I maintain a neutral stance. It could be interesting, it could be abysmal. We won't know until its released. Until then, there's no reason to discuss this concept technology.

LOL right. People have been using the "Waggle" for Wii for 3 years now, and you think that a week of "Bam" is getting old?

At the rate that fanboys use things like "kiddie" "waggle" and apparently "bam", these words will enter the slang dictionaries as common words in time.

no where in that demonstartion did it even attempt to differentiate the four people.  i'm sure it could have it it wanted to but because clothes has absolutley nothing to do with facial recontition but the red jumpsuits certainly had nothing to do with showing off the natals facial reconition feature.

Not really.

For late night TV, his show plays third string while Conan and Letterman are much more popular.

Didn't I hear Fallen say something about it changing the hair once he took over from Kudo?  I am on my phone and cannot watch it again.  Maybe I was just hearing things.

............So....where were you for the past 3 years when all the Wii owners were claiming "The metacritic reviews doesn't matter, all that matters is if the people playing the game were having fun"? When the Wii games were lambasted for having "poor graphics (when comparing to HD games)," "little to no story (compared to HD AAA games)," and being "just a bunch of mini-games," where were you to defend the idea that "it is all about the fun"?

I'm not blaming you two directly, but it is a sincere question of "where were you"? Did you have the same opinion at the time, or did you join the bandwagon and changed your viewpoint when Microsoft and Sony finally came around and realized that Nintendo was going with something here? Because I am seeing more and more posters here changing their views about the motion controls, but instead of admitting they were wrong they still hold the same opinion of Nintendo....instead of truly believing that "it is about the fun," they are just acting as blind fanboys of their respective choice of system.

IMHO, I think it is great that MS and Sony have opened up to motion controls. I personally would want to see more games than Breakout and Burnout. Mainly because:

1. The Breakout game seems to be just....a little...foolish. Don't get me wrong, if it is fun, it is fun. Some fun is more refined (I hate that word but I can't seem to find a better one) like going to the arcades, going to a carnival, a game of baseball, football, basketball, etc. and then there is fun that a 2 year old would have. I just feel this game relegates to the latter, but that is just my opinion.

2. As everyone seems to have an issue with, there seems to be a little lag with this game between steering and the result shown on the screen. Racing games, esp. with the speeds of the cars, requires a lot of precision. Whether it really is because of just overreacting to the steering due to not holding a wheel or because there is a legitimate lag, either way there seems to be an essential problem here. The fact of not holding a wheel when driving a car....is not natural. That is the point of motion controls for video games....to make things natural for people to play and to have fun. Not having something to hold on to when driving a car is not natural.

So what would be the best games for Natal? I don't know...I don't develop games for it. The karate game thing? Sure, so long as there aren't any lawsuits of T.V. being broken by idiots...Ricocheting balls or volleyball? Sure, Volleyball seems to be a great idea...lets hope Nintendo doesn't best it in Wii Sports Resort with their controls right now.

The skateboarding game thing shown at E3? The new Tony Hawk game with the skateboarding peripheral seems to be more intuitive, even if it means it is less technological superiority than Natal. And I think that is the idea. The technology doesn't have to be superior in order to make it better than another product...it has to be more intuitive. That is what I fear Sony and MS has forgotten and has messed up.

Wow, I haven't seen this amount of hate for a "pre alpha" tech demo ever.

How many times did we hear Jimmy ask if he could take it home or if he could get one? I watch the show semi often and I have never scene him ask anything like that before. I think Project Natal has a lot of promise! That entire clip makes the thing look like buckets of fun. If this public support continues, I really think Microsoft has a winner on its hands. And this is what scares some people.

To any of you who think M$ has paid for this publicity your wrong, if anything someone at Jimmy Fallons show asked them to bring the thing by. Apparently Fallon is a huge gamer. And since its free advertising why would M$ want to turn it down? A couple plane tickets for a nationwide commercial, sounds like a good deal to me. Even if it is late night.

P.S. I can see why people are worried about the lag, hell I am too (a little). But to say its going to be bad in the finished product is a joke. This is a pre alpha tech demo people!

Looked awesome. If NATAL has a decent number of games when it launches, I will buy this day-1. The technology looks fantastic, especially given the fact I will now not have to buy a Wii to get similar fun gaming

mrstickball said: Looked awesome. If NATAL has a decent number of games when it launches, I will buy this day-1. The technology looks fantastic, especially given the fact I will now not have to buy a Wii to get similar fun gaming

But that is the thing....are you into motion controls or just into anything that is not Wii-related? Because if it is the former, you could have gotten a Wii a long time ago...though it was in its infancy, there were plenty of games that proved that motion controls were fun and with WM+ that has arrived, you can have 1:1 motion right now.

But if you weren't really into it, but into anything not touched by the Wii...then I guess the NATAL is for you.

pakidan -

I am into motion controls. The reason I have not purchased a Wii is because there are few if any games that interest me that have motion controls. I like the idea of motion controls, but want motion controls in games I care for...Which the Wii doesn't have.

As I've been saying, I want an Elder Scrolls-type experience with motion controls - being able to hack away, defend with a shield, talk to people, and do all that cool stuff. Does the Wii have any games like that, at the moment? WM+ isn't out yet, AFAIK, so I haven't seen any upcoming games that do that, other than Red Steel 2.

And having said all of that, I don't think I really want to go out and spend $250 on a Wii + WM+ for a grand total fo $280 when I may be able to get a similar experience with the games I want on the X360 + NATAL without having to invest in another console.