Xbox Natal to be New Console?

[Typhoid]

It would be a lot more smarter of them to release it for the 360 as is, then make improvements on it for the next next gen system.

[KillerGremlin]

Natal puts developers in a weird position. Do we develop for Natal and alienate the non-Natal people, or do we just stick with the 360. Microsoft depends on 3rd party, and it seems odd to release something that will divide the console base, especially at the end of the console's run. I think Natal at the very least has to be part of the next Microsoft console, but I'd like to think it plays a larger role in the future Microsoft console than it would on the 360. Mind you the thing isn't supposed to come out till 2010 at the earliest, so who is to say Microsoft doesn't unveil a new console next year or something?

Right now a lot of speculation is basically, "Natal is a Wii-competitor" and "They should release it first to see if it actually works."

I'm just gonna call bullshit on that second point. Natal better be fucking perfect when it comes out or it is going to fail. That is the end of the story. If it is buggy it will fail. Nintendo gets points for testing the hell out of the Wii and making sure it worked and worked well.

I agree that Natal is a Wii-competetor though. That much is true. But if you're competing with Wii I think you would practice smarter business than just throwing an add on to the 360. And this argument becomes incredibly suspect because Natal was the highlight of the Microsoft Press Confrence. If it wasn't such a big deal they would have only showed it for 5 minutes like the Sony Anal Wand. I think Sony maybe came up with a peripheral in an attempt to compete with the Wii, but I think Microsoft is looking to do bigger and better things.

[Typhoid]

Natal better be fucking perfect when it comes out or it is going to fail.

That's such a dumb statement.

Even if it's not perfect it will succeed pretty amazingly.
Remember how terrible the Wii was at launch? What successful Wiimote games does it have that are super fun? The Sports pack that comes with the system, and some games that have just recently been released. Most of the games you can just play with a normal controller. In the eyes of motion games, that's a pretty hard fail, yet it succeeds nicely.


The same will be said and done for the Natal. It will do really, really well. And why? Because nothing like it has been done before. Of course it won't be perfect. It will be good for the time. The NES was perfect for the time it was released, but now it blows hairy goat anus in comparison.

Nothing can, nor ever will be perfect, so saying it will fail unless it is - is just a dumb thing to say.

[KillerGremlin]

I figured since this was a hardware discussion (Project Natal is hardware, right?) it would be implied that I meant it better be perfect in regards to hardware, not software.

For instance, the Wii at launch did not have glitches or problems. It worked, dare I say, perfectly. Okay, perhaps "perfect" is a bad term to use. But in my mind, the Wii launch was executed near flawlessly in regard to hardware. I have a Wii, I have Wii Sports. In all my hours playing that stupid, addicting game, I have NEVER EVER EVER encountered an issue with my Wii-mote having tracking or registry issues.

Natal better work flawlessly in terms of hardware. It better do everything it promises and it better do that well. If it has glitches, errors, Red Rings of Death, or whatever, it will most likely be criticized and in my opinion be destined for failure.