '70% or 80%' of Worldwide publishers working on Natal games

[DirtyP2002]

HappySqurriel said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Gh0st4lifE said:
That means there should be at least 20 natal-compatible games being currently designed. Doesn't seem like much to me, considering some of these games will only offer natal-controls as an option.

UbiSoft alone is working on 20 Natal games.

Lionhead two games, Milo & Kate + Fable III

Rare at least 3 games

EA at least 5 games...

I guess there will be 100 Natal games end of 2011.

Depends upon how you count though ...

As I implied on an earlier post, you can get a very high game count (or a high number of publishers supporting you) without any of these games being particularly meaningful support. Between ports of Wii and Eyetoy games, low budget downloadable games, and tacked-on alternate control schemes for XBox 360 games in production most publishers can claim to be releasing dozens of Natal games without supporting it enough to green light a single moderate budget game.

You might think I’m being pessimistic, but I can almost guarantee that Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy will be one of Ubisoft’s Natal games; and it will probably not be the only direct port, most of which will receive no major graphical or feature upgrades from the Wii version. Much like the Wii, for Natal to really be impressive you need games designed from the ground up to demonstrate why Natal is an improvement; if most of the content is ports from other systems or alternative control-schemes for XBox 360 games this won’t happen.

I think a lot of people are really upset that there is nothing that might indicate a bad Natal release.

Seriously, right now, I can't think of anything that could have been better for a successful release of Natal. Media is going crazy, developers are supporting it big time, MS will advertise this like a launch of a new console, it will be implemented in the biggest WRPG on the markest (Fable)...

Still a lot of people try to find anything bad about it. Your post is one of them. The major support of 3rd party publishers might not be that great, because the quality might suffer. Your example is the Wii... We all know how bad the sales of the Wii were... Wait...