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d21lewis said:
I remember the folks at Nintendo saying that we would say "Wow!" when we saw the Wii's graphics. Is this a similar boast?

OMFG LMAO



 

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"We're a team that makes big bets"

That is true, MS does indeed make big bets. I think the last one to really pay off for them was the double down of Windows and Office in the mid 80s. Since that their track record including Windows CE/mobile, Microsoft Surface, the Zune (currently languishing behind about 40 versions of the ipod and even a few Sandisk players), tablets based on Windows, The "sphere" whatever that was going to be and a dozen other overreach boondoggles makes me more then a little pessimistic.

There have been so many game changers announced that didn't change much of anything over the last 25 years from MS I have a hard time keeping track of them. 30 years of game changing and the only thing making real money for them remains Office and Windows from back in the 80s.

It isn't just that I'm down on MS, I hated the eyetoy too. It was supposed to be revolutionary in most of the same ways. Pretty flat out, playing without a controller kind of sucks and limits games to mainly mini game collections or lame gimmicks. I don't want to crawl around on my belly to play metal gear, I don't think I could get a flaming spin kick off to win in mortal kombat, I already find Rock Band fake enough without playing air guitar and I really don't want to use my finger as a gun.

Sony and Nintendo looked at the eyetoy and similar controllerless solutions, realized the limitations, and worked around it with motion controllers. Microsoft apparently looked at the eye toy and saw the next big thing.

As to both the move and Natal though, when's the last time an expensive add on peripheral did well? Sega CD, Powerglove, Nintendo track mat, add on PS2 hard drive....if its not in the box when you buy it its almost impossible to add new things after the fact. The Wii Fit is more or less the only exception to that rule I can think of, so well played to Nintendo on that one.




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I'm really curious about Natal, but I am skeptical. I can see some balance board-type games working on it, but without the precision that is available by actually, you know, standing on the device.
As far as other games go, I am dying to know what they have up their sleeves. I doubt they would have put the number of years that they've put into it only to half-ass it with shoddy software, but who knows?
Right now it's a tie for me between this and the Vitality Sensor for the, 'just how exactly is this going to translate into games?' crown.



Coming from anyone's PR, be it Sony, Wii, or Microprofit, when I see the "an experience that all people be it young, old, male or female can enjoy" I can blindly put the "bullshit" tag right away.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

I really doubt it.



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I'm exited to know I can browse the dashboard by moving my hand up, down, left or right by just doing small hand gestures..

Playing with Milo will be the next big thing for me, that would raise gameplay and interaction to a whole new level..

Cant wait to know what other surprises Microsoft have up their sleeves for E3..

I think this year will be huge for the XBOX team.



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Kama Sutra Natal Games. That'd be disruptive.



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AbbathTheGrim said:

Coming from anyone's PR, be it Sony, Wii, or Microprofit, when I see the "an experience that all people be it young, old, male or female can enjoy" I can blindly put the "bullshit" tag right away.

Wii is not a company name.



What i'd like to see is for it to simulate multitouch of sort.
Even a pointer simulating your finger pointing is still good.

Incorporating it into the entertainment center and make it work as a remote (finger pointing) and so on instead of only use for games would be great



Mvp4eVa said:

I'm exited to know I can browse the dashboard by moving my hand up, down, left or right by just doing small hand gestures..

Playing with Milo will be the next big thing for me, that would raise gameplay and interaction to a whole new level..

Cant wait to know what other surprises Microsoft have up their sleeves for E3..

I think this year will be huge for the XBOX team.

Has Milo been confirmed beyond the concept-video stage?



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’