Natal lag issues will hurt game development

[Malachi]

JaggedSac said:

NJ5 said:

richardhutnik said:

CommonMan said:
I don't care, I'm still buying it. I will control my dashboard like Minority Report, play some awesome RTS on a console finally, maybe they'll update the Magic: The Gathering game to work with your own cards too, so many awesome applications if only it's done right! Oh and please port Myst to the Xbox 360 for Natal, that would be amazing!

I suggest you may want to wait on it, if you are expecting RTS to suddenly show up.  I had learned my lesson with the DS.  I bought it hoping I would get Punch Out and also RTS on it, and they didn't show up.  I thought the PSP also would have mouse support, and do RTS portably also, but it didn't do that either.  One should always wait to see how things actually work, before being a lock to spend money on them.

True... plus, MS hasn't shown any pointer functionality with Natal, so RTS might not even work (at least not with pointing if that's what you guys were thinking).

 

It is easy to have a pointer with Natal.  Do you recall the link that I gave you to the TVs that have similar functionality as Natal?  The guy was typing on a virtual keyboard onscreen.  It will be quite simple to do that with Natal.  I imagine the resolution available to Natal would be at least the same or greater than what was shown there as well.

Only a pointer isn't enough though, you need the "click" part of the point and click interface for RTS. Just look at the DS, richardhutnik complain the lack of RTS on it, but I played one on it and let me tell you that without that second part of the interface the experience is an extremely frustating one. So much so that I hope the next DS upgrade or DS2 add a button on the stylus connected by wifi or wheteever to the console with a wacth batteries for power. Maybe they can find a way to implement it, the interface is much more versatile then a touch screen afterall but ill wait to see it before announcing victory.