Comments on: The Parts Of Project Natal

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:33:40 +0000

honestly I don't see what everyone is so excited about. Personally I think it makes you look like an idiot while playing, the driving game made that girl look like a 5yr old pretending to drive a race car. The whole Natal thing looked like this to me : watch @ about 2:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqTt4VXm584&feat...

Not that I like Nintendo's or Sony's take on motion but at least I still get a controller. I don't see many 360 owners buying this (outside of the zealots, you know the MS version of the Nintendo fans who bought WiiFit because Nintendo made it)

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:33:40 +0000

By: daizyujin

daizyujin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:07:10 +0000

I was thinking along the same range. The fact that it is only being shown behind closed doors had me wondering about how early the tech is in development. By the same token though, on the show floor, I would imagine voice recognition would be pretty hard. E3 has always struck me as a loud place.

By: daizyujin

daizyujin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:04:58 +0000

I give them credit on how ambitious the idea is, but it is too early to tell how well it works.

Afterall, has anybody had even close to the experience that Nintendo was playing up the Wii Remote for?

Time will tell, but this falls into the same problem area that Wii Motion + does. Only this will for sure cost a whole lot more. Then again you will only need one.

By: daizyujin

daizyujin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:51:53 +0000

Of course you are skeptical, it isn't made by Nintendo.

By: kryptonics

kryptonics — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:49:29 +0000

I'm excited about this technology, but they make it look too easy. I'm curious to what the learning curve will be like and how many gestures are misread or accidentally picked up.

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:05:14 +0000

I'm skeptical, too. I'll wait for body-on impressions from people. I think we're too early to be trying to create games without controllers at all.

Edit: That bit about Mattrick saying they've had positive reactions from developers? Yea, not completely buying it. Even Spielberg said he hadn't started working with it yet. He was on stage for PR, nothing more or less. I don't see any compelling software for this thing coming any time soon.

By: Willie

Willie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:37:49 +0000

Wonder how long it would be until we witness the first incident where someone literally punches down a TV.

I was just thinking…it was hard enough for me to control a wheel with Mario Kart Wii's wheel, but it's gonna be frustrating when you're just holding air.

One more thing – is it just me, or is it messed up that they show a kid skateboarding on nothing after they revealed Tony Hawk's Ride?

By: fallen

fallen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:28:15 +0000

Color me skeptical.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:02:49 +0000

lol, I was gonna say the same thing, the kid jumping on skating board.. this is worse than DDR at home tearing down the house. Also you need to have a pretty spacey living room to play this w/ all the kicking. This would be fun for kids and the whole family I guess. The voice and movement recognition are kind of cool though, I watch Netflix w/ my 360 a lot.

It depends how this would applied to other things that I would be interested in. Wii Fit is $90 and no way am I getting that.

By: denpanosekai

denpanosekai — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:47:12 +0000

Yeah if my neighbors upstairs get this, I'll have to pull out my good old baseball bat.

This whole thing makes me want to throw up.