Sunday, December 6, 2009

project natal vs sony motion controller

for my first topic I've decided to throw my opinion into the giant food processor that is the Internet.
for starters lets talk about project natal.(if you unfamiliar with project natal i strongly suggest you google it before you read on)natal looks interesting but there are many thing that can't be done with it. like say, a first person shooter, which xbox has more than enough of. it seems to be for more casual experiences for that reason. second, this is very much like an advanced ps2 eye toy program. naturally since this is on the 360 it will be much more precise with its tracking but still its really treading old ground. third the PlayStation eye can already do most of this, look at eye pet, and there is sure to be more games like that soon. but natal does look pretty cool and we honestly don't know that much about it at the moment. on a related topic, that Milo video was entirely scripted and if peter molyneux wanted to really convince people he should have shown a live demo of it, which he claims he can, so why didn't he?

now we move on to Sony motion controller. now first we shall talk about the design its downright ridiculous but its a proto type so i think they'll fix that, and if they don't xbox fanboys will just attack and attack and attack. that's what xbox fanboys do best right?( in case your unclear fanboy, in video games, doesn't just mean that you like the console it means that absolutely hate every other console and make unfair arguments in your consoles favor)my first comment on natal was that there were things you couldn't do with it, cannot be applied here. i can't really think of anything you couldn't do with it, because it has an analog stick, a d-pad(i think) and an analog trigger. a lot of people say that this is copying off the wii, which in some ways it is but in most ways it isn't. it does have some of the same mechanisms inside like the wii has but for the most part the wii is more advanced in that area. the precision comes from the glowing ball the ps eye tracks.

whether you like natal or motion controller one thing is for certain, if either of these work the last reason to buy a wii goes right out the window.

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