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Natal Marketing Effort Targeting Women's Magazines

You know those women's magazines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan that promise BIG SEX NEWS every single month? Well, if a report's to be believed, they're going to be delivering BIG NATAL NEWS as the product nears release.

ClownBelt5180d ago

I'm sure many Xbox 360 hardcore fans will enjoy Cooking Mama.

Bungie5180d ago

nah, that's just shows that everyone will need a 360 in their lives

more sales for M$ = Win for the 360 = More awesome games = happy 360 owners

we won5180d ago

LOL

Creeping on WiiFit country here. It's safe to say there will be fitness software at launch but without all the pricey peripherals. Natal is going to be huge.

n4gn4gn4gn4g5180d ago (Edited 5180d ago )

EA has already confirmed that they are bringing EA Active to Arc and Natal.

To the phantom disagree FFS:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009...

Quote:

Peter Moore confirmed that his teams were working on how to bring the mega-successful EA Sports Active franchise to PS3 and 360, taking advantage of the PS3 Motion Controller and Project Natal respectively.

"Absolutely," Moore said. "Natal is the perfect example of what you could do there. If you could imagine EA Sports Active done via Natal ... and we are working on that right now, we saw Natal a couple months ago and we started thinking about how we could bring health/wellness and fitness to a Natal-type experience. Same with Sony with the motion controller, how can you utilize what they showed on Tuesday to bring fitness to that. But I think Natal is a huge opportunity."

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evrfighter5179d ago

that's actually a smart move by M$

menoyou5179d ago

Xbox is ruining gaming I think. All these casual games like Halo and Guitar Hero, advertising on MTV and Burger King, developers gimping games just so they'll be equal on the Xbox, etc.

What a sad generation. And now when they market these gimmicky Natal games like Nintendo did with their waggle, things will get even worse because the technology is too laggy for serious gaming.

Keith Olbermann5179d ago

so many claimed it would be the next revolution in gaming....well...what do they think now???

haqshot5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

This headline made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

Edit: I agree with Saaking below.

Saaking5179d ago

You 360 owners do understand that if MS succeeds with Natal they'll go the casual route just like Nintendo? If I were you I wouldn't be hyping Natal up. If successful, it could destroy this false hardcore image you have of the 360.

rockleex5179d ago

For women.

Oh wait, the Wii already did it.

captain-obvious5179d ago

thats sooooooooooo hardcore \s

up tell now we have heard absolutely NOTHING hardcore about NATAL
the only thing is fable 3 and that is partly integrated (mini game) that you can skip
just like sixaxis motion controlled sniper in Killzone2

everyone should get this in to their heads
motion controls WELL NEVER get in to hardcore gaming

Anorexorcist5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

Every revolutionary gaming peripheral in history has had a news story published right next to a Midol ad.

It looks like MS is aspiring in launch the Wii 2 before Nintendo can.

raztad5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

LOL@evrfight

It's amazing how dude changes the tune when the article is about something MS.

Ontopic: Obviously Natal is not targeting gamers. MS is interested in a piece of the non-gamer/casual market. I just hope the whole control-less/motion controller thing dont affect my gaming experience.

Bzone245179d ago

If anyone wants to find every ps3 fanboy on N4G, all you need to do is look in a Natal article comments section.

tronz5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

Their PS3s and PSN are not working properly. Makes you wonder if PSN is down more often then it's reported.

Micro is really going after the casual crowd. Microsoft already has the hardcore down packed, the current 360 base loves buying gaming related products not much marketing is required in the hardcore realm.

captain-obvious5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

If anyone wants to find every xbox360 fanboy on N4G, all you need to do is look in a PSN crashing or a GOW3 article comments section.

see what i did there ?

rockleex5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

I think you meant to say "360 fanboys" instead. But you don't even need to look in GOW3 or PSN articles, just look at PS3 articles in general.

@tronz

How can it be down more often than reported? If its down and not a scheduled maintenance, people WILL report it on internet websites, forums, and to Sony.

Although my friend is having problems with his PS3, my PS3 has not had any problems at all. Only reason why I'm on N4G is because my brother's playing Heavy Rain on it and its a Sunday night with not much to do.

Now the only reason why I'm in THIS article though, is to add to the claim that Natal will not be able to cater to the hardcore. Lag and inaccuracy will keep the 360 from being able to deliver a hardcore game based SOLELY on Natal input.

Instead of just arm waggle games, we'll now have body and limb waggle games.

