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mike_intellivision on 16 November 2009

Something just seems strange about this award.

Every other Grand Award winner is either for sale or in use. Natal is still a prototype.
I am not saying that Project Natal may not be everything it is promised to be. But Microsoft has oversold and underdelivered on products before. So I want to see it before I proclaim it.

And the same factors that govern anything with respect to video games -- hardware price, hardware reliability, and software quality -- will determine the success or lack thereof for Project Natal.

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Salamander on 16 November 2009

It may look cool out for a while but that has been shown to be thumbs down from me. I do not think it's fun to play without controls



dsister44 on 16 November 2009
Salamander said:

It may look cool out for a while but that has been shown to be thumbs down from me. I do not think it's fun to play without controls


How would you know? How many games have you played without a controller?

dorbin2009 on 16 November 2009
Salamander said:

It may look cool out for a while but that has been shown to be thumbs down from me. I do not think it's fun to play without controls


So you got Natal a year early? Sweet dude, what do you think of the games?

Oh wait...you didn't? You're just judging something prematurely? Aaaah, got it.

Seriously a lot of people need to shut their mouths. I hate to be mean about it but wasn't the same thing said about Nintendo's Wii mote back in the day? And look how that turned out. It's a lot of hype but for a good reason. You even have credited game developers drooling over the prospect of it, but the fanboy goggles seem to come out in force with this add on. D



r505Matt on 16 November 2009
dorbin2009 said:
Salamander said:

It may look cool out for a while but that has been shown to be thumbs down from me. I do not think it's fun to play without controls


So you got Natal a year early? Sweet dude, what do you think of the games?

Oh wait...you didn't? You're just judging something prematurely? Aaaah, got it.

Seriously a lot of people need to shut their mouths. I hate to be mean about it but wasn't the same thing said about Nintendo's Wii mote back in the day? And look how that turned out. It's a lot of hype but for a good reason. You even have credited game developers drooling over the prospect of it, but the fanboy goggles seem to come out in force with this add on. D

Yeah, I guess these major developers don't know what they're doing. I mean they're all obviously working with Natal because they DISLIKE it, and think it's not fun to play with right?



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Cueil on 17 November 2009

These guys that gave this award are head and shoulders smarter than anyone on these forums...



 
Get your Portable ID!

akuseru on 17 November 2009
selnor said:
Heavenly Sigma said:
But nobody has seen the end product and the idea has been done before. Xbox already has camera games. I guess they have to give it to somebody.


Yes but noone has done this for home entertainment before. Yes N64 had a camera. Yes we had PSEye. But Natal is something much more advanced and intuitive. If you cant see that, well I'm lost.

Well, I guess you have to be lost then. Because I can't see that either. To me, Natal looks just like a PSEye 1.1, maybe not even that. Natal will only fool people into buying something they could've bought several years ago. It will also be overpriced, I'm guessing between $100-$150.



Bladeforce on 17 November 2009

$100+ niche product anything less and it wont sell because the software will be crap. The technology is cool though just not in the right arena of videogames.



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alanshearer on 18 November 2009

Bizarre stuff. Natal is a clone of eyetoy. Why didnt eyetoy win this award?.



JaggedSac on 18 November 2009

There aren't enough face palms in the world for the PSEye clone comments.