Iwata 'TURNED down Natal tech' back in 2007 --Good decision or not? (rumor)

[disolitude]

saicho said:

disolitude said:
LOL - Couldn't sell it at Nintendo price point.

Iwata - "Its a good tech but we can't make gazillion dolalrs off the hardware so we passed on it...Oh and yeah latency issue, miyamotto said something about it and other stuff."

give Iwata some credit. At least he didn't take the tech and charge the customers at a price that's much price than the usual Nintendo price.

I obviously don't know what happened behind closed doors at Nintendo with this emeting. Maybe Iwata did the right thing, maybe he didn't... I dont' know what kind of price they are talking about.

Now since Microsoft said that Natal is 50% hardware, 50% software, I think its foolish for Iwata to say that they passed on that technology. They passed on the hardware part, but who knows what kind of software they would use to get this tech up and running.

I doubt we'd see voice reckognition for one, if Nintendo used Natal.