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Originally posted by infinity HiGH Their long term goal has always been to take over the living room but the path they're taking to reach that is through the hard core gamers, who in turn branch out into tech-geeks, audiophiles, etc. The people that play Halo and many of the other Xbox 360 games are the same people that care about 720p, 1080p, Dolby Digital, multi-core processors, etc etc.

Microsoft is not just XBox. lol. If you don't want to game but use all the tools XBox has for media you just get a media center PC and have all the stuff the XBox also offers.

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I agree that Natal's goal is to diversify the audience but I really doubt it will do that. I just don't believe that the technology, however revolutionary it may be, will be applied well enough for the Natal to be a mass market hit. That is, unless they include it with every new Xbox 360 sold, as well as a collection of fun and addictive games. Then maybe it could work.

My guess is they are going to try Natal on XBox and include it for everything afterwords. (ie. media centre).

For simple games like what the Natal has shown in their presentation at E3. Natal will definitely succeed. However, when you get into more in depth games like shooters and such, I think the new Eyetoy will be better. Sometimes, you just have to press a button to do certain things. For example holding/shooting/swinging a sword or a gun won't be very practical on Natal, but on Eyetoy it will. Shooting a gun without a trigger would be wierd too.

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Originally posted by Dior Homme I beg to differ. Nintendo has always been and will be a pioneer in the industry. From being the first ones to add shoulder buttons, joysticks, rumble on their controllers and also come out with the innovative wii-mote, other companies will do many things similar to imitate them.

+1 their definatley the pioneers.

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Originally posted by DigiNut I see an emerging market of adult games that you can play using your penis.

your all over that eh DigiNut?

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Originally posted by BlueDestiny For simple games like what the Natal has shown in their presentation at E3. Natal will definitely succeed. However, when you get into more in depth games like shooters and such, I think the new Eyetoy will be better. Sometimes, you just have to press a button to do certain things. For example holding/shooting/swinging a sword or a gun won't be very practical on Natal, but on Eyetoy it will. Shooting a gun without a trigger would be wierd too.

Rumor is they sent the platform to developers so i interested to see what else they can do with it, other than talk to a virtual friend (kinda lame imo)or kick virtual balls. Ill save judgement for then, its cool though.