Nintendo should preemptively attack Microsoft by releasing a motion camera of their own for the Wii. Natal can potentially be the next big thing and siphon many Wii customers away. By having similar technology on the Wii customers will have no incentive to buy Natal no matter how much Microsoft advertises it. And if the same tech was on the Wii many Natal titles would be ported to the Wii making Natal lose the novelty appeal and thus losing a lot of sales.

Yes, I know Nintendo worked with Ubisoft to release an exercise game using motion cam tech but from the reviews I've read it was badly implemented.

The Wii Eye doesn't have to be as high tech as Natal because most casual gamers won't even know or care about depth sensing, facial recognition etc.

I seriously don't understand why Nintendo hasn't done this already. If only I can ask Iwata this question.

Iwata already looked at the technology before Microsoft did and they did not like the technology

in other words, OP thinks natal will be a big success

Well, Nintendo had a camera peripheral on GBA, DSi has a camera, Dreameye was a flop, Eyetoy on PS2 wasn't a huge success and Eyetoy haven't made PS3 a great success either.

The question considering Natal is, that why haven't the earlier camera controllers succeeded. Is it because they weren't good enough or do the market just reject camera controllers.

In other words, OP thinks tech will sell Natal, not games.

No, they looked at the 3DV technology. Natal is using Primesense + Microsoft proprietary software, big difference there.

OT: Theres no point. Nintendo are the leaders and the incumbants. They have all the time in the world to plan their moves. They don't have to act like the Sony of this generation and rush things to market because they're under pressure. They have the profit, they have the mind share and they have the ability to consider their oppositions moves and plan their own. In chess terms they have board position and have knocked over their oponents queen.

errr if Nint adopts a camera, it'll be for the Wii2... and it's unlikely...

yeah so did sony.

microsoft it's going to market it like it's accurate though, when it isn't.

Nope they didn't. It was 3DV. Natal is primesense. The reason why Microsoft bought 3DV is so that they control all potentially similar camera technology so it would be difficult for anyone to come along and copy them.

Iwata has stated that when prototyping the Wii, they considered camera based motion sensing (including 3d cameras) but decided against it. This is not something you can debate - Iwata said it. You can call him a liar if you so desire.

Here's a link, unfortunately no direct quotes. I'd look in more detail, but I'm off to grab some food

http://www.gossipgamers.com/nintendo-considered-camera-based-motion-control/