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monlosez on 18 June 2009
 

 

Microsoft's pet project titled towards groping in a larger audience seems to be running to hit another milestone. As developers continue to grumble regarding the storage capacity of the 360 in light of placing modern games such the  GTA IV in the midst of the consoles storage limitations, Project Natal which is touted as one of the driving features of Microsoft's next generation project will be backward compatible with all released SKUs including the arcade which retails sans the hard-drive. In a candid interview to Gamasutra, Shane Kim not only outlines the future of 360's but also talks about Natal and its importance in the curriculum of growing the boundaries of its company.

BS: Will Natal be usable on arcade consoles that don't have a hard drive?

SK: Yeah, I believe that.

Microsoft mean business with this project and it shows in almost every interview/demo they discuss regarding the project.

http://www.skoar.com/news/admin/natal-does-not-require-a-hard-drive.html?Itemid=46

 

 

Microsoft Building New Studio For Next Generation Natal

 

Natal seems to be on track for defining a unique form of entertainment that will encompass both casual and hardcore users alike. With high profile development teams such as Epic, Bungie and Lionhead studios already pledging their support for the project, Microsoft has also started to build up a separate team (similar on the lines of their internal Halo team) within Microsoft Game Studios to handle high profile games that are bound for this piece of technology. The postings include a creative director, lead environment artist and lead software development engineer who is well versed with current middleware engines such as Unreal 3 and CryEngine.

That is a whole lot of innovation and muscle power their gaming division is hunting for. A note for all those who are deemed to be hired-Please craft games that do not make us look juvenile and retarded.


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dsister44 on 18 June 2009

well that makes it more accessability for the casuals.



PullusPardus on 18 June 2009

well i dont think a camera can be downloaded on a hard drive... right?



Nightmare24 on 18 June 2009

Thats great, MS is truly b3y0nd.



The Anarchyz on 18 June 2009

I guess all the propietary software will be inside the peripheral.



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JaggedSac on 18 June 2009

They obviously are going to be supporting Natal well through first party offerings. Good news.



Squilliam on 18 June 2009

They also have that 1GB of space on the DVD which developers cannot access at this point. Forwards compability anyone? If they needed to put in a seperate software engine to take advantage of tweaked Xbox 360 specs they would put it there.



Tease.

Tyrannical on 18 June 2009

Natal is supposed to have it's own CPU to process the video before sending it to the 360.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

The Anarchyz on 19 June 2009
Tyrannical said:
Natal is supposed to have it's own CPU to process the video before sending it to the 360.

According to them it's a CPU running propietary software, so the guess is that all is inside the device, then all the processed data will be sended to the 360 to display it... that's good considering the complexity of the project...



FaRmLaNd on 19 June 2009

believe