This summer at E3, the biggest trade show in gaming, Microsoft plans to unveil a full lineup of games designed for Natal. Set to be the biggest release of the year, expectations run high for the full body motion sensing hardware.
"We have very strong first and third-party developer support for [Natal],” said Mount according to IGN [thanks Edge]. "Needless to say, we’re putting some of our best people on coming up with great game ideas for this, and we’re going to have some great stuff. It’s part of the reason that we announced [Natal] as early as last summer so that we’d have time to get kits out and get the entire game developer community developing games for it."
While Sony and Nintendo would be hard pressed to say it, you know they must be extremely nervous over the potential impact this could have in the console war. If successful, this could potentially make the Nintendo Wii nearly obsolete and the Sony motion controller an afterthought. Not to mention, it would tip the scales in favor of the 360 for the remainder of the console’s lifecycle.
[Via Industry Gamers]
[...] NATAL aside, one of the big developments I’m watching E3 is the future pricing schemes being kicked around by different companies. As Namco-Bandai VP Olivier Compte perfectly put it, “I am convinced that in the future we must change the price of video games – they’re too expensive for the audience. With the cost of development and the retail margins, £40 [$60 US] is a fair price [to the developer], but for the consumer it is too much….From September to December there are three new blockbusters every week, and consumers just can’t afford to buy all that.” [...]