Report – Microsoft to announce Natal’s formal name at E3

“Microsoft expects to sell millions and millions of Natal units in its first year ”

This statement alone makes we hope Natal will bomb hard.

They are probably going to bundle it with every machine thats the only way they will sell millions imo

I actually just recently bought my own 360 (yay ) but I can still conclusively say I will not buy this and I hope to god it tanks HARD!

PS: what do you think is a better deal?

an Arcade 360 with natal for £200
OR
an elite 360 with alan wake bundled in for £200

yeah i thought so

Anyone else think it’s going to feel weird calling it something other than Natal?

Well… we knew all that already didn’t we ?

@4 Yea I do too.

NuTool

“The Swing Your Arms Like You Just Don’t Care Device”

Speaking of Natal, I’d love to see Sega redo Boogerman for it. It would be a real Pick and Flick Adventure.

“The pointless cash in by Microsoft in order to steal some of the Wiis audience device”

I don’t undertand the antagonism toward natal…. If it works as well as MS says it does, I’m sure it will be fantastic and would deserve to sell millions. What is with hate. Can we not accept a new idea in a (mainly) adult discussion.

Honestly i thought it was going to be called natal at the end of the dat, just like windows 7 was a test name but it stuck (sigh, why bother numbering windows when you stopped doing that after window 3?)

It’ll be called something generic like xbox motion camera or something >_>

103squid or thereabouts…dream on if you think I’s pay that for it!

£103 is quite expensive. I thought £80 at most with a game or two. I guess it is still rumours though.

Would be great if they called it “jiggles”.

they should name it HAL (for the kids: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Are people really that interested in this Natal/Move stuff?

@17

I am. If the price is right and the end product does what the PR folks are claiming it can.

I own a Wii, and a few things on there are mildly entertaining. I would never put down my controler in favor of Move or Natal to play BFBC2.

But casual games can be fun esp when you play them with the wife and inlaws etc.

@17 I’m not. But i’m more interested in software they have.

@ 17: I’m very, very interested in the PS Move.

I couldn’t give a fig about Natal for games, but it looks to have potential as a GUI manipulation tool.

I’m going to bet on MicroShift

Knowing MS it will be something stupid like Xbox Force, like of Star Wars fame

@22 probably not. They are focusing the entire presentation for Natal. There must be something big.

@ 22: I’m hoping for Microsoft Moomin… but mainly ‘cos I like the word “moomin”.

Lots of jaded folks against motion devices.

Granted, there’s nothing wrong with the old gamepad, but if Natal does what Microsoft claims it does, it will be one hell of a nice gimmick, even if it is all gonna come down to the games it’s applied to.

You shouldn’t expect a console controller to be the next Magna Carta. Sometimes it’s just about shits and giggles.

I still can’t see this or Move doing as well as Microsoft or Sony expect it will. But…perhaps they’ll prove me wrong.

My bet is they call it the Wave.

Edge says it’ll retail at $149 http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/05/26/natal-to-cost-149-edge/

my god £100 (and arcade bundles inevitably phasing out elite bundles for the same price which are a better deal aswell lets face it) for a peripheral that we don’t even know what the games are.

I despair muchly so =/

Cookie – it says the same thing in the post, and from the same original source.

@30 – oops yeah! Sorry.
Guinness glasses on tonight

Yup too expensive for me. Won’t be something I purchase any time soon then.

$149 would be a ridiculous price if they actually want anyone to buy one. Well out of the “impulse buy” range that might tempt the casuals.