Mon, Jan 11, 2010 | 21:22 GMT

Bach: “70 or 80% of publishers” developing games with Natal

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Speaking at CES last week, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach has revealed that over “70 or 80 percent of the publishers in the world” are currently working with Project Natal.

Speaking in an interview with CBC, he said:

“We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace.”

Bach further added: “Part of the reason we showed Natal at [E3 2009] — which is actually a little bit risky to be honest because it’s a new technology, very cutting edge and relatively early in its development — is that we wanted third-party publishers to know that it was real and we wanted them to have developer kits and to get them working on it.

Microsoft revealed last week at the event that Natal will be out this holiday season.

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#1

Psychotext
11/01/10, 9:35 pm

…unfortunately, the missing 30% of publishers are the decent ones.

:D

#2

Redh3lix
11/01/10, 9:50 pm

Gonna be interesting to know what these publishers come up with. Any guesses out there?

#3

psxman
11/01/10, 9:54 pm

…The ones that don’t think you have to flail your arms around and look like a knob in order to have fun.

#4

Psychotext
11/01/10, 9:55 pm

360 Sports
360 Fit
360 Wave Your Arms Around
360 Swat a Fly
360 Dance
360 Karate (ok, that could be sort of cool)

#5

robmlufc
12/01/10, 12:04 am

Unfortunatly 70-80% of gamers couldnt give a monkeys… spent the time and effort on some proper games developers!!

#6

zoopdeloop
12/01/10, 12:44 am

Natal based games
solitaire
minesweeper
Chess
and for the hardcore spider solitaire(GOTY)

#7

impey
12/01/10, 1:25 am

Pleasssssseeeee just let me sit on my arse like god intend microsoft

#8

Gheritt White
12/01/10, 10:05 am

Shouldn’t that be: ’70 or 80% of publishers’ developing “games“ with Natal’?

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