| gekkokamen said: I'm quite surprised I'm the only one who reads this news as Project Natal only lasting 5 year tops, as it literally says. Everybody here is talking about the 360's lifespan for obvious reasons. But what should be the main concern is NATAL WILL BE DEAD IN 2015! WTF? How can you introduce so-called revolutionary technology that's supposed to change the game (ala mouse for the PC, as Molyneux put it) and claim it'll only last 5 years? what?? What's their next console supposed to be based on if it comes in 2012, 2013 tops? won't the next Xbox (it will debut in less than 5 years you can bet your house* on that) use Natal technology? Microsoft is already saying NO. So games using Natal this gen won't be compatible with their next-gen console, and it'll be a totally different thing? |
What he means is that Natal 2 will be out in 5 years, not that Natal will be dead. Imaging processing is scaling on Moore's law as much as computer chips are. Within 5 years we'll be talking about 20MP cameras being common point and shoot devices. Likely a replacement to Natal would have 4-5* the accuracy and video quality.
Tease.
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