Which means about 4 are not working on any Natal games. Including Sony, Nintendo and Valve. I'm gonna guess Level 5 as they're pretty small.

That means there should be at least 20 natal-compatible games being currently designed. Doesn't seem like much to me, considering some of these games will only offer natal-controls as an option.

@ Scoobes

Valve? What about the Half Life Natal demo?

UbiSoft alone is working on 20 Natal games.

Lionhead two games, Milo & Kate + Fable III

Rare at least 3 games

EA at least 5 games...

I guess there will be 100 Natal games end of 2011.

Was that definately Half-Life? It was difficult to tell (although it did look Source powered). And I think Valve games are published by EA on 360 as opposed to PC where its DD via Steam. Weird issue.

Depends upon how you count though ...

As I implied on an earlier post, you can get a very high game count (or a high number of publishers supporting you) without any of these games being particularly meaningful support. Between ports of Wii and Eyetoy games, low budget downloadable games, and tacked-on alternate control schemes for XBox 360 games in production most publishers can claim to be releasing dozens of Natal games without supporting it enough to green light a single moderate budget game.

You might think I’m being pessimistic, but I can almost guarantee that Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy will be one of Ubisoft’s Natal games; and it will probably not be the only direct port, most of which will receive no major graphical or feature upgrades from the Wii version. Much like the Wii, for Natal to really be impressive you need games designed from the ground up to demonstrate why Natal is an improvement; if most of the content is ports from other systems or alternative control-schemes for XBox 360 games this won’t happen.

Natal is poised for success! I think (sarcastic remark) =)

I think a lot of people are really upset that there is nothing that might indicate a bad Natal release.

Seriously, right now, I can't think of anything that could have been better for a successful release of Natal. Media is going crazy, developers are supporting it big time, MS will advertise this like a launch of a new console, it will be implemented in the biggest WRPG on the markest (Fable)...

Still a lot of people try to find anything bad about it. Your post is one of them. The major support of 3rd party publishers might not be that great, because the quality might suffer. Your example is the Wii... We all know how bad the sales of the Wii were... Wait...

^^The worst thing that could happen after all of this hype is that the software doesn't live up to it. MS better have some neat shit up their sleeves. It will really only take like 1 or 2 games for the public to go nuts over it. And if that game is included with Natal, it will really take off.

MS is going to have to do some BIG things with this to get the attention off of the Wii. I will wait to pass judgment on this until it comes out. In any event, this will not push the 360 past the Wii during this generation.