Project Natal: A Good Thing?
Maybe this is Microsoft’s version of Wii Fit? It looks the family is having fun. I am going to read more about this since I have only seen the video and missed the coverage at E3.
Here is Felicia Day looking like she was having a blast.
In all honesty, no. I’m not impressed by this at all. It will be a new way to play, but for me personally, I relax with gaming. I like to curl up and sit back with a remote and rock the pixels of my favorite games.
The true problem I really see with this is the fact that it continues to further open the game market to more people that don’t normally play games. This of course, is great for the financial good of the industry, but over saturates the market with games that appeal to the general or more casual gamer rather than making more ground breaking game titles. The Wii was exciting and new as well as the DS, but it brought in a slew of titles that bore the living crap out of a serious gamer. Now it’s more about making games that appeal to the general/casual gaming crowd rather than the true gamers.
It’s a neat concept, a cool technology, but I feel that it will just kill of the potential for more interesting titles in place of more titles that you can play with the whole family during the holidays.
I see your point. There will probably be a few of those damn cooking games that I find so pointless. And it positively all boils down to money. Instead of being content on making their core demographic happy, some game developers want to continue branching out until they have no possible consumer left without a game. Game for the 60 year old knitting grandma? Check. How about that 7 year old who plays with Bratz? Check. Hopefully they can use this technology to improve on sports games and similar action based games but we will probably end up no better than with games similar to those developed for the Nintendo Power Glove. Let’s see how it plays out.