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I'll stick with my controller, thank you very much.



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steven787 said:
Mojo said:
(Wii owner) Unless Nintendo has something VERY big and unexpected up their sleeves, they are worried. Unless Sonyhas something VERY big and unexpected up their sleeves, they are terrified.

(PSWii)  I don't think Nintendo needs to worry too much, they have an install base already.  Sony has to worry no matter what because they still aren't making money.

 

The difference is that Natal looks like a more immersive (ie better) motion control and the XBOX already has the hi-def graphics. No matter what, for Nintendo to catch MS in the tech (not sales obviously), they need to release a new system.



 



well, now that the xbox has motion control and a cheapre price point. it has the potential to outsell the wii. i think that it will be well used and will pretty awesome



Aside from appearing technologically neat with voice and motion recognition, I think it looks god awful from a gaming standpoint. Do I want to hold my hands in the air and drive a make believe steering wheel? No. Do I want to stomp around and wave my arms around wildly? Not really.

I hope you can push Milo in the lake.



price aside, they have to sell it first, to sell it they need games, obviously better than a card game or a kid inside an aquarium or a 3D pong, and I don't see a lot of people taking risks but themselves. They could have made a Halo Wars demo using this, would be much cooler. and hey, even a Fight Night Round tech demo would be awesome with it. as it is right now it's a cool TECH for the future, but I really don't think it will affect the Wii.



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I saw soo many glitches just on the conference. Everyone, go to the part where the guy in the red says "ever wanted to see your avatars shoes?" After the guy says that a huge glitch occurs. Go watch it.



fadetoone said:
Aside from appearing technologically neat with voice and motion recognition, I think it looks god awful from a gaming standpoint. Do I want to hold my hands in the air and drive a make believe steering wheel? No. Do I want to stomp around and wave my arms around wildly? Not really.

I hope you can push Milo in the lake.

Another person who clearly misses the entire point of Natal.



Legend11 said:
senseinobaka said:
Failure. It fundamentally misses some of the important aspects of motion gaming, the lack of local multiplayer is particularly alarming. Also it looks wonky, the camera capture isnt polished yet at all. It's a great idea..but needs some more years in development.

I also think MS internally lacks the ability/innovation to design stellar apps around it. What they showed was horrible. Splashing paint hap-hazardly around? Really!? 3-d breakout: Flail edition? Its almost as if they dont get gaming.


Huh?  They showed 4-5 people using it in one of the demos.  Also do you judge  how games will turn out for a consoles based on the tech demos shown before the console is ever released?  And why did you completely ignore Peter's game at the end which seems pretty interesting?


They said it could not handle multiplayer, and frankly I dont see how it ever could with current tech. And I do judge the games. I'm someone who is the biggest supporter of motion control, and it's sad that MS can develop a motion controller that this early in development trumps nintnedo's yet they arent skilled enough to develop apps that utilize it well. Also, Milo shows off great software AI...but doest show off gaming implementation.



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Can someone link the video. I can't find it anywhere.



We'll have to see how successful this "Natal" is.

There will always be natal haters and natal nuthuggers but I think success is going to depend on two things.

1. The price
2. Software support.

I personally was not impressed at anything except for the painting segment, yet I know I wouldn't dish out anymore than $20 just to virtual paint. This kinda reminds me of the Eyetoy except with voice recognition. Either way, the reason why the eyetoy never took off was because there was not enough software support from Sony.