Buttons are needed. Ill always want them.

have to wait and see and actually play natal first....i would think that you need at least some buttons, but I'll wait to try it to make a final judgment

I agree. Natal looks like the EyeToy to me, and the EyeToy was never appealing to me.

Milo is the most attractive software for Natal, but even that game could be pulled off on the PS3, and since it's a Peter Molyneux game I bet it's not even going to be that good.

I enjoyed Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, and Kirby Canvas Curse WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much to agree with this.

Nah. I'm a real gamer, and I don't need buttons to enjoy a game. Some of my earliest and most favourite games, like Cribbage, Chess, or D&D don't use buttons at all.

Buttons are old tech. The need for them in gaming will diminish as the years progress. In 100 years, assuming we're still a species, there will be no buttons for gaming. Any new significantly advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.

I agree. I'm not so much a gamer as I am a huge fan of pushing buttons.

Great post, epic win. We don't need buttons to interact with physical games, why do we need them to interact with virtual games? Well, truth is, we don't NEED them, and they aren't the only tech we have that is perfectly accurate. Think of the mouse, a far more accurate and precise interactive tool, than a button. No, I think as technology progresses, we'll see less and less buttons. No need for a keyboard either, as our apps will actually record and translate our words and phrases into documents or forms, and we will interact with our devices through a touch or virual interface, instead of pressing buttons. What if our hands were mice, and the device projected an enviromnent in which to navigate with our mice hands.....so futuristic.....oh wait, that's what Natal does...

That was so funny, I just about  shit. Good post sir. Seconded.

Well it's not so much about the buttons. Lots of games right now currently work using very few buttons. What it's about is not having a physical medium connecting you to the action happening in the screen. It's like air guitar versus Guitar Hero. None are an accurate representation of playing a real guitar, but feeling wise you get more out of the guitar hero game. Or even the Wii Music representation of guitar because you have something you are holding on to. You don't guitar with nothing.

That's been my main worry so far about Natal is I'm just not sure how much I'll like playing without that physical medium or any camera based thing we'll see in the future. But I'm willing to try and see if I change my mind on it. I was skeptical about Wii at first till I tried it so I'll keep an open mind.