At this stage, would you buy into Natal?

[jarrod]

supercat said:

jarrod said:

supercat said:
Natal will be a hyped up Eyetoy, and (probably) fail within a year or two. Any Natal exclusive games will probably only be offered by XBL anyway.

No, downloadables is Sony's plan for Gem.  Microsoft's putting their priority on retail releases.

Most retail games will cost $59.99 b/c of distribution, packaging, marketing, required for retail games.  I dont think that people will pay $59.99 for a casual.  Or, they could just charge $30 for a decent casual on XBL, and not make retailers risk buying into something that might take a while to get up to speed.   

 

The choice in this decision is obvious.

Most casuals don't buy games online.  Yet they didn't seem to mind paying $90 for Wii Fit en masse.

For the market they want, Microsoft's definitely making the smarter choice.