| Project Natal
Posted: 7/1/2009 3:25:12 AM | Blew my mind, provided they actually make it available to the public at a reasonable cost. Do you really think this will be out soon, or is this just another hype?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACt9R9z37U | |
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| Project Natal
Posted: 7/1/2009 6:48:32 AM | | i think its over hype and ive seen what sony has done with the ps3 in the past and it was shown to the world at the e3 2005 and it looked way better than natal and it was called eyeidentify where you talk to 2 woman in the game and you have to say hi and these woman say hi back and you would be on 100 tv screens through the game they even talk back but dont know what ever happened to it | |
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| Project Natal
Posted: 7/1/2009 5:13:29 PM | | Yeah this is very cool. I think if it works like they say, every home in the us will have one. The benefits, health wise alone, would be worth it for kids these days. I would love to see Call Of Duty 4 working with Natal. That is something I would definitely pay for. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 12:09:34 PM | As the name states, it's just a project. No where near a finished product. (example, does not work well with dark skinned people).
Bigger issue I see, is obviously it must be a heavily algorithmed design. Which makes me think, ok, where are these calc's being offloaded to? Since the 360 is maxed, either you lower the quality of the titles to compensate for the extra processor time, or you make it a external unit with on-board processing. Which jumps the price of the Natal camera to probably close to a low end 360.
Just seems like a microsoft toy that just isn't there yet, nor will be with current gen equipment. | |
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| Project Natal
Posted: 7/2/2009 12:18:47 PM | A) this is just banking on the interactivity of the Wii. Granted Nintendo didn't think of it first (the idea of accelerometers in game controllers was in arcades as early as 2001), but they packaged it in something affordable.
Project Natal has two things working against it. A) It's a XBox 360 project, therefore it's only going to have the attention of those foolish enough to purchase a 360 with the number of them that have been dropping like flies. B) it's attempting to create 3d movement using a 2d imaging system. That alone is going to require a whole lot of video processing. and, like jelydonut said...what's doing this processing? This can't be compatible with every game unless there's software to map movements to buttons entirely seperate from the game software...which would require a layer of abstraction almost demanding it's own hardware. Consoles are already maxed out...to make it as cheap as possible you're going to have poor performence or diminished gaming quality so you can free up enough resources to make that possible.
And, again, it's for the 360. "every home in the us will have one" is a completely inappropriate comment..that's like saying everyone should rush out and buy a Mac because 3 people think it's so much easier. Seriously. Not everyone is going to want to invest in a 360 for some second rate technology. You want pretty graphics with push-button gaming, you get a 360 or PS3 if you have more money than sense. If you want that extra level of physical exertion and interactivity, you get a Wii. You get the console that was designed for your type of gaming..and not some bolted on technology. | |
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| Project Natal
Posted: 7/2/2009 7:13:38 PM | | Minority Report minus the glove. It'll happen. | |
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| Project Natal
Posted: 7/3/2009 3:18:11 AM | | The 360 is far from being maxed by 90% of the titles out there. Sure some of them may max out the CPU, by the GPU in those things are insane and more than equipped to deal with image recognition algorithms. I honestly wouldn't use such a system as Natal unless I had a room where there was lots and lots of space for me to move around, from what I seen it's not to common people have that kind of room without moving some furniture out of the way. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2009 10:30:41 AM | | Subtlecaffeine..Comparing this technology to the the Wii is not accurate. Last time I checked the Wii still uses a controller! Dropping like flies comment doesn't add up. And owning an Xbox 360 is not foolish, it's the only platform opened up to game development for amateurs with a free IDE (for c#) from Microsoft. Can the Wii or Playstation do that..no! If you read my entire statement with the event that it works as they say...I see this revolutionizing the gaming industry. That's not "inappropriate", maybe farfetched, but still something we have not ever seen in gaming. To say it's "second rate technology" will be determined by the release of the product, but to say that without having ever seen it is ignorant. | |
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| Project Natal
Posted: 7/3/2009 1:06:20 PM | | I wonder if sex games will be developed for it? LOL | |
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