Nintendo Said No to Natal in 2007

I struggle to see what kind of games would work with this, i will have to wait untill i see some games before passing judgement on this.

I read on Kotaku that Iwata was unconvinced by what the tech could do and was not sophisticated enough. If true I dont see why nintendo was so taken back by the wii remote without motion plus.

As for the price its called taking a loss. Big multi billionaire companies do this for long term profit.

I still dont get how this would work for FPS, racing, fighting, unless your glued on the spot. I dont want to mimic moving around. A nun chuck is needed.

This was reportedly 2007. That's post-Wii. It's not like they went with the Wiimote in favor of this.

Both Natal and the Sony wand will crash and burn because they're not standard peripherals packed-in with the console. There are no instances I can think of where an added-on peripheral that some games require is released more than half-way into a console's life-span and does well. Impressive tech, but it is just tech. They'd bee better off just continuing development and then launching their next machine with it.

It's too much of a big change this far into a console's life, in my opinion. Can't see either doing very well. Who's going to make games for it? I know Graeme is involved with Milo, but Lionhead are just owned by Microsoft. Can't see any independent developers going anywhere near the PS3 wand or Natal. Wide-births all round, probably.

I see the current-gen project as a training for the next gen. They want to have the tech out to see what sells, what works.

I guess Nintendo has it easier, they only have to include spiffy graphics and they're competing with the big brothers.

Natal is wonderfull, but imho you still need to hold *something*
This is for;

a) You need a trigger button of some sort for generic action.

b) The feeling that your not just waving your arms about. (that wiimote is a sword, or a club etc...without holding something it just isnt the same)


Also, most importantly, without a nunchuck or analogue stick, its impossible to map charecter movement to anything sensible.

Really REALLY you need an analogue stick.


That said, full body and headtracking can massively enhance games. But not on its own.

And I sincerely hope they DO it, too. Perfectly said, that's all they have to do. And it'll be easy for them because the technology is there and has been there for a while. If they don't jump on that... that's just a very poor decision.