I love when companies do this...
"If we'd just come out with something that looks and feels like the Nintendo Wiimote, I think you could have fairly criticised us and said it was derivative. That's not the path we wanted to go down. We could have done that, but we wanted to reinvent the industry and revolutionise home entertainment. That's what we will achieve with Project Natal. ...The most important thing is this has nothing to do with Nintendo and Sony. This has everything to do with unlocking the potential of the industry and addressing the many millions of people – the 60 per cent of house holds who don't have a videogame console at all. That's the real opportunity for us." - Microsoft's Shane Kim
Do you think Natal is the one breaking down barriers in gaming? Or do you think perhaps it's just changing an already existing idea?
Honestly, they are rather naive to say it's their idea, and that they are the ones do do x, y, and z. I don't doubt Natal at all, but M$ is seeming a tad arrogant to me.
If Nintendo didn't come out with a console like the Wii, Microsoft and Sony wouldn't have done things like Project Natal. Microsoft can't really take full credit for Project Natal.
They really can't take credit for the basic foundation, but games like the Burnout demo are what's really going to push the motion idea, unlike another little hunk of plastic that's barely advanced anything.
But yea Microsoft is being arrogant bastards in this case and I really don't condone it.
What was more hilarious was Reggie's quote saying how he thinks Nintendo can (and will) win over the Halo and mature audience. I would suggest Reggie go back to comedy school because his punch lines need work.
It's great that these companies are trying to improve already existing ideas, not to mention make the ideas more available by giving variations to all console audiences, but they should stop lying about how their ideas are original or revolutionary. Glow Wands look sweet, but they're just Sony's Wiimotes (w/ WMP), and Natal is just an improved Xbox Live Camera, which in turn is just an EyeToy. On that note, I don't even see how Natal could be that big, considering neither of it's predecessors, one of which was on the same console, didn't do that great either.
I think they can take credit for how they execute their ideas.
I don't think they can take credit for the idea of getting gamers into the game. I do not believe Nintendo can take credit for this either.
Quote from: Macbeth on June 10, 2009, 12:37:27 AM
This has everything to do with unlocking the potential of the industry and addressing the many millions of people – the 60 per cent of house holds who don't have a videogame console at all. That's the real opportunity for us."[/b]
How does creating an expensive peripheral make gaming consoles instantly available to those less fortunate and in poverty ridden 3rd world countries?
Quote from: Mutilator on June 10, 2009, 04:29:25 PM
How does creating an expensive peripheral make gaming consoles instantly available to those less fortunate and in poverty ridden 3rd world countries?
Because that is totally what they meant, right? That is possibly one of the most ridiculous things I've read in a while.
Leave it to them to come up with such a foolish and contradictory pitch.
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