Now did you even watch CES? Firstly the very same video goes on to say that Natal is the only product of it's type to actually realtime track the entire body. Unlike other products in the field ( clearly referring to Eyetoy ) where he says " Until now, if you wanted to measure the movements of parts of somebody's body you'd need some kind of device like a remote ( wii ) or a marker ( Eyetoy + wand ). The player doesnt need to fit their actions with the technology like before. Natal changes for the player.

Now for the BIGGEST statement in the video. EXACTLY THE SAME STATEMENT AS AT E3 09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

50% Hardware and 50% Software. Oh sh*t the article in OP loses all credibility. It obviously hasnt lost anything since E3. So either the decision was made to lose some chip 2 or 3 years ago. Or no chips have been lost at all. Becasue it's the same as said at E3. Not 40& Hardware not 30 - 70 it's still as of Jan 06th 50-50.

Oh and Natal tracks 48 points of your body. Confirmed. Sigh.

Natal will have the exact same functionality as before, the only difference is that the 360 CPU will be doing what the Natal chip was before.  So Natal still uses IR to determine depth and location of people, which was the advantage it had over Eyetoy and Ubicam.

One thing's for sure without the bone structure we will never get to see again the amazing 1:1 Natal full body tracking ^^ :

Now did you even watch CES? Firstly the very same video goes on to say that Natal is the only product of it's type to actually realtime track the entire body. Unlike other products in the field ( clearly referring to Eyetoy ) where he says " Until now, if you wanted to measure the movements of parts of somebody's body you'd need some kind of device like a remote ( wii ) or a marker ( Eyetoy + wand ). The player doesnt need to fit their actions with the technology like before. Natal changes for the player.

Now for the BIGGEST statement in the video. EXACTLY THE SAME STATEMENT AS AT E3 09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

50% Hardware and 50% Software. Oh sh*t the article in OP loses all credibility. It obviously hasnt lost anything since E3. So either the decision was made to lose some chip 2 or 3 years ago. Or no chips have been lost at all. Becasue it's the same as said at E3. Not 40& Hardware not 30 - 70 it's still as of Jan 06th 50-50.

Oh and Natal tracks 48 points of your body. Confirmed. Sigh.

Project Natal, the camera thing for the Xbox 360 that tracks you every movement and lets you ‘interact’ with ‘things’ (hi, Mylo) has ‘dropped a chip’ according to GI this afternoon. The chip, responsible for managing Natal’s ‘bone system’ will be replaced by a software solution to save costs whilst still hopefully maintaining that hallowed 100ms lag. The responsibility for doing whatever the ‘bone system’ chip actually did now falls on one of the 360’s Xenon processors, taking up valuable clock cycles and other technical stuff.

Richard Leadbetter, editor of Digital Foundry said that “the full Natal hardware/sensor combo always looked like an expensive proposition in a market where Microsoft really needs to turn a profit. The notion of offloading the processing to the 360 CPU in the name of lower costs and easier upgradability makes sense. Patching up older games to run with the new hardware now looks rather unlikely unless they have the CPU time to spare.” Sounds like the move has cut costs but limited the scope of the system a little.

Source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/01/07/natal-drops-a-chip/

Please feel free to see CES 2010 on Natal. The only software Natal has is for limb interpretation and joint angles. Thats it. Confirmed by M$ less than 24 hours ago. Close the goddamn thread.