Bzone245179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

"If anyone wants to find every ps3 fanboy on N4G, all you need to do is look in a PSN crashing or a GOW3 article comments section.

see what i did there ?"

Ok...but my point was that they are all here too. Not really sure what your point is.

Lol @ rockleex trying to explain why he's trolling a Xbox 360 article.

beardpapa5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

Imagine a commercial showing a WiiFit look-alike but.....

"Now you can exercise without the controller!"

and you see this woman doing yoga and stuff while using the Natal.

Jesus christ just use that money and get a 2yr membership at 24hr fitness instead. It's cheaper and it's a real workout. Plus she'll probably get hit up on by guys and can enjoy her little girls-get-together and jamba juice like all the other OC moms and beverly hills chicks at their Equinox.

rockleex5179d ago

The half joke I left in my first post did not really explain my opinions about Natal not catering to the hardcore, so I decided to expand upon what I said instead of leaving it as a joke.

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commodore645179d ago

lol @ ^^^
The above comment has been scheduled for deletion.

On topic:
It's no secret that MS's first round of natal games will be family oriented and fun, rather than hardcore.
I am not sure why this is such a big deal to the ps3 trolls, as MS announced as much just recently:
http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/...

It stands to reason that the Natal hardware must appeal to the mass market. After it has some market penetration, we can expect to ee some innovative titles.

Of course, none of that reasoning matters to the ps3 fantrolls on here.
They just want it to fail in any way possible so they can feel better about all the psn problems they have been having lately.

The Maxx5179d ago

Not sure why you are getting disagrees. What you said is EXACTLY right.

Oh wait...ya I guess I do understand why you are getting disagrees....It's because you are right....

commodore645179d ago

@ themaxx

Yeah, exactly dude.
I have some sad stalker on here, possibly two, with mutiple accounts who seem to follow me around and press disagree no matter what I write.

It's just amazing how some geeks start frothing at the mouth and get obsessive as soon as their delusions of grandeur are dissolved with the naked truth.

I swear some people on here exhibit classic symptoms of mental illness, maybe even asperger's syndrome.

Why can't we all just grow up and accept the truth without getting all nasty and childish about it?

The Maxx5179d ago

Ya that's the problem. I don't write too much anymore on this site as there is just too much ignorance from a particular group that plagues this site. This site is run by them. I just lost faith that some of the people on this site can be educated and have their eyes opened to truthful matters.

I commend you on your efforts at tolerating the comments and ignorance splashed around this site. Keep up the good work...you and the other couple of guys on this site trying hard to get the masses on this site to open their eyes deserve recognition.

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n4gn4gn4gn4g5180d ago

SONY advertised their dildo wand in Cosmo no?

Parapraxis5179d ago

At least it's got multiple uses.
I'd like to see a girl try to stick Natal ....nvm

evrfighter5179d ago (Edited 5179d ago )

you're right the ps3 dil...erm..wand has the 360 beat in that dept.

enjoy it fanboys

lol

frankymv5179d ago

lmao at the responses above

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Model5179d ago

<<<<<< bungie sure looks forward for some wild cooking, just dont mind the lag

3sq5179d ago

Painting program, Milo and Avatar shoes!!!

They are all there for Bungie. Hehehe.

4point7BillionLoss5179d ago

look how well wii fit sold ... a whole untapped market of fat old ladies bought millions of copies of wii fit ...

NATAL will be offer an even better work out without having to stand on a stupid wii fit board ....

it's about NEW MARKETS which will ship consoles ....

PS3 will be 10 million unitws behind once natal is released and droids are too stupid to realise it.

nygamer285179d ago

Annoying 12 year old ask his mom to get him natel,she says no,reads glamour magazine says to herself "wii fit with no control" then she goes and buys project natal,money in the bank for microsoft

Heartbroken-Menace5179d ago

This is surely not an indicator of shovelware...

Keith Olbermann5179d ago

nope..she will realize she already has a wii with five or six exercise games she barely uses and say..meh.

swiftshot935179d ago

I can already feel the marketing storm that MS is going unleash for Natal and Reach. I personally think Natal is going to suck though.

Britney Spears5179d ago

For reach they wont advertise that much. maybe more than odst but not nearly in the same level as Halo 3 since reach is not a real Halo game.

DARK WITNESS5179d ago

@ Britney Spears

please explain.... how is Reach not a real halo game ?

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Good list..hoped to see Street Fighter 5 there..and it is.

Vits1d 22h ago (Edited 1d 22h ago )

Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.

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Every game in the last 2 decades...

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