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Sorry for necroing this thread, but googling for something completely different I found this old thread about a Malstrom prediction, and boys, he was scaringly TRUE!!!

Natal will never be released! In fact it will be called Kinect. Natal? Who's that? Who knows it?  



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This malstroem is worse than pachter. What a clown.



Alby_da_Wolf said:

Sorry for necroing this thread, but googling for something completely different I found this old thread about a Malstrom prediction, and boys, he was scaringly TRUE!!!

Natal will never be released! In fact it will be called Kinect. Natal? Who's that? Who knows it?  

Sorry, but you seem to me a very petty person, like those who popping out on VGC forums from time to time just to make "I was right, you were wrong" threads . Given your position in the past discussion your attitutde is understandable. Enjoy =)

But enough with personal criticism and back on topic of the thread you've exhumed from the grave. If I got Malstrom message right it's not really about Natal not being released (that's a bit over the top) but Natal is hype without substance, that supposed to keep people from buying Wiis while the hype lasts rather than a real product for the time being.

I'd be lying if I said this argument doesn't make sense to me.



mai said:

If I got Malstrom message right it's not really about Natal not being released

I don't know. He does say it could be released with all the promised features stripped out, but he also says in about four or five different ways that it would never see the light of day. It really doesn't read like hyperbole to me, so I think he meant exactly that.



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badgenome said:
mai said:

If I got Malstrom message right it's not really about Natal not being released

I don't know. He does say it could be released with all the promised features stripped out, but he also says in about four or five different ways that it would never see the light of day. It really doesn't read like hyperbole to me, so I think he meant exactly that.

Well, I don't treat Malstrom's posts like a prophetic truth, but a food for thought. In every Kinect related post I've read he usually rants how Microsoft is marketing company, and how Kinect is marketing stunt. From what (and recent events on E3 as well MS post-E3 changed rhetoric on that matter) I draw a conclusion that Kinect is indeed a hype without a substance.



mai said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Sorry for necroing this thread, but googling for something completely different I found this old thread about a Malstrom prediction, and boys, he was scaringly TRUE!!!

Natal will never be released! In fact it will be called Kinect. Natal? Who's that? Who knows it?  

Sorry, but you seem to me a very petty person, like those who popping out on VGC forums from time to time just to make "I was right, you were wrong" threads . Given your position in the past discussion your attitutde is understandable. Enjoy =)

But enough with personal criticism and back on topic of the thread you've exhumed from the grave. If I got Malstrom message right it's not really about Natal not being released (that's a bit over the top) but Natal is hype without substance, that supposed to keep people from buying Wiis while the hype lasts rather than a real product for the time being.

I'd be lying if I said this argument doesn't make sense to me.

I think that MS is marketing Kinect in an appalling and incoherent way, failing to exploit its bigger strenths, but this doesn't mean Malstrom is true. And whatever he really meant, he always expresses his opinion in a way that his most gormless fans take it literally. BTW I wrote he's true, so his most faithful fans should take me literally like they do with their guru and so they should be happy.   O-) 



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TGS, Third Grade Shooter: brand new genre invented by Kevin Butler exclusively for Natal WiiToo Kinect. PEW! PEW-PEW-PEW! 
 


His view is of a particular market - and it is a well thought out one. He doesn't talk in absolutes usually.

Gonna go read the initial post now.



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Hmmm. He might be right/wrong on this one. We'll have to see what the actual thing does and whether it is hype over content regarding the features.

Has anyone played it from VGC?



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This was taken from an email given to Malstrom, so it's not him.

The idea that Natal will never be released is ridiculous.  They talked about it at the last two E3s and it's been on television shows like Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.  I know that no one watches that show, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.



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