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shmokes:
Yeah . . . Natal looks to be a glorifed eye toy, but the iPhone is also a glorified Pocket PC. The Gamecube controller is a glorified NES controller. A 2006 Honda Civic is a glorified 1986 Honda Civic. Sometimes "glorified" makes all the difference. :)
opt2not:
The Natal is what the eyetoy should have been.
Just like how the Wii-motion plus is how the wii-controller should have been as well.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 18, 2010, 07:00:41 pm ---Yeah . . . Natal looks to be a glorifed eye toy, but the iPhone is also a glorified Pocket PC. The Gamecube controller is a glorified NES controller. A 2006 Honda Civic is a glorified 1986 Honda Civic. Sometimes "glorified" makes all the difference. :)
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Your point would be much more valid if any of your cited examples were true.
Glorified means in actuality they are almost exactly the same but people perceive them as being different. Those things actually are different.
Natal is just a high resolution camera... you know EXACTLY what the eyetoy was. The only difference there could be would be a software one and game developers and tech guru's following the natal have already stated that to do motion tracking like the natal claims would take so much processing power that the games would suffer. So yeah, the natal, on paper is all that and a bag of chips, but in reality your going to get slighty underpowered graphics with slightly buggy motion control... the wort of both worlds.
I have no doubt that the tech demos for natal are super impressive as well. There isn't much you know, game to them so they can invest all the 360's resources into doing more accurate tracking.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 19, 2010, 04:09:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 18, 2010, 07:00:41 pm ---Yeah . . . Natal looks to be a glorifed eye toy, but the iPhone is also a glorified Pocket PC. The Gamecube controller is a glorified NES controller. A 2006 Honda Civic is a glorified 1986 Honda Civic. Sometimes "glorified" makes all the difference. :)
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Your point would be much more valid if any of your cited examples were true.
Glorified means in actuality they are almost exactly the same but people perceive them as being different. Those things actually are different.
Natal is just a high resolution camera... you know EXACTLY what the eyetoy was. The only difference there could be would be a software one and game developers and tech guru's following the natal have already stated that to do motion tracking like the natal claims would take so much processing power that the games would suffer. So yeah, the natal, on paper is all that and a bag of chips, but in reality your going to get slighty underpowered graphics with slightly buggy motion control... the wort of both worlds.
I have no doubt that the tech demos for natal are super impressive as well. There isn't much you know, game to them so they can invest all the 360's resources into doing more accurate tracking.
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Hehe, I used to believe the same thing as you, but just wait until you get to use it yourself and I think you'll change your mind, just like I did. I did have a lot more typed up to explain why including specifics of how much of the 360's resources it actually uses, but I decided I'm probably not supposed to be talking about it, so I'll just end it with "Wait and see for yourself" :) Unfortunately it'll probably just be used as a gimmick in most games for quite a while.
Blanka:
LOL,
The cooling ducts to keep the screens from overheating :laugh:
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