Wednesday, January 12

Controllers? Where We're Going We Don't Need Controllers

Microsoft has finally confirmed plans to launch the company's motion sensing peripheral known as Project Natal this October 2010.
Project Natal is a code name for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. What I don't get is shouldn't that be CFGAEE? Too bad that doesn't mean anything. Will have to work on that and get back to you.
So yeah the Xbox is basically taking the idea of wireless controllers with motion detection one step further and then some. Why bother with controllers at all?
Based on an add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands or presented objects and images. The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 360's audience beyond its typical gamer base and provide another dimension in entertainment when it was first announced at E3 in 2009. So if you were to kick you would actually have to kick, if you wanna reload your gun you need to do the reload motion. Using my super secret powers of foresight I predict more then a few bugs arising when this baby finally does come out.
Microsoft Saudi marketing manager Syed Bilal Tariq was asked when the device would be launching in Saudi Arabia and the marketing manager had replied that it would launch at the same time as the rest of the world.
Tariq also added that Microsoft would be in a position to confirm an exact date at E3 in June.
We can expect E3 will also announce a new, official, retail name for Project Natal in June. Maybe CFGAEE?
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