Sony and Microsoft people often say things that reveal the tru nature of what thier thinking is only later to retract what they said or we let certain nuggets slide under the rug without paying attention. So I'm gonna put before you an argument not often seen with evidence from there own mouths.
PROJECT NATAL IS A TROJAN HOARSE FOR MICROSOFT JUST LIKE BLU-RAY WAS FOR SONY.
In interviews conducted immediatly after e3 where both sony's wand and project natal were shown 3 things were said but rarelymentioned after that.
1. The sony wand and eye combo uses the internal spu's of the ps3 to do it's processing.
2. Project natal uses it's own custom designed processor for its processing.
3. Developers and journalist are under strict NDA's ( non, disclosure, agreements) about the specifics of natal.
Add to this the rumor that came out of e3 that microsoft would be launching a new system with a cpu with double the processing power and double the memory and things start looking suspicious.
Ask yourself how will Natal connect to the x360 and I bet you say usb of course, well if you are so inclined go read the original x360 spec sheets and learn that it doesn't have a normal usb port instead it has a high speed data port that can communicate dirctly with the cpu+gpu.
The biggest question from journalist and developers coming from e3 was not how much will the sony wand/eye combo cost which is 2 pieces of hardware but how much will natal cost.
The qustion is if natal is simply a playstation eye with different software why were developers of all company's even those notoriously pro sony like hideo kojima fawning all over it when sony had their wand/eye combo right there. They are developers after all they could just develop a similar software....right?
Steve balmer siad it would ber launched as if it were a new system. Why? He called it a new platform. why?
And in"Project Natal provides a groundbreaking new way for games to use natural user motion to interact with the Xbox 360. Experience the future now, with this cutting-edge technology! Join us to learn how to develop world-class titles using Project Natal, which provides many exciting new features that can be challenging to programmers. In the Project Natal Technical track, we will walk you through how to overcome these challenges with a combination of classic techniques and new thinking. We will explore the depths of this exciting technology and dive deep into gesture recognition, avatar retargeting, speech recognition, advanced raw stream processing, handling different player environments, and many other topics. No controller required!"
aly today another nugget was revealed.
The key word to all that was, "advanced raw stream processing" Remember that natal will have its own processor, well if it has it's own processor doenn't it need it's own memory?
Epic reps have let is slip that microsoft will ship all new x360 in 2010 and beyond with natal and sell them cheap in an atempt to get them in as many homes as possible.
Microsoft is great at marketing and this is thier best job yet. Project natal to those that pay attention will be revealed as a mid-generation upgrade to the xbox360.
It will give added processing power through the custom designed cpu and added memory and send it back though the main board by way of
advanced raw stream processing.
Microsoft will pull off the the biggest sneak attack ever. The ps3 wasn't desined to do this, it has normal usb ports, and thy've locked themselves in with a design combo that doesn't add power to the system but takes it away.
So imagine games on the x360/natal platform that look waaaaay better that uncharted2 because of the added cpu and memory of natal while sony's wand/eye combo can't even duplicate the likes of uncharted1 because the combo uses some of the system's spu's to function.
