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mike_intellivision on 01 June 2009
Mojo said:
To quote Mr. Dudley, "Prices and timing weren't available, but it won't be available until 2010 at the earliest and will probably cost around $200. Microsoft has already given game developers tools to start building games that uses the device."

This guy is pretty clever to give an estimated price and date when he himself admits that these details aren't available.

Also for the people claiming this will be next generation, the presenter specifically said they can release this next generation technology on this generation. This will be on the 360.

And that rushing to market is the potential downfall of what could be a very good piece of hardware.

The reason for the Wii's success is that those controllers are in everyone's hands. By releasing this five years into a system's cycle, there are a lot of people who will never get it and thus a lot of development will never be done for it. It could be the Eyetoy or PSEye of the Xbox 360.

 

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TX109 on 01 June 2009

to think the wii is dead is delusional. Natal looks like it will work for only a few select games. like ones in which you dont have to move on your own. i cant see Halo, Gears, CoD, even Fable working on this. you still need a controller to control most parts of a game. with WM+ comeing soon i doubt nintendo has anything to worry about. plus i think nintedno may have something like this in the works.



                                                                                                  
dahuman on 01 June 2009

my speculation is that Nintendo probably has thought about something like this but realized that it wasn't a good design choice as a standard controller so they designed something like the Wiimote where you are able to feel more weight and still having the option to play normal games with the extension port on the bottom of it(for nunchuck, classic controller, etc.) now that I think about it, Nintendo really did their homework when designing the wiimote, and with WM+, it's now a complete package.



Phoenix_Wiight on 01 June 2009
Soriku said:

@Pheonix

Don't look at stores then, search online. There's a ton of good games coming.

I know, I understand, but people need to actually buy these games too =/

 

Madworld's sales make me cry, and it's a great game. I gotta head to Gamestop this week and reserve the Conduit. I just hope Nintendo has some stuff in store that people will actually buy.



FaithRaven on 01 June 2009

Natal it's awesome and stuff but ... it's 10 times more casual than Wii motion controls. I guess the Wii fans can now laugh at Xbox going more casual than Wii lol.



 

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Mojo on 01 June 2009
the2bears said:
Mojo said:
Where are people getting this $200 price from? They didn't announce anything at the conference. Sounds like the anti-Natal smear campaign is already in effect within 5 minutes of its announcement.

You're so funny.  You just created a conspiracy theory out of nothing!

Thanks!



 



SaviorX on 01 June 2009

Natal is not a serious threat to the Wii.

As for what Nintendo can do to win E3, they should just showcase in a quick montage all the "core games" coming for the Wii we know about, with 2 franchises returning. Could be anything. A Zelda Wii trailer would silence anyone, so they can do that, but I think they will save that for their October conference.



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maykissthebride on 01 June 2009

THink:

Motion Plus: announced one year ago. Only now the first games are coming

And its just a piece of plastic that you add to the wiimote.



This Natal will take at least 2 years for games to take advantage of it.

Look pretty great, but they must come with some way for you character to walk...


PS: Natal means Christmas in portuguese. Maybe this will see launch at this christmas?



dahuman on 01 June 2009

I was actually hoping that MS might have came out with something better, but now I want to slap them in the face multiple times because there is noway in hell that I'm going to jump all over the place and hurt people or my display even worse, the Wiimote is already bad enough with shitty game design choices where you sometimes have to waggle for 4 hours straight in a jerk off motion, Natal isn't helping, at all, only making it worse.



megaman79 on 01 June 2009

Look you could be certain that Nintendo prob. saw this tech in 2006, or atleast the potential of controller less controls, and decided against it. Maybe thats all you need to know.

I think the depth of game control is extremely limiting and the games that are released next year will prove this.



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