Jack Tretton Takes Aim at Natal.

[Squilliam]

chaospluto said:

Squilliam said:

I can't really see how complaints its an Eyetoy clone are even justified as the Sony Eyetoy wasn't a big enough success to be considered inspiration. I doubt that anyone is going to say that due to the Eyetoys 'massive' success Microsoft rushed their engineers to complete a copy. In reality the Natal interface is closer to a Wiimote clone than it could ever be an Eyetoy clone.

I can understand anyone having hurt feelings or whatever, but its pretty stupid to draw a link between the Eyetoy and the Natal interface in the same fashion that you wouldn't draw a connection between Microsofts failed tablet PC format and the iPad. Im not going to rush around saying the iPad is a tablet PC clone when the tablet PC never did anything and barely sold nor did it meet the requirements of the market.

Wait...So...

PS Move has a similar design to Wiimote and essentially does the same thing as Wiimote with added features, it's a copy because the Wii was a huge success?

But...

Natal does essentially the same thing as the EyeToy with added features.  Though it's not a copy at all, due to the fact that the EyeToy wasn't a huge success?

How the hell does that make any sense at all.  Just because Wii was a success and EyeToy wasn't doesn't nullify Natal being any less of a copy to the EyeToy as PS Move is a copy to the Wiimote.  Interface has NOTHING to do with how they work, it's all about the hardware.

Talk about biased.

Pretty simple really. Theres nothing in how the Eyetoy was recieved nor pushed which you can say 'obviously another company will want to make an identical clone or similar'. Sony barely pushed it and cameras are pretty common so you can't even say that had the Eyetoy not existed the Natal interface would not have existed. However you can say if the Wiimote never existed its unlikely that the Move would exist in its present form because the Wiimote form-factor and interface is unique and before the Wiimote nothing of the like existed. So therefore its pretty obvious that Sony copied Nintendo.