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mike_intellivision on 16 December 2009

Microsoft has started a new "Family Games" marketing initiative. I see Project Natal falling into that arena.

Of course, Sony says it has the true motion system.

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supercat on 16 December 2009
rover said:
"Natal is a bad idea..."
"It's an Atari jaguar..."

All we've seen so far for Natal were essentially tech demos on hardware which has already gone through several revisions and isn't used in current development.

I'd suggest waiting until E3 2010 before deciding that there's nothing worth looking at, as that will be very close to product release time.


No.     Either way, the computer chips will be processing this, not so much the software, MS either needs to spring for more expensive chips, spend more on software, or just be happy with what they have. 



supercat on 16 December 2009

So, the 360 fans should be happy that Natal will be the first peripheral to succeed, ever, correct?



JaggedSac on 16 December 2009
supercat said:
So, the 360 fans should be happy that Natal will be the first peripheral to succeed, ever, correct?

I would call the guitars and drums for the music games a success.  I would also call Wii Fit a success.



Demotruk on 16 December 2009
supercat said:
So, the 360 fans should be happy that Natal will be the first peripheral to succeed, ever, correct?

Balance board? Wii Motion Plus? Other Nintendo peripherals?

 

(it will of course, need to be bundled well to succeed, and have a rebranding for the console)



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twesterm on 16 December 2009
JaggedSac said:
supercat said:
So, the 360 fans should be happy that Natal will be the first peripheral to succeed, ever, correct?

I would call the guitars and drums for the music games a success.  I would also call Wii Fit a success.

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I know Atari had a bunch of accessories but I wouldn't call any of those a success.

And also, yeah, Wii Fit is a pretty huge success and before that I would say the DDR dance pad was a a success.



 

amp316 on 18 December 2009

All I read was fad; gimmick; blah blah blah.



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rover on 18 December 2009
supercat said:
rover said:
"Natal is a bad idea..."
"It's an Atari jaguar..."

All we've seen so far for Natal were essentially tech demos on hardware which has already gone through several revisions and isn't used in current development.

I'd suggest waiting until E3 2010 before deciding that there's nothing worth looking at, as that will be very close to product release time.


No.     Either way, the computer chips will be processing this, not so much the software, MS either needs to spring for more expensive chips, spend more on software, or just be happy with what they have. 

No?  I'm not sure I get your point.

My point was stating that Natal is a failure because of a few very early tech demos on old hardware is a short-sighted and unrealistic position.

Natal will ship at the end of 2010, most likely, so E3 2010 will be games very close to completion and the hardware will have been nailed down by that point.  E3 2010's showing is closer to what people should use to say whether Natal is a success or a failure.

I understand the talk about the chips, but serious performance optimizations are occurring all the time.  We've all seen driver and hardware optimizations occur.



N.Genckel on 18 December 2009

MS is really going all buying good publicity before this thing comes out. Makes me confident that they will put a lot of weight behind it.



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Dv8thwonder on 18 December 2009

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