[Black Wolf]

Anyone know anything at all about this that hasn't been in all the articles? It looks pretty spiffy, if they can make it work. Sure, on the surface it's not much more than one upping the Wii and Eyetoy, but still, if it can be made to work the potential is massive, especially in certain genres (fighting games being the most obvious, but also sports and unconventional stuff like little big planet and party games and the like). Plus it's supposed to be made to work on the 360, so no need to buy new hardware (well, for the XBoxers out there - I'm Wii and PS3 atm myself).

[Ghostavo]

Project Christmas?

[phatosealpha]

Add on hardware that's not named Guitar Hero tends to do very poorly.

[Galemp]

Complete bull**** from start to finish.

[colecampbell666]

They just took bull**** and spelled it "Natal".

[General Battuta]

Actually, according to some journalists who got some hands-on time, it seems to work.

[mxlm]

I'm sure there's a demographic who are interested in having a young child dwell in their X-Box. I'd prefer not to think about those people.

[Wobble73]

I predict post-natal depression!

 

 

[Dilmah G]

I'm sure there's a demographic who are interested in having a young child dwell in their X-Box. I'd prefer not to think about those people.

*Shudders*

Sometimes I don't have an issue, but I really, really, have no restraint against hitting small, annoying children.

[SPARTAN-367]

Technology wise, if we don't make mistakes and push the technology forward... nothing new or cool will ever come out.

For playing sport games and talking to kids on the tv...  seriously... I'd rather meet and talk to people in the real world more than anything. As for playing sports.. on a tv... that just sucks that is why i'm at the park all alone Saturday mornings with my gymnastics rings having fun while all the kids are inside playing their sport video games.

No offense to those.

[Dilmah G]

I don't think I'd bother freezing alone at the park on a Saturday anyway

[SPARTAN-367]

I don't think I'd bother freezing alone at the park on a Saturday anyway

Are you in Australia? shouldn't be that bad? well I've never been so I have no clue.. 

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, but he doesn't get snow.

[Vidmaster]

it's crap.

They promised so much. Most of what you saw was scripted or fakes (Milo was played by a puppeteer for example, FACT) and the thing just won't properly work for real games in the near future. The promo video is just nuts, especially considering the live on stage demo (the only non scripted thing) was a rudimentary painting tool which wasn't too exact by the way 
And voice recognition is a gimmick anyway. YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TALK TO YOUR GAME.
Tom Clancy's End War is all that will ever be possible in that regard.

Ironic, that Sony showed their own motion controller, live, non-scripted, just showing everything that MS just promised. The Sony one will deliver. And, it's a controller after all, which will always be superior to every gesture system MS can come up with.
It will be a huge failure money-vise, since the Wii already rules the market but the thing will deliver.
You saw that Sword part? Tipping it on the skeleton's head and then knocking it over?

The Sony one could rock.
MS, while maybe more innoative, won't.

[phatosealpha]

I'd want to see a proper demo of both before making any hard claims on which would be better.

The eyetoy one, in particular, I want to see in something that's not a tightly controlled background.  Show me it working properly in something relatively akin to a living room, and not a darkened stage and spotlights, and I'll be more interested.

Even then though, it will end up being about software, and that's where Microsoft does best.  Say what you want about them, but their dev tools are some of the best available.

[Dilmah G]

I don't think I'd bother freezing alone at the park on a Saturday anyway

Are you in Australia? shouldn't be that bad? well I've never been so I have no clue.. 

Yeah, but it's winter here.

[Titan]

It's microsoft. WinXP was one in a million. Nothing of theirs is good, because they're a bunch of politician-esque dip****s.

Apologies to anyone that works there. You know who I mean. (Every higher up who is no bill gates. Like they would be here...)

[Rick James]

If Microsoft would listen to actual people instead of boards and committees of supposed expert market analysts, then they may become viable again. Until that day comes, screw it. I'm sticking with XP.

[phatosealpha]

Those boards and committees are in fact composed of people, you know.

[SpardaSon21]

Yeah, but they're people who have no idea what the hell they are talking about.  They aren't really people who do much with their computers.  If MS listened to its IT guys who have to play around with Windows to set up their networks, then they might accomplish something besides churning out crap operating systems.  MS has the same problems as the gaming industry.  They don't listen to the people who have to use their products.