Xbox Natal (Coolest thing of life :O)

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/

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Oh, btw some people might need to install something, but it shouldnt take more than a minute. If the Xbox hasnt pwned the Wii hard enough already, this will certainly get the job done.

sucks, the martial arts game looked ok, but the rest? terribad.

The whole concept is rather interesting but unless the Natal System cost over 1grand and using something other than a camera and motion censor its not gonna live up to whats it claims to be, the responsiveness is going to be horrible, in one instance the girl is playing a racing game and shifts gears, at that distance for a system that only uses motion and a camera to detect such a small movement and for it to be fully responsive is ludicrous, for that distance it would have to have a wide spectrum which will cause it to glitch with other movements in the back round. Even the Wii can be unresponsive at times and your controlling the movement with your hand as if it were a wireless mouse, now you can only imagine the unresponsiveness and/or false responsiveness when its only one sided. I can only see this working with very simple games, that are slow passed and dont require complex or slight movments.

Now dont get me wrong I dont hate Xbox, I just like to stay away from cheap things, I personly dont like were consoles are going, PS2 is the newest system I would ever consider buying, but wont cause I already own one.

lumpy101 wrote:

The whole concept is rather interesting but unless the Natal System cost over 1grand and using something other than a camera and motion censor its not gonna live up to whats it claims to be, the responsiveness is going to be horrible, in one instance the girl is playing a racing game and shifts gears, at that distance for a system that only uses motion and a camera to detect such a small movement and for it to be fully responsive is ludicrous, for that distance it would have to have a wide spectrum which will cause it to glitch with other movements in the back round. Even the Wii can be unresponsive at times and your controlling the movement with your hand as if it were a wireless mouse, now you can only imagine the unresponsiveness and/or false responsiveness when its only one sided. I can only see this working with very simple games, that are slow passed and dont require complex or slight movments.

Now dont get me wrong I dont hate Xbox, I just like to stay away from cheap things, I personly dont like were consoles are going, PS2 is the newest system I would ever consider buying, but wont cause I already own one.

Well I am certain that it might have its problems, tbh, but we must remember that the device they show in the vid is most likely a prototype, especially considering that they havent even mentioned a release date for it yet, so Microsoft will probably look into these problems, if they havent done so already, during further development. Besides, I am pretty sure that they themselves have looked at the Wii motion sensor and thought about these problems, I mean after all, that is a key marketing technique, isnt it?

thevengeance wrote:

lumpy101 wrote:

The whole concept is rather interesting but unless the Natal System cost over 1grand and using something other than a camera and motion censor its not gonna live up to whats it claims to be, the responsiveness is going to be horrible, in one instance the girl is playing a racing game and shifts gears, at that distance for a system that only uses motion and a camera to detect such a small movement and for it to be fully responsive is ludicrous, for that distance it would have to have a wide spectrum which will cause it to glitch with other movements in the back round. Even the Wii can be unresponsive at times and your controlling the movement with your hand as if it were a wireless mouse, now you can only imagine the unresponsiveness and/or false responsiveness when its only one sided. I can only see this working with very simple games, that are slow passed and dont require complex or slight movments.

Now dont get me wrong I dont hate Xbox, I just like to stay away from cheap things, I personly dont like were consoles are going, PS2 is the newest system I would ever consider buying, but wont cause I already own one.

Well I am certain that it might have its problems, tbh, but we must remember that the device they show in the vid is most likely a prototype, especially considering that they havent even mentioned a release date for it yet, so Microsoft will probably look into these problems, if they havent done so already, during further development. Besides, I am pretty sure that they themselves have looked at the Wii motion sensor and thought about these problems, I mean after all, that is a key marketing technique, isnt it?

I understand what your saying but the problems I'm referring to cannot be solved with rigorous testing and software updates, the hardware itself needs to be changed and more needs to be added they need a mat, censors that attach to body parts for it to be fully responsive, the only way you can have a full response walking up to your 360 as freely as they show is if you were in a room that has cameras and censors giving the system a full 3D image of your movement witch isn't practicle. Adding $100 more to the price would be worth it to me if they threw in a mat and censors that connect to body parts, making unresponsiveness almost 0 and most likely completely eliminating false response, or if the extra censors and mat were optional.

Uhh, sounds like a updated version of the Eyetoy to me and knowing Microsoft, it will cost alot.

The new PS3 motion sensor controller is going to be more successful imo.