Natal and Arc to be flooded with shovelware?

[steverhcp02]

Strategyking92 said:

steverhcp02 said:

Strategyking92 said:
Mostly family titles.. But the Sony and MS screening process isn't completely laughable as nintendo's is.

True, but thats not the main problem with the reasoning for "shovelware" being put on the wii.

Its hard to button map and theres just not really a good reason to see Natal or Arc used in games like assassins creed or bioshock......no way Arc would work taking down 2 big daddies at once on expert or whatever th ehighest difficulty is.

I expect Natal to be more successful than Arc simply because Arc is far too similar IE: exactly like the wii. That demographic already made their decision....the only way it helps sony is convincing families to get a BD player, and their teens want a PS3 but mom wants EA fitness so they choose the PS3 over Wii....other than that, no one happy with the Wii is going to see Arc as anything but identicle.

IMO MSFT needs to drop this whole "controllerless gaming" with Natal, it needs to be pushed as being used in conjunction with the controller, then it can be implemented in intrigueing ways to complement the controller, if they go gung-ho, which they seem to be doing, with no controller then its shovelware all the way due to lack of control depth and button mapping.

Well that probably fake "kownage" pack sony is probably not making had me thinking:

Why couldn't MS make a cheap holdable controller for natal as well? It wouldn't need motion tracking, just the buttons for games since natal would handle the tracking. MS could also optimise the controller to working overly good with natal, since they could do whatever they wanted to do with it.

 

I think Natal will be a success because of the media blitz and incoming Microsoft advertising storm. the wand will not because THE controller for the ps3, but I could see it doing Eye Toy success again (relative to the ps3).

I couldnt agree more. They truly have to do this, and then Natal is finally something in the right direction. As it stands now i dont think anyone can fathom how its going to translate, but id still like to see conventional 360 controller and Natal integration to get me interested. As it stands, watching the burnout demo.....im going to have to move my coffee table and ignore everything that makes burnout great, i wont crash billboard, do stunts or even probably complete any race successfully due to lack of finite control.

But as of now, it seems theyre betting the house on controllerless marketing, so we will see.