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Originally Posted by spadival  How come nobody has mentioned Project Natal? |
Both MS & Sony have been on the back foot ever since Nintendo broadsided them with the Wii & its Wiimote. Pre-E3 rumors hinted that MS would finally debut their own motion-sensing controller (leaked a while ago & code-named "Newton"), instead we got Natal.
If you ask me, Natal's too much into the future, too much like "Minority Report" (little wonder Spielberg's given it a
). In any case, Sony's had its Eye-Toy line of simple games for some time now & the only way for MS to upstage everybody was to go beyond simple motion sensing. With Natal, the biggest drawbacks would be game development complexity, lack of feedback, & cost. It could be a while before we see games that support Natal fully...
Anyway, with stuff like gesture recognition & 3D games, gaming a few years down the line should be quite "interesting", if not entertaining ! We've indeed come a long way from Space-Invaders & Pac-Man
