It could be several years before gamers see developers like BioWare incorporating Project Natal into flagship projects -- development kits only landed in their laps a few weeks ago -- but one arm of the influential Canadian RPG studio has gone on record with GamesIndustry.biz about its interest.

"Yeah. I got a demo of Project Natal before E3. So I got to check it out hands-on at EA with some other folks, and I thought it was pretty cool," said BioWare general manager and co-founder Ray Muzyka. " […] Natal looks exceptionally interesting as a platform extension. I think it's a really powerful idea."

"I think it applies very much to an emotionally-engaging narrative and a story-driven game," continued Muzyka. "Fulfilling characterisation more completely in games is I guess a way to achieve that. So it's something we'd be interested in exploring. We haven't made any announcements or anything, but it's an intriguing technology that I think we'd want to see more of and see what we could do with it."

The idea of a Project Natal-supporting space-faring RPG in the vein of Mass Effect fused with the character interaction prototyped in Peter Molyneux's Milo demo at E3 sounds good to me. Too bad it's going to be a long, long time before that happens, but I can wait.

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Thats great Microsoft is so original.

Well there we go. All you haters beware!

And ?

It will be as powerful as the Eyetoy is.

Oh man, imagine if Nintendo released Natal. I can't even begin to fathom the extreme opposites we'd be hearing from Dev's (and Natal supporting X360 fans).

Same kind of people thought Virtual Reality would be the next great thing. Tossing your own grenades and becoming the true G.I Joe they've always wanted to be. I see this incorporated in the same kind of games that was shown during E3. Bouncing balls and doing paint jobs. You'll never have a full integration to TPS or FPS games with this product, atleast not within this generation or even the next.

Oh stop your blubbering, If Nintendo had released NATAL they would have gotten the same treatement. You nintendo fans are all the same with your "everybody is out to get the Wii" mentality. Here's a tissue for those tears!

@MAFKKA Yes, NATAL can work with FPS, there have been huge threads debating such things. I see this incorperating all genras...but I guess it's because I have the ability to think outside the box...kinda like MS on this issue.

I agree I think Natal is an excelent addon to a platform. More specificly I beleive visiual input.

"Natal looks exceptionally interesting as a platform extension. I think it's a really powerful idea."
Just to be clear he isn't talking about Natal as a controller replacement. Just an excellent extension.

as long as it's at a reasonable price it will be a success. Microsoft must make sure that everyone can enjoy it.