Project Natal “Needs 4 Metres” – “American Homes Only”

Hell, it looks like anybody who wants to game in a normal sized bedroom is pretty damn screwed already.

4 meters is huge. for the average joe, that's usually the size of their own bedroom or mancave.

looks like only the rich living in spacious housing would be taking full advantage of natal.

Well, Natal's physically impossible for me, not that I planned to get it or Move. My room is too visually intricate anyway, I'm sure...

I actually game at a PC desk, so I have to switch seats to the back of the room to play Wii too, but it does work if I do that.

Ohhhh, Microsoft. You so crazy.

Umm... 4m(METERS) is about 13ft(FEET).

And it's depth. So, not sure about the width. I'm guessing as long as it's 4m deep, it doesn't matter your room is 1m or 15m wide.

Well this was designed by americans for the american family.

I doubt microsoft cares much if the japan can acclimate because it probably already knows Japan isn't exactly teh friendliest of countries embracing xbox.

I live in Russia and I have more than enough space in my living room. All I have to do is fold a couch. So, too bad for you guyz. And yeah, I repeat - it's MY living room. Har har har.

I dont have that space. I live in a very small apartment. But i have a Hayabusa from 2008 and a Subaru WRX from 2009. Much more fun.

My haya is 2008 not 2007.

like they care..
they still thinking we are yellow monkeys

I don´t have that space. I live in a very small apartment. But i have a Hayabusa from 2007 and a Subaru WRX from 2009, better than any game platform.

I love the "USA" floorplan. Seriously wtf, 90% of the people do not have a house that nice.

Is too much space to do the ridicule!.
Perhaps these are the requirements for a virtual orgy xD

"but in urban dwellings throughout much of Asia and Europe such spaciousness cannot be taken for granted"

Not entirely true unless you are refering to most Japan n HK houses

Alot of Asian homes have dedicated entertainment room with beef up sound system n everything

4 metres for this shit? Microsoft is so fucked up...

I never get this shit... If I wanna have fun standing up I'd go run outside or something...(I don't actually like running but you get the point).

Mixing moving around with video games is like mixing martial arts with wheelchairs. Way to go America.

Not everybody in America has this kind of space, damnit.

I'm a New Yorker, so any apartment containing 16ft square space unbroken by furniture here costs a fortune, like in the high hundreds of thousands or in the millions. God help you and your bank account if you want to get a house with a space big enough so that you can have a 16ft square space after furniture is placed.

The only time living gets affordable is if you start looking for places under 400sq ft total (like where I live now). There is NO space in my apartment for something like this, as NO room in my apartment was 16sqft to begin with when we moved in, and now that furnishings are in place, we have no place to place furniture even if we wanted to move it.

Heh... metrehs.

"urban dwellings throughout much of Asia and Europe"
Actually if you look at any statists you will see that european houses are in average 35% bigger that american

Put it on the ceiling

So the field of vision is a cone 13ft long and 13ft wide by 8ft high at the base. So at a more reasonable amount of free space you would have to be under 4ft tall to have it be able to read your arm movements while you jump around in front of it. Seems kind of pointless.

Wow! All of you guys are much smarter than Microsoft! Are you really sure that they would be dumb enough to require that much space?

Wow THIS EYETOY RIP OFF IS COMPLETELY FAIL MICROSOFT IS RELEASING A THING WHICH SONY ALREADY DID 8YRS AGO DUG !

Oh fucking waaaah.... I live in a small-ass studio condo in Seattle and I can still manage 13 feet from couch to TV.

So, let me get this straight, you need a 4x4m clearing of space to play Natal games? I don't get why you couldn't manage with a smaller space when all the Natal is doing is picking up movement?

Does Natal really need 16 square-meters of space to tell if you're waving your hand?

I really doubt Microsoft is stupid enough to think it would work with a required 4x4m space. That basically shrinks their potential consumer base down to a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the common populace.

That basically means no tightly populated urban communities will have the space required to play the game. The huge buyer demographic of college students is immediately tossed out of the window. New York? Forget about it. All of Asia? Nope.

Who is going to program for something like that when you're selling your game to a fraction of a fraction of your base? And before some XBox360 fan comes out to tell me that Natal is just another way to experience games and doesn't demand software programmed specifically for it, if it doesn't have those titles justifying its existence, it's only going to fade into obscurity.

Now not only poor people cant afford this, middle class also cant because of the space needed.

Maybe it can be par with the Atari 5200

Damn that American house looks nice. I wish I had a bedroom with a walkway leading to a study overlooking a garden.

I can't help but feel like they've messed up.

This has been confirmed false.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/107/1079611p1.html

It might work in arcades.

even if this was true you could just put a lens from something like binoculers in front of it

I live in America and my room is plenty big enough for this. So is every other room in my house. And most of my friend's houses.

unless u live in a box like japan its no problem, anyways i would want to be kicking and punching stuff in an area less than 13 feet.

At least they did not shamelessly copypaste Wii remote just like Sony does...

It's a good peripheral for eroge... hmmm....

The Japanese gamer is screwed by Microsoft

There is an 80% chance the 4x4m guy is from Dumbfuckistan.(USA) xD

I'll to push a table back a bit, but it seems like I have enough space. Large living rooms are a bitch to heat up during winter, but it's good to know they have their positive points too. ^^

what can u say. Microsuck is from the US

Hell, even my US house's living room isn't that big. I'd have to move the recliner, couch, coffee table... I'd have to basically empty the room, and even then I'm not sure if it'd be enough space.

that counts me out, I play at my desk about 1-3 feet away at most from my screen.

This is probably the maximum limitation of project Natal's fail becuase not only trying to cash in on a Wii gimmick but by limiting the space in which to play with the device would affect the sales of the product since not everyone owns a massive living room.

I know i do but the point is that the whole idea of a device that acts similar to that of a Wii controller is quite questionably stupid and is nothing more than a cash in ideal for casual gamers.

I hope you're trolling..

Looks like I'll need to make room for a ps3.

No one's gonna buy this in europe.
Do they have any idea how high the cost per square meter is in large cities here?