http://www.ripten.com/2009/06/13/rumor-project-natal-part-of-new-xbox-console/ Real Independent Press To Every Nerd Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ripten.com/2009/06/13/rumor-project-natal-part-of-new-xbox-console/comment-page-1/#comment-396648 felixawilliam Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:43:26 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=10400#comment-396648 I'm pretty sure we've seen this before when gaming became more about gimmicks and less about gameplay. It might be a novelty for awhile, but I can't see the core gaming audience wanting to dance in their living rooms instead of using a gamepad long term. I play video games as an offtime activity when I'm tired from work. I really don't see myself pretending to skateboard in front of a TV when I could just go grab my real skateboard and go outside. It's also unfortunate that Sony and Microsoft consider their hardware to be GTG for the foreseable future. How can anyone say there is still headroom available when almost zero games for either console can render at 1080p natively? Halo 3 didn't even make it all the way to 720p. We don't even have anti-aliasing and anistrophic filtering on many games as it is. And I still see tons of new games coming out that have to make visible compromises on draw distances and level of detail. There is PLENTY of room for improvement with new hardware. Maybe a longer cycle is appropriate this time around, but don't tell me that we are good to go for an 11 year cycle. <br><a href="http://www.homewavz.com/xbox_natal.html" rel="nofollow">Xbox Natal</a> I'm pretty sure we've seen this before when gaming became more about gimmicks and less about gameplay. It might be a novelty for awhile, but I can't see the core gaming audience wanting to dance in their living rooms instead of using a gamepad long term. I play video games as an offtime activity when I'm tired from work. I really don't see myself pretending to skateboard in front of a TV when I could just go grab my real skateboard and go outside. It's also unfortunate that Sony and Microsoft consider their hardware to be GTG for the foreseable future. How can anyone say there is still headroom available when almost zero games for either console can render at 1080p natively? Halo 3 didn't even make it all the way to 720p. We don't even have anti-aliasing and anistrophic filtering on many games as it is. And I still see tons of new games coming out that have to make visible compromises on draw distances and level of detail. There is PLENTY of room for improvement with new hardware. Maybe a longer cycle is appropriate this time around, but don't tell me that we are good to go for an 11 year cycle.
Xbox Natal

]]> http://www.ripten.com/2009/06/13/rumor-project-natal-part-of-new-xbox-console/comment-page-1/#comment-273055 greeneggsnsam Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:38:46 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=10400#comment-273055 Makes sense. The Xbox has been labelled a gamer's console and Microsoft aren't happy with that. the only way to steal Nintendo's customers is to rebrand it so the frat-boy connotations go away. Makes sense. The Xbox has been labelled a gamer's console and Microsoft aren't happy with that. the only way to steal Nintendo's customers is to rebrand it so the frat-boy connotations go away.

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