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Subject: Microsoft's Natal: Not looking as good...
I'm not convinced Microsoft's Natal will be any good. This peripheral sounds too much like weird-for-the-sake-of-it me-too add-on to try and compete with Nintendo's successful Wii and DS, but created by someone who doesn't understand why these other systems are successful. If a bunch of non-game-playing suits sat around a boardroom with a few hardware vendors and brainstormed about that cool shit the other companies are doing, this is exactly what I imagine they'd come up with: Sony's Eye Toy, marketed as something all-new and amazing.
It's a webcam, OK? I am not impressed that Peter Molyneux is making some revolutionary new game for it, it's a webcam.
It was originally supposed to have its own processor, so that it'd look at you, think about what it sees, and communicate with the console. Well, to keep the cost down, they removed the processor making it, in effect, a webcam.
And the upshot of this is that the Xbox 360 will now see a 15% performance hit when you use the thing. Fifteen percent ain't no small amount.
So, at the risk of sounding like a bitter old crank, I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm not impressed by a me-too peripheral that sucks the processor juice out of my console so I can abuse Molyneux's virtual child.
It's a webcam, OK? I am not impressed that Peter Molyneux is making some revolutionary new game for it, it's a webcam.
It was originally supposed to have its own processor, so that it'd look at you, think about what it sees, and communicate with the console. Well, to keep the cost down, they removed the processor making it, in effect, a webcam.
And the upshot of this is that the Xbox 360 will now see a 15% performance hit when you use the thing. Fifteen percent ain't no small amount.
So, at the risk of sounding like a bitter old crank, I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm not impressed by a me-too peripheral that sucks the processor juice out of my console so I can abuse Molyneux's virtual child.
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