justinian said:
Squilliam said:
Its all about the voice recognition and gesture recognition software and Microsoft are ahead of the game for gesture recognition and one behind the best in voice recognition as far as im aware. Natal is the fruits of an unrelated research and development program for a PC interface which was ongoing since before this console generation even started. So what they brought to the table when considering whether or not the technology was viable was completely different to Sony and Nintendo who opted for more a hardware based solution. Microsoft has plenty of innovative technology they have developed but so far they failed to find good applications for it, and Natal is one such good application.
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Your last post made more sense - and I agree. Sony (and Nintendo) opted to go a different way, not because Sony didn't have the resources to complete or improve on the project.
The only point you made that I would question is about MS already having this technology, that made buying 3DV a bit pointless. And with other companies springing up all over the place with the technology it surely was not to keep it away from Sony or Nintendo.
But generally I agree.
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Patent protection... Thats the reason why the bought those companies and they said so themselves. So they couldn't be sued and so they could sue anyone who infringed on their technology.
