Archive for March, 2010
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Microsoft Plans To Kick Off E3 With “Project Natal” Experience
In the spirit of Bruno, I’d like to say “Opening E3 with a press conference is soooo last season.”
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Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg tweeted that the company will kick off their E3 extravaganza with a Project Natal experience on Sunday night. Their press conference would then take place the following day.
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PS Move and Project Natal are “great honor” to Nintendo
Nintendo have Microsoft closing in on one side with Project Natal and Sony on the other with PlayStation Move, but should they be worried? Not at all, reckons Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto; he thinks the company should be too busy being flattered by the “great honor” of Wii inspiring the rival motion-control systems. In fact, [...]
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Project Natal “world premiere” on June 13th at E3 2010
Microsoft have announced that the Project Natal motion-gaming system for Xbox 360 will be making its “world premiere” at E3 on Sunday, June 13th 2010. Originally demonstrating the system back at E3 2009, this time around we’re hoping that Microsoft throw in some pricing and specific availability details for Project Natal. The “experience” event will [...]
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Kinda Obvious: Microsoft Already Researching Natal Successor [Natal]
Microsoft Resarch Asia director Hsiao-Wuen Hon states the obvious: the company is already researching the “second version down the road.” Natal, like the first Xbox, is a big investment, so it’s unlikely that Microsoft would give up at one generation without giving it at least two, or maybe even three tries. So if the [...]
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Natal vs Sony Motion Controller: is the console cycle over?
Or has a new war just begun without us noticing?
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The answer to that header is of course, no. The console cycle, that endless Promethean rotation of technological death and re-birth, is not really over, but what everyone in the industry seems to be saying is that it has irrevocably slowed.
Earlier this week, Electronic Arts’ [...]
