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thismeintiel on 29 March 2010
Squilliam said:

Neither Sony nor Nintendo have the same level of investment and pure research that Microsoft has in this field. What they saw of the physical technology behind Natal isn't actually the Natal that Microsoft was developing. They bought 3DV for the technology, patents and some software but they added it to work which was already underway in their research and development labs. Microsofts technology here for 3D gesture recognition is ahead of anything in the academic or comercial fields. What Sony says about Natal is pretty irrelevant they would trash talk it still if it was about the best interface ever developed.

Seriously, as others have said, where's the trash talk at all in these statments?  The guy actually said he loved the 3-D camera tech, just that it didn't add much to what they were already doing and didn't allow them to do some things they were looking into.  So where's the trash talk?



 

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Squilliam on 29 March 2010
thismeintiel said:

Seriously, as others have said, where's the trash talk at all in these statments?  The guy actually said he loved the 3-D camera tech, just that it didn't add much to what they were already doing and didn't allow them to do some things they were looking into.  So where's the trash talk?

Sony has no credibility to talk about competitor products. All they have ever done is trash talk the competition.



Tease.

C_Hollomon on 29 March 2010

Come on guys lets not fight and make things up like Sony is trash talking about Natal when they wasn't. Lets hope both Sony and MS have success with they motion devices and bring more great games.



binary solo on 29 March 2010

Interesting that Sony and Ninty only looked at it for the gaming potential, it seems, whereas MS saw its potential in much more than gaming. So was willing to invest in the tech because of the possibility of an application well beyond the gaming console. It helps that it's got a virtual monopoly on PS OSs to it is an easy thing to put Natal drivers into PCs and get all sorts of potential that way.

If you wanted to be uncharitable you could say Sony and Ninty were short sighted. But a less judgemental assessment is to say that Ninty and Sony were narrowly focussed.

Just wait, the PS Eye 3.0 will be a binocular camera using some tech that isn't a patent held by MS, and Ninty will put camera functionality into a home console system in the future too.

I do think MS divorced itself from a device in the hand motion control before the mass market is truly ready for it. So without necessarily implementing a handheld device with the same features as a Wiimote or Move there could be a one handed device with buttons and analog stick introduced for Natal at some point.



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C_Hollomon on 29 March 2010
Squilliam said:
thismeintiel said:

Seriously, as others have said, where's the trash talk at all in these statments?  The guy actually said he loved the 3-D camera tech, just that it didn't add much to what they were already doing and didn't allow them to do some things they were looking into.  So where's the trash talk?

Sony has no credibility to talk about competitor products. All they have ever done is trash talk the competition.


All companies trash talk each other.  Why you getting mad at Sony when they all do it? 



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Severance on 29 March 2010



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SpartanFX on 29 March 2010

WTF????how was this trash talking???why do you people love to make up stuff??

@squilliam

I would appreciate it if u don't derail every single PS topic.

@any mod

why hasn't he been banned yet,,,,he has derailed 3 sony threads just today.totally off topic and provoking comments is what he has been doing.



 

 

 

Ping_ii on 29 March 2010

I dont see no trash talking.....

jeez we alrdy have natal fanboys and the thing aint even released yet.



pizzahut451 on 29 March 2010
richardhutnik said:
xxmob said:
pslee said:
natal will fail

hmm ok.... why do you think it will fail

Because he has everything Playstation, and nothing else in his avatar?

or maybe, just maybe he REALLY believes Natal will fail???Not because hes a PS fanboy but because he really thinks so???

 

Nah, that cant be, right?



pizzahut451 on 29 March 2010
Squilliam said:
thismeintiel said:

Seriously, as others have said, where's the trash talk at all in these statments?  The guy actually said he loved the 3-D camera tech, just that it didn't add much to what they were already doing and didn't allow them to do some things they were looking into.  So where's the trash talk?

Sony has no credibility to talk about competitor products. All they have ever done is trash talk the competition.

and MS and nintendo never did that