Natal will not fail and there are no enough excuses for passing such technology.

It's the software I think that is the daunting part of this stuff

I think Natal and Move may well end up being millstones around their respective companies necks.

That's a possiblity for sure, but I think Natal has a good chance of pulling in more people because it's what people though they would be doing when they bought the Wii... if Microsoft marketing force hits this hard in the right places and has the right peices of software... Sony has a good chance of pulling in some of the hard core Wii owners though it may get labled as Wii-envy

Amen brother.

Hey look, a "Natal is crap thread"! What a novel idea!

Both their reasons were pretty good, even if the decisions were bad for consumers.

Nintendo could and has claimed that cartridge based technology was superior due to faster loading times, when the reality was that sticking to cartridge formats was essentially a measure to prevent widespread piracy. To consumers, cartridge based games meant less storage space for games (loved those N64 textures) for more money.

SCE's decision to leave out vibration was even simpler; they were already being sued by the patent holder of the technology.

Nintendo and SCE took a pass on 3DV because it was essentially redundant technology for gaming applications. Both already had their own motion based technology in the R&D pipeline.

MS simply bought it to avoid legal conflict as 3DV tech most closely mirrored their own. Even if developed independently, whoever holds the patent, has the legal rights to the tech. So, well calculated move by MS, with the only drawback being that 3DV tech will in all likelyhood be mothballed. Maybe used to improve upon MS own R&D efforts at best.

Stereoscopic cameras are very useful for 3D applications though. It would be nice to see consumers have an inexpensive and accessible means to create stereoscopic video/content themselves.

nintendo said they would be ashamed to do what sony and MS are doing now,(on whole motion controlls thing) even though Natal and Move are not copies. They also said RPG gamers are depressed people who sit in dark rooms and play slow games.

^^just to name a few nintendo quotes

presently we have seen nothing concrete, in terms of how much Natal can deliver. Till E3 come all we could do now is speculate.

Right now after what is shown by what the MOVE can do, it shows potential of what it can deliver. its a big question now whether natal can produce at least half of what MOVE could do, now that would be some thing

Has a hell of a better chance than Natal.