Fri, Mar 05, 2010 | 22:58 GMT
Molyneux talks Natal, says it’s been updated since X10
Peter Molyneux has revealed that there have been “countless revisions of cameras and countless revisions of software” updates made to Project Natal since it was first shown to the press.
Speaking to GI.biz, Molyneux tried to quell some fears that the peripheral is a bit laggy, especially in relation to comments made by Jonathan Ross – who, according to Molyneux, played with an older version of motion device.
“It’s always a huge frustration as a designer when you see somebody play a version when you know it’s been exceeded many times over,” he said. “It so often happens, because you do a version for a show and then you don’t do another version because you’re too busy developing the game.
“So very often you get a position that what a person’s looking at is two, three, four months, a year old and you kind of want to go, ‘no, no, it’s 10 times better than that!’ So it is very, very frustrating; it always is – there’s just countless revisions of cameras since the one at X10 and countless revisions of software.
During E3, Microsoft is slated to show the final version of Natal along with some titles expected for it at launch.
The peripheral will be out in time for the holiday shopping extravaganza.
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10 comments
#1
Peetry
05/03/10, 11:39 pm
So they intentionally previewed an outdated version of their ‘revolutionary’ product to high profile celebs? Very silly IMO
Regardless, shut the fuck up Molyneux! The man lives to over-promise!
#2
sg1974
06/03/10, 1:14 am
He’s right.
Heres the first version of the camera:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyetoy
And the second
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Eye
#3
Michael O’Connor
06/03/10, 1:24 am
The EyeToy comparisons are getting really old.
When the EyeToy can can motion capture an entire body and implant it into the game world as a 3D object, then you can compare it.
#4
DJ Deathstar
06/03/10, 1:40 am
Also you really don’t want to link it with eyetoy and playstation eye in the links title, bit of a give away
#5
Phoenixblight
06/03/10, 1:42 am
MS has to make their money back after buying it from the Isaerli company. MS is aiming to advertise the shit out of it with celebrites, that right there is evidence enough that this “system” is going to be full of shovelware.
#6
Slam Da Brakes
06/03/10, 2:36 am
Countless revisions = countless problems. I thought he learnt his lesson in over-promising? Natal is so good now that they have scaled down it’s use in Fable 3.
#7
Spaced Oddity
06/03/10, 2:58 am
@ Michael O’Connor
It’s been years since they’ve demoed it, but the PlayStation Eye is capable of capturing 3D objects as well as 2D drawings and pictures, then allow player control over it into gaming. Knowing this, I doubt it’d be too much of a stretch to capture a person and put it as a 3D object into a game.
#8
Quiiick
06/03/10, 11:33 am
Countless revisions = countless acquisitions!
#9
sg1974
06/03/10, 12:43 pm
Nice strawman OConnor I didn’t say Natal and Eyetoy were the same I was joking how it was an earlier version of the type which is referring sarcasticly to how MS claim Natal is a first and something never seen before. Kujo or whatever he calls himself keeps repeating that verifiabaly false claim:
See video at http://dualshockers.com/2010/03/05/is-project-natal-playstation-eyetoy-all-over-again/
The PS Eye however is something different and much betterv than Eyetoy, something people still dont get. That can do everything Natal can do except proper depth perception. and its been out over two years. Sony have just failed to support it proeprly.
#10
itsucks
06/03/10, 3:59 pm
eatshitgay1974, wow you really are deperate, is ARC(lol) gonna bomb that hard? Well its just a WM+ clone add-onn, best of luck.