Is anyone else pissed at how Microsoft is pushing Natal onto the media at the moment? (The Today Show, Jimmy Fallon). If it wasn't already obvious that this is purely a manufactured pretense to slow down the Wii, it should be now.
Microsoft bought this tech to use as a blunt marketting weapon. It has nothing in common with the Xbox userbase, it has no traditional gaming applications, no release date, it barely functions for the few simple demos they've made for it, it's laggy, very imprecise, doesn't recognise what people are doing a lot of the time, struggles to even do the basic body recognition 3DV designed it for, has NO games announced - and yet it's off on the media circuit trying to convince people that THIS IS THE REVOLUTION YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
We've watched people rake Nintendo over the coals for the last 3 years, saying they're killing traditional gaming, casualizing the market, but those same people are swallowing this without any problem.
On the one hand you have Nintendo toiling away for years, and finally engineering practical, commercial applications of 1:1 motion gaming and making REAL progress that will shape the industry's games.
On the other, you have Microsoft's marketting budget applied to a ****ing smokescreen.
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I'm honestly quite angry the more I see MS try to hype this thing up, and preying on the guillibility of people who have seen the Wii do similar magical things, and assume that Natal is something substantial.
It's not the idea of Nintendo having competition. Bring on the better games, better hardware
if you can! Bring it on! That's what makes the industry great. It's the idea that a fake product can actually have an effect on people's perceptions if you have the money to back it up. That's what burns mah biscuits.
It's like watching two atheletes compete. One of them trains and puts in all the hard work and over time, through a series of ingenious exercises and diets and pure mental and physical focus, he sets the world standard. And then another one comes along with a videotape of themselves ****ing a unicorn and then literally flying down the track twice as quickly while wearing douchey dark glasses, and everyone cheering "Wing guy! Wing guy! Look he has wings!"
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