Microsoft touts Bioshock as example of hardcore game that could work on system.
The lag experienced when playing 'bat and wall' game Ricochet on Project Natal is 'minimal' - despite viewers of TV presenter Jonathan Ross's playthrough on the game saying they noticed latency.
That's according to CVG sister site TechRadar, which got hands-on with the technology last week.
The site reported that Ricochet was 'a bit like a third-person version of the classic Arkanoid. Only you are the bat, thwacking the ball by waving your arms/legs/body about'.
Microsoft's Erin Hofto said:
"The Xbox 360 is thought of as a hardcore games platform, offering singular experiences. But Natal is a social technology, enabling us to introduce casual games we haven't been able to create before. It will be focused on fun, simple games. We don't know what third party publishers will do with the technology.
The most notable reveal would perhaps by the requirements of the Xbox 360 console itself. While Microsoft has insisted since the original unveiling of Kinect at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2009, then known as Project NATAL, that the device would be compatible with all Xbox 360 consoles, the revelation of a dedicated port included on the newly redesigned Xbox 360 model has sparked rumours of incompatibility, which were quickly debunked.
odd, i was led to believe it lacked an internal processor and so also needed a core to itself, if not 1-2 processing threads.
So pretty much the same spec as the PS Eye, although I thought the eye went up to 120 Hertz...
"Tracks up to 6 people, including 2 active players"
I think now its official that just 2 ppl can play at the same time.
Xbox Evolved:
"Microsoft is holding no breaks in making sure the general public knows all about Kinect. What cooler spot to also show it than with Jimmy Fallon? "
although i usually watch fallon. i'll have to catch an internet clip of it later.
was pretty funny. same demos they showed at E3 though. Nothing new. But they sure are marketing it quick.
wow first that girl's co-worker hosts the Kinect event and now she's her playing it. I see the audience Microsoft is definitely going after with Bieber, Cosgrove and McCurdy - teenage pop audiences.
All E3 was a buzz about the various announcements, one of which was the official unveiling of Kinect (previously known as Project Natal).
While Microsoft is holding the pricing close to their chest until a later date, you can now pre-order Kinect
It will never sell! If they try to sell it for $149 it will fail! People don't like console add-on's !
Sound Familiar? Crow doesn't taste so good does it people? It's lighting up sales charts and if it wasn't for the new, sleek, slim, sexy Xbox 360S, Kinect would be number 1 all over.
Where's Move at again? ahhh yeah bottom of the list. Slap slap slap slap slap
Seriously, I got flamed because I didn't have the perfect prices and added tax i'll fix that lets look at Natal.
Natal
150+taxes13% = 169.99
Or
40- (PSEYE)=Motion Control Games.
50+50 (Dual moves)- 50 if only needing one.
30- (Nunchuck)
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120-170!!! :(!
Taxes+13%
135-192!!!!!
Move is the better deal depending on which games you are playing and if you have PS eye (No one on my friends list does). But comeon, thats too much to shell out for a controller, the price better decrease! Natal should of been 50 dollars to compete properly with the likes of Wii.
Funny thing is according to an interview with Don on GTTV its gonna be REALLY cheap, this is a cut I read on a forum:
Geoff - "ok, are we gonna like the price though?"
Don - "uhhh, I think you are gonna ..really like the price"
Geoff - "are we gonna be surprised at how low it is?"
Don - "uh, we sat through the other competitors press breifings and people were very please with our position, I like being with Microsoft this holiday.
Link:
http://www.gametrailers.com...
at about 12:30 mins I think
even if this did sell fanboys dont see the point.
question isnt if its gonna sell, its will it work with hardcore games.
we all can see from the wii's success that if the company sells tons it doesnt mean that an onslaught of games for the gamer will come. no its simple stupid games that will sell and people will eat them up.
kinect will fail the gamer not the market.
MS knows how to lie to its consumers and advertise so that might work, but for the smart person who knows it doesnt work *the gamer* they wont buy it.....well besides the fanboy
"But Natal is a social technology, enabling us to introduce casual games we haven't been able to create before. It will be focused on fun, simple games. We don't know what third party publishers will do with the technology."
hmm...i guess Ms focus is casual games .
"It will be focused on fun, simple games" = No buy for me!
Get the bandages ready MS is going to need them when they get done shooting themselves in the foot. Would they really sell out their entire fanbase to go after the Wii crowd? Tune in to E3 2010 for the exciting results!
Microsoft TOUTED Bioshock as an example of a game THAT COULD work on Natal.
Instead of 'touting' how about showing?
Sony could tout that the PS3 could grow legs and that COULD take over the world
Oh course we have no proof of this because all we've seen is promo video with fake written all over it and a presentation where you draw and elephant. Didn't you say that older game COULDN'T be patched for Natal? Since A) Hard-drive space is VERY LIMITED and that download patch size also has to be small.
@Greenring
'I'm glad Microsoft takes their time when developing hardware, so that it can be as perfect as possible when it releases
Other companies would rush Natal out without proper testing, and there probably would be lag with Natal. But MS is making sure that its perfect before release'
Microsoft and the 360? Anyone want to talk about that? Or Vista? Shall we not mention those.
I think Natal is perfect for the Halo crowd really.
And off context, but Heavy Rain rocks.
Natal is just a rich mans PSEye. Both are stupid gimmicks that will soon be forgotten.