November 20th, 2009
On November 11, 2009 MCV reported some details of behind-closed-doors conference between Microsoft and UK game developers.
Here’s their info:
1. Natal will be released in November 2010.
2. Natal will cost below 80$. It may even cost as low as 50$.
3. 5 million devices are scheduled for production up to release date.
Yep, that’s a really good news about Natal price. However…
However, on November 17, 2009 Microsoft officially refuted this info:
Asked if reports on pricing and shipments for its motion control technology were correct, Xbox UK boss Neil Thompson replied:
“No. They weren’t accurate, they were rumours. I’ve got nothing more to say about it… We’re still very much in the baking on Natal and there’s a lot of things to get decided on it.”
So should we trust MCV info or not? I think we should. But only approximately. 
After all, Natal release date strongly depends on game developers. Whether they manage to create high-quality Natal games before November 2010 or not.
And device price depends on the number of Natal game titles as well. More good games will mean greater price for Natal device – that’s normal. Yeah, and price is not constant. It can be 150$ at release date and fall to 80$ three months later.
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November 20th, 2009
At the beginning of November 2009 Ubisoft held a conference about its earnings and future strategies. And they were talking about Natal as well. The most interesting phrase was:
We will also be ready with some very nice innovations when Natal and Motion Controller are launched on the Xbox 360 and PS3 next year.
Well, one more proof for us about Natal release in 2010.
What else did they say? Well, they confirmed they are working on some Natal titles. And they are satisfied with precision of Natal device:
You ask whether it will be more precise on Natal and on PS3 and I believe Natal we are quite satisfied by the level of precision we can get and we think it can be very good for the games.
Thanks to Joystiq for this news.
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October 25th, 2009
Nintendo boss, Shigeru Miyamoto, gave a long interview to Popular Mechanics. What does it have to do with Natal? One important thing. Nintendo is not going to introduce anything Natal-like, they are going to upgrade their Wii controllers:
With both the Wii remote itself and Wii Motion Plus, what we’ve been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience. And while we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future, what I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.
Do they simply underestimate Natal technology? Or do they know more than Microsoft about difficulties with gesture-based controllers?
Let’s not forget, guys, Nintendo was the first to revolutionize controllers. So I would respect their opinion and scepticism about Natal.
I still hope, though, that they simply underestimate Natal. )
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