I believe that the Sony Wand aka Sphere will fail to make any real impact.  It really offers no significant differences from Nintendo's offering other than the PS3's horsepower and since casuals wouldn't care about that anyways it puts the PS3 at a major disadvantage.  The Wii has better and more well known casual games and is $100 cheaper.  In fact Sony's gameplan is the same kind of obvious "What the hell are they thinking?" that could easily be seen with the PSP Go and initial PS3 price point.  Add to that Sony's very sloppy demonstration of the tech at this year's E3 and it's obvious they're making a half-assed attempt that is doomed to failure.  The best that they can hope for is ports of Wii games that does nothing to differentiate its offering.

Natal on the other hand has a much better chance at success.  It's very obvious to casuals that it's a different offering than what  they can get on the Wii.  It's also obvious that Microsoft is betting a lot more on this so you can bet that there is going to be significantly more advertising dollars and other money poured into the effort.  I also believe that EA, Ubisoft, and Activision will show a lot more support for it since it is likely obvious to them that Microsoft is far more serious about taking on the Wii.  Everyone can argue about the accuracy of the system but in the end if people can more easily feel like they're a part of the game it has the possibility of being a game changer.  Add to that the fact that it's something new compared to Sony's offering and that alone should give it a lot more attention from the media.

I think Microsoft will brute force some level of Natal success. They're basically treating it like a platform relaunch, they're eating costs, already heavily promoting it, lining up big commitments of support (pretty much every major publisher so far) and rumors point to a console bundle and 14 game launch even.

Sony on the other hand seems like it doesn't know wtf to do with Swand or Sphere or whatever (hell, they don't even know what to name it), it's only a season away and it's only launch game is looking like it'll be a repackaged RE5. Imagine if Wii had launched with just RE4 and wasn't even named until fall 2006...

replace i doubt it with yes since ubisoft is developing 10 games for natal with all launch as a natal release title or within six months of natal launching.http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/21586/Ubisoft-Plans-Heavy-Support-For-Natal/.

they don't have to do graphics game for natal its casual remembe which means it could be caroonish graphics. i myself wouldn't mind sartoonish graphics with fun and great gameplay.

Ubisoft huh. I hope all you 360 owners like Rabbids...

There are expectations for the ps wand?

my thoughts are for consoles the wand and natal would fail. now here is my other thought when i first saw natal. instead of M$ making it xbox360 only why not scrap the idea to be on the 360 and do it for pc owners. i know as a pc user if that was on here for a decent price i would look at maybe getting it. cause i mean think about it your everyday actions on a pc are turning pages on forums and such, looking at articles, surfing the net, alot are on facebook, and some are gamers but the gamers already have a mouse and keyboard just for gaming. can you imagine being on a pc on an HDTV and using natal to do all your daily things on it. i know for me it would be a must have cause of the ideal of the whole thing and the ease of its use in a pc perspective.

The fact that the wand can be used much like the wiimote is exactly why it *will* succeed, I think. It will be cake to port Wii game concepts to the PS3, via the wand.

Not sure why people think that's a bad idea at all. The Wii and PS3 will start to have crossplat games, both casual and otherwise. That's a huge boon for both the Wii, the PS3, and the publishers making those games for the Wii today.

Are you kidding? Using arm or hand motions to browse through websites, e-mail, documents, selecting and moving things with gestures and motions? Actually 'typing' texts im the air with my fingers? It'd be terribly awkward, slow and tiring, compared to a simple mouse and keyboard.

Something like that would only appeal to the truly obsessed, perhaps it'd be fun, for a while, but the novelty would wear off quickly. Stuff like that just doesn't work for professionals, maybe for looking through some holiday pictures with the family it'd be okay, but that's about it.

This thread annoys me because there's actually people making opinions off of no valuable info. I mean we don't know ANYTHING about SONY and MS motion gadgets other then some tech demos. we have no idea of what game's will be launching, how hard they will be advertised, and most importantly how 3rd parties see them, hell.....there reports saying that JAPAN was happy about SONY wand and then theirs the video with a bunch of developers pledging to support wand so its off to a get good start.

Natal doesnt look ready. I mean the lag in the racing demos was frightening but it could have other uses besides real time interaction.

The Sony Wand - To quote Chad Warden "Man that thing looks like a dildo, I dont wanna play with no dildo"

How the once mighty have fallen. Of the two I think Natal will fair slightly better.

The Sony Wand is just a blatant rip off of Nintedo's motion plus and original dildo....I mean controller.