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. )
