Some video has surfaced of some of the game play of Microsoft Project Natal Kinect.
Tag: Natal
In this video just out from Microsoft “Craig Mundie offers insights about new technologies, natural user experiences and discoveries on the tech industry horizon.”. Looks like Microsoft is betting really big on making all their system support NUI interface across the board. I sure hope that I will be able to plug in my Natal controller into Windows 8 and get some of that NUI goodness…
And here is why i think it has…
- Windows 7 – It just rocks
- Hyper-V R2 – VMWare Killer
- Windows Server 2008 R2 – Just like Windