Microsoft Dismiss Natal Launch Rumours
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Article written by Raen in Xbox 360 News, on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 10:30.
Speaking with the guys over at Eurogamer during the launch event for yesterday’s update (wouldn’t it be nice if Sony did those kind of events for firmware updates?) Neil Thompson, the big boss at Xbox UK, stated that the rumours on Natal’s launch that emerged last week “…weren’t accurate, they were rumours. I’ve got nothing more to say about it.” Well that seems pretty conclusive then. Oh you want some more? Alright then.
The great thing about the rumours last week was that they were… well great. Whilst the launch window was a way off, a year away in November 2010, the pricing was apparently low and it looked like Microsoft and it’s “publishing partners” – I hate that phrase – had 14 titles lined up to launch alongside the motion sensing camera. So along with Thompson effectively squashing all of these rumours, we also get the information from him that Microsoft are “…still very much in the baking on Natal and there’s a lot of things to get decided on it.” when asked about whether the pricing information was accurate. So while the price has yet to be decided, hopefully Microsoft will notice how happy the rumour made everyone and won’t stick with their normal accessory pricing stratergy of “lets triple the cost”.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the information though is that he refered to baking Natal. Could Natal be some kind of delicious cake? For me that’s more than just another selling point on the accessory, and grabs my interest even more. Hopefully Sony take note and start to produce consumable accessories as well. Or what if Activision followed suit and made those plastic instruments out of cake? You’d never have old equipment cluttering your house again.
Finally it’s not all doom and gloom about the rumours. Whilst he didn’t confirm that the figure of 14 launch titles from the likes ofActivision, EA, Sega and Ubisoft he did state that they’ve “… shared this technology with our worldwide development partners now for some time, and the pace with which they’re developing the kind of experiences is just amazing,” and that they’re “…committed to ensure those experiences are unique, compelling and very exciting right from the outset.” Well at least that’s something. Hopefully Microsoft’s defintion of unique, compelling and exciting matches their audience’s.
Source: Eurogamer
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carlosfilippsen | 18/11/2009 10:34
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I doubt it will be anywhere as cheap as the rumours said it would be. They are even trying to make money by trying to introduce some bulls*** xbox live platinum subscription. So Natal will be anything but cheap.
Raen | 18/11/2009 10:37
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Microsoft haven’t said anything about Platinum, that’s Pachter and he’s frequently wrong.
carlosfilippsen | 18/11/2009 10:41
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I still think Natal will be anything but cheap and as the comment below says, I cant see anything with Natal that Eyepet doesnt do already.
Tuffcub | 18/11/2009 10:39
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Havent seen anything with Natal that Eyepet doesnt do already – apart from it tell you what colour shirt you are wearing.
Raen | 18/11/2009 11:25
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We’ll see, I have high hopes for it. Plus it’s Sony, you know the tech willl never go further than that one game.
seedaripper1973 | 18/11/2009 11:32
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er..the ‘wand’ says hi…
Raen | 18/11/2009 12:02
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I wasn’t talking about the Wand :S I was talking about the Eyepet.
cc_star | 18/11/2009 12:22
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I’ve had my PS3 Eye since it came out – very disappointing support by Sony
It’s a real missed opportunity by Sony, because they could already have had 2 or 3 packs of games like the PS2 EyeToy games, and that would have led to the public perception that all MS are doing with Natal is that they are copying Sony several years late (Obviously they’re not because the tech is many times more advanced, but that wouldn’t really affect the public perception)
Sony should hang their heads in shame about the PSEye
bunimomike | 18/11/2009 10:57
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“Hopefully Microsoft’s defintion of unique, compelling and exciting matches their audience’s.”
From the people that brought you Vista. I shan’t hold my breath.
bajere | 18/11/2009 11:02
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HAHAH
Anthony72 | 18/11/2009 11:11
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Ah the operating system that means it takes 10 minutes for my laptop to turn on.
carlosfilippsen | 18/11/2009 11:40
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yup thats the one. 20 minutes in some cases. Im glad I got windows 7 now.
bajere | 18/11/2009 12:26
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glad you got windows 7…im glad i got OSX
lol
my last PC was ME then XP for about 2months, then bin.
cc_star | 18/11/2009 12:43
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Can’t understand criticism of any MS OS, other than ME obviously. Seems a snobbish attitude to me, and an incorrect one at that.
XP the best OS ever? Arguably, yes.
Vista – people really jump on the bandwagon with this, there’s nothing wrong with it, however if you have XP then Vista really is non-essential.
Win 7 is fantastic and a true replacement for people who own XP.
I’d never trust Apple with a whole OS, clucking iTunes & Quicktime being the system hogs they are, is bad enough, they can’t even make them patchable and release new version practically every week. Apple are a design and UI company, nothing more.
BadBoyBoogie | 18/11/2009 15:59
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I’m going to be upgrading from Vista to Win 7 soon, so good to hear it being highly rated.
nickerton | 18/11/2009 16:16
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Seriously, I have a hate on bias againts Microsoft lately but I will be the first to say, Windows 7 is awesome;
I built a new machine lately:
i5 Quadcore Processor at 4×2.76ghz
ATI Radeon Saphire 4890 1 GB video
8 GB DDR3 Corsair RAm
1 TB HDD
Coolermaster HAF Case (http://www.inserzionavy.com/images/HAF.932.jpg)
600 WT PWSPLY
AND… Its running Windows 7, I am in IT and I have done every single thing I could to try and make it crash, I cant, Windows 7 is what Windows Vista was going to be but Vista was rushed out early like the 360. Long story short, buy Windows 7, for petes sakes all my parts were custom even my wireless N card and during the Windows setup it asked me “Which wireless network do you want to connect to?”.
All of my drivers were installed first boot. Amazing.
scavenga | 18/11/2009 11:36
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tg81/1309727143/
shields_t | 18/11/2009 11:47
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I’m holding out for Natal and onion pies, never been too much of a cake fan.
hazelam | 18/11/2009 16:44
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what is with this recent cake obsession on tsa?
you guys on a diet or something?
Raen | 18/11/2009 16:52
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Cake is awesome. And what do you mean recent?
S1nghSat1onal | 18/11/2009 17:50
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I dont see what all the hype is about really. Its a combination of the Playstation Eye and a wii remote. Nothing very orginal since Sony was the first to actually use it on the eye toy back in the day. If you want to kick at your TV go ahead, but if it breaks you cant blame Microsoft