The codename “Project Natal” will allegedly be no more once E3 is upon us as Microsoft is set to reveal the official name at that show. My guess? “Microsoft Vapor.”
If you think about it, it makes sense on a variety of serious and hilarious levels.
I guess now we know why Allard and Bach left huh?
Prediction: The first two price leaks were purposely incorrect. When Microsoft *officially* reveals Natal at e3, the $99 will be an “incredible value.”
With rumored pricing hovering in the $150-$200 range, I can only surmise that Microsoft is not serious about Natal, its success, or its impact on gaming.
If “sales exploded and haven’t really slowed down since” the PS3 Slim was released, I’d hate to see what it looks like when sales are “not doing well.”
Despite my outward appearance, I do enjoy the competition that exists between Nintendo, Microsoft, and even Sony. They need each other, which is why today’s Microsoft news is so troubling.
Nintendo titles are often lambasted as “kiddie” or “less important” by gamers who believe their tits and ass gorefest with guns action games are more mature. Hrm.
Inspired by Iwata Asks: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Charging for online play (EA, THQ and Ubisoft all considering or already implementing) isn’t *that* big of a deal, really.
While the whole anti-consumer “Project Ten Dollar” movement sucks in general, and sucks especially for the used game buyers who can’t afford inflated $60-per-game prices, it does confirm something I’ve suspected all along about online gaming, specifically: That online functionality, forcibly hoisted to the forefront our our consciousnesses by the enthusiast press and hardcore gamers as some kind of necessary component of all video games today, just isn’t that big a deal.
Ubisoft, which hemorrhaged cash in its latest financial report, is “predicting” that 50% of all video games will be 3D in two years. Hmm.
Do video game publishers know what it is anymore? EA, Ubisoft, Sony…the list goes on…