project natal sensor xbox 275x300 Project Natal Given Release Date of November 2010

What is this Wii you talk about? Never Heard of It.

MCV UK is reporting that their contacts at Microsoft have given a release date of November 2010 for Project Natal. It will have a Price tag of £50 (~$80) and will release with 13 first party games.

I find it funny that there are so many who make fun of the Wii for its motion controls and here we have Microsoft and Sony making their own motion control systems. I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

So while I will probably get one, I just don’t see the Shooter Box Xbox 360 as a great platform for this type of system. Will they at least start making multiplayer games that don’t require an Xbox Live subscription? Doubtful. I couldn’t even get any XBOX arcade games (See Virtual-On) that don’t require LIVE for multiplayer. I really think one of the big reasons the Wii has done so well is that all multiplayer games can be played from the same system. Among my friends I have not found a single multiplayer game for the Xbox that we are all willing to buy multiple copies of to play over LIVE.

So I predict they may get some good sales at first but that it will not expand far beyond the initial 13 game release.

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8 Responses to “Project Natal Given Release Date of November 2010”

  1. Dan Furnas on 12 Nov 2009 at 10:51 am #

    So….you looking forward to Halo with a Natal-based targeting system, and Call of Duty with a Natal-based targeting system, and Forza with a Natal-based targeting steering system?

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  2. Greg Barbe on 12 Nov 2009 at 1:13 pm #

    I already have that. Its Called Metroid Prime Trilogy and Mario Kart :P

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  3. Jacob on 14 Nov 2009 at 3:37 pm #

    I dont believe xbox is Imitating I think that they saw an opportunity to draw the same audience that the wii had to the xbox. NATAL will widen the age group of xbox users.

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  4. Dan Furnas on 15 Nov 2009 at 8:12 am #

    So we should be looking forward to 8-year-olds calling us gay slurs on XBox Live instead of 13? Zing!

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  5. Greg Barbe on 15 Nov 2009 at 9:04 am #

    It all ready happens Dan and it’s just gonna get worse. The parents who don’t know are in for a big surprise. And then the complaints come in to the FCC. Then Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman will start their Video Game trials again. Then we’ll have the same damn censorship systems that Australia has. The lack of violent content will cause everyone to bottle their rage. This rage will eventually be unleashed on the unsuspecting public. Then the riot police will have to bust some heads. Rioters will shoot back. Martial law will be invoked. The militia’s around the country will launch a counter strike while screaming “We told you they would do this eventually!!!!” Texas will take the opportunity to secede. Mexico will take over the desert states with the army of illegals they’ve been infiltrating with for years. The government will have no choice but to glass the place to restore order. The Ruskies will mistake this as a first strike attack and will unleash their arsenal. Our systems will automatically counterattack and the whole world will die in the fire of nuclear war, or the cold of nuclear winter. Then the cockroaches will take over. Eventually evolving in to a space faring creature that takes over the entire universe. Is this what you want. Some stupid little cockroach getting to bang sexy space aliens instead of us. Are you insane. Natal must be stopped. Won’t someone think of the space ass?

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  6. Jacob on 15 Nov 2009 at 10:11 pm #

    The begining sounds like the plot for COD: MW 2.

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  7. Greg Barbe on 16 Nov 2009 at 9:51 am #

    Sounds like an awesome game. So do you get to nuke Hillary or is she an Invincible story character :P

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  8. Dan Furnas on 16 Nov 2009 at 11:58 am #

    I was seriously waiting for you to bust out the Ghostbusters reference by the end of that rant.
    “Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
    Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! “

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