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Natal Technology a Gift To the Disabled, Amputees
SlappingOysters writes "Natal could be capable of a lot more than was originally thought. Gameplayer has some information about how the technology will function in multiplayer, and goes on to reveal how it is intelligent enough to give full-bodied virtual movement to disabled gamers. The site had previously revealed that the Natal dev kits have been with developers for a couple of months, suggesting that the device may not be as far off as has been suggested by some media outlets."
If they were born gimpy (and, and important distinction here - not made gimpy through stupid wars) then euthanize the motherfuckers. They're better off not living or torturing their offspring because God decided to piss in their gene pool. Use them for cutting-edge medical research or give them the option to take themselves out so that they won't become the burdenous and chicanerous assholes we see trying to berate, shuck, and jive everybody else. Those who have actually dealt with born gimps know what I'm talking about.
Those happy gimps you see in their promotional literature are nothing like the conniving, bitter cripples one encounters in real life. If they could get their dicks up they'd throw their semen in your face out of spite as Multiple Migs did to Clarice Starling. They'd probably want to smell your cunt, too.
This is it. This is the end of the eight year long 8 billion dollar Xbox fiasco.
The huge hits to the OS revenue and profits from netbooks and the overall bad economic conditions. The layoffs at Microsoft. The cutting of deadweight projects. There was exactly zero chance Microsoft was going to blow billions on yet another Xbox console.
They had two choices:
1. Dump the entire Xbox train wreck.
2. Try to salvage the existing hardware by trying to copy what Nintendo did with the Wii
They are going with 2.
Repackage the old Xbox 360 hardware with possibly some new branding to distance the new product from the stench of the RRoD disaster and marketing more aimed at soccer moms that 20 something college age Halo fans.
This has been a long time coming. Microsoft has been shutting down their first party studios for a year or two now. Letting former exclusive third party Xbox developers go off be bought out by multiplatform publishers. The clone of the Nintendo Wiis for the Xbox 360. And now the EyeToy style motion controls.
None of this EyeToy style motion control stuff is going to be ready until late next year. Nor does most of what they demoed actually work as was shown when various gaming media sites exposed the E3 demos being pre-scripted/rigged. So Microsoft has a year and a half of nothing to fill. If they don't keep the hype at an fever pitch they risk losing huge numbers of suckers who are still paying Microsoft 50 dollars a year in online fees.
So that is the trick. How to get the existing Halo demographic fanbase to continue paying the huge online fees for the next year and a half to fund the development of the Wii style replacement for the existing 360. A pretty tough task. A week before E3 if you would of asked the existing 360 fanbase what they thought of Wiimote/Eyetoy style controls they would have laughed at you. Now Microsoft is faced with hyped those very same type of controls to keep the existing 360 userbase from abandoning the console.