Whether you were lucky enough to attend this year's E3, watched it from the comfort of your house or even just read the write ups about the show on the web, you were introduced to code name: Project Natal. It's a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" says Microsoft at their E3 press conference. After that statement, you'd think that the traditional video gaming controller that has literally evolved into our hands since Pong, is about to gain a one- way ticket to a museum! So, I don't know about you, but I'm not completely ready to ditch my handy-dandy controller thats served me faithfully and leave it for dead!
Lets get this straight, i'm not anti-Natal or anything. In fact, i think the tech is amazing and i'm very eager to get my hands on it. I also believe that if Natal is a success, it will open the door to a wide array of new games and gamers alike. But, and there is a serious "but" to consider. That is, is it right for everyone, especially the hardcore gamers? Do you want all of your favorite games and game franchises to suddenly feature motion control? Ready to rip apart Drones in Gears of war 2 with your air chainsaw, or "leap into the air to jack a brute chopper" in Halo 3? Wow, just imagine playing Mirror's Edge! Honestly, not me.
The point being, the gaming industry will now have us believe that motion control like Natal is the way forward, the future of gaming, if thats true, are we truly ready? Are we, as gamers ready for the changes and challenges that we will face into the next generation of gaming? So, are you on board with motion control like Natal, or do you feel that your trusty pal the controller is clearly still the best tool to handel the job? Whatever the case, you tell me, sound off.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I'm not a fan of what people think Natal will be, but I like what I think it will be. Reading the comment sections here on N4G, I feel like people think that Natal will completely remove controllers from the 360, but thats not how I feel. I think that Natal will not be as big as people think (Probably 1 in 10-15 games uses Natal). I also feel that Natal games will be more XBLA games rather than full-retail games.
im with you on this, i suggest a compromise in a pending blog