70-80% of Publishers Working on Natal Games
According to Robbie Bach, the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft, around 70 – 80% of the publishers in the world are already working on games for Project Natal.
“Part of the reason we showed Natal at E3 – which is actually a little bit risky to be honest because it’s a new technology, very cutting edge and relatively early in its development – is that we wanted third-party publishers to know that it was real and we wanted them to have developer kits and to get them working on it.”
“We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace.
“Xbox games don’t go away; you have to think of all this as additive. I think it adds to the beauty of what’s going on.”
I sure hope this is true, because the bigger the launch library for Natal, the quicker we’ll be able to tell if it really is the next best thing in gaming or just an overblown pile.
