A former Microsoft boss has stated that he thinks Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal controller, rumoured to be dubbed “Wave,” will fail.
Scott Bayless, a former Microsoft studio manager who has held high level posts at Capcom, EA, Midway and Sega, is not confident about Microsoft’s handling of the controller, although he seems not criticise the hardware itself:
“When I met with Microsoft in 2008 to look at Natal I asked: ‘When will you integrate this into the 360?’
Their response was: ‘We’re probably going to wait and see on that.’ To which I said: Then you’re going to fail.'”
He goes on to explain that he thinks the controller will only serve to fragment the Xbox 360 market, not drastically expand it to families and little old ladies as Microsoft apparently hopes:
“Plays like this always fragment and the disincentive to developers is powerful; when I’m spending tens of millions on a game, the last thing I want to do is lose 90 per cent of my market.”
Natal just seems like a lost child in a giant mall trying to find his/her parents.
I expect to see third party companies do something like move all the games that were Wii exclusive and dump them into both Move and Natal just to get a quick buck. It seems that even after Sony explanation “make quality games, not shovel/s♥♥t/crap/donkeypenis-ware” they still don’t listen very well (this is why PSP is in a pickle.)
Truth be told, I was very interested in this when it was first shown at E3. I though, “wow we’re going to have a lot of great and innovative games to play.” Eventually my wide-eyed curiosity waned and I got to thinking, “exactly what kind of games can be made for this?” Remember those demos? Where exactly can they go from there?
… well… you can paint a giraffe instead of an elephant… or a tiger if you want more, like, action or something…
instead of balls, you could hit…hummm…. like.. more balls maybe…
Microsoft’s marketing strategy with Natal won’t fail for a simple reason: ~99% of all Natal games will be trash developed with the game publisher’s equivalent of loose change, just like the Wii.
Not to mention that, in the end, most of them will be simultaneously released on all three platforms, by way of some new fangled middleware that’ll translate the directional inputs of any motion tracking device, eventually turning them into gaming’s cocaine paste.
Yeah it already fail the moment the shadow cames up
I asked myself
When was the last time I played my wii….last time it was with smash brothers…..WITH A GAMECUBE CONTROLLER
Swear to fucking god, wtf is the point of then doing this. And PS3 doing the worst shameless rip off of the wii.
Want to now why Nintendo shunned its fanboys for the casuals for so long? Because the wii was nothing more then a toy to get money from idiots.
Nintendo is coming out with a new console that will have better/equal graphics to the 360/ps3 soon. And it ain’t going to be a fucking motion controller bullshit either
Video games are toys to begin with. The only reason Microsoft and Sony don’t call their systems toys is because they’re secretly ashamed of that fact. Besides, balls are toys. Do you think the Brazil National Football Team or the New England Patriot are self-conscious about playing with them everyday? Hell no! They’re celebrities and they make millions!
And the only reason why the Wii is geared more towards casual gamers is to get people who normally wouldn’t be into gaming into gaming. The old school gamers are getting old and life is taking priority over gaming. A great deal of us will even stop gaming all together. What do you think will become of these companies if that happens? All your favorite gaming icon will be gone. And with no more money to gain in the gaming market, why should anyone bring them back? Who would care? To me it seems like Nintendo is doing us a favor but with the over abundance of casual titles and endless ocean of shovelware it’s pretty difficult to swallow.