Because no person paid $99.99 for Wii Fit, right?

People's purchasing habits are unusual, they're willing to spend $200 on Rockband or $100 on Wii Fit, but the Playstation Eye is too expensive for people at $40 ... If people see value in Project NATAL Microsoft could sell a lot at $200, if they don't it won't take off at $50.

I don't think it's an issue of something being too expensive, but it having a perceived value of being better.

If NATAL enables for a fantastic fitness game, and Oprah (among others) get in on it, I'm sure it'll sell well, regardless of price. Otherwise, it will flop and the price will be irrelevant.

My point was that you can't really put a pricetag on a quality product. The Wii is excruciatingly overpriced for what you get in the machine. However, it has a high perceived value due to the unique controller, which has allowed it to sell better than the 360/PS3, despite it's abysmal shortcomings.

I started to read this thread (obviously got this far) but then decided it wasn't worth my time to read all the posts, but I really wanted to say this.

IGN said that Kid Icuras was going to be shown at E3 08. They have made lots of other statements that they said were 100% true then failed to come true. Believing E3 is like believing surfer girl or biker boy, or whatever other lame blog you want.

Big difference between 100 and 200 dollars, especially when you have to buy another console for one or two games, Wii Fit is one extra game on an already popular console, the Wii, people know that the Wii will have a bunch of motion control exergames, NATAL is an addon late in the lifespan of 360, and its not likely to get a lot of support from developers, its apples and oranges between Wii Fit and NATAL

You sir, completely misread everything I had posted her. You also fail to see the obviouise. You first question (how do you move forward, backwards, strafe left. etc.) has an obviouse answer, you actually perform those actions. you want to straft left, move left, you wanna jump, jump, you wanna turn around, twist your body. you wanna reload your weapon, act like you are reloading a gun, you wanna switch weapons, just say so! 

The lag you speak on probably does need several data points, but as the software develops, they should find a way to more efficiantly pick those points, thus resulting in less lag. Also, the 3D feature helps reduce lag, since it is able to pick up more points. Also, nobody said MILO wasn't "scripted" he isn't in a sense, but as will all programs, he has his limitations. He "learns" from the person playing the game, and adapts to what he knows. Even if it's not your cup of tea, it's very impressive software.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/04/ea-sports-already-working-on-active-for-natal-ps3-motion-control/

From the post:

"Absolutely," Moore said. "Natal is the perfect example of what you could do there. If you could imagine EA Sports Active done via Natal ... and we are working on that right now, we saw Natal a couple months ago and we started thinking about how we could bring health/wellness and fitness to a Natal-type experience. Same with Sony with the motion controller, how can you utilize what they showed on Tuesday to bring fitness to that. But I think Natal is a huge opportunity."

lmao. an excersie video as a killer app. you can rent exercise videos att he library for free. if i want to work out I'll go to the gym where all the real man work out at.

How about a 300 workout where you move your body while mutilating Persians?

You can rent an exercise vid at a library, yes, but will it get you motivated? Imagine the game pressing you harder, reacting to your face of pain as you feel the burn. If people wanted to to work out at the gym, they wouldn't be buying Wii fit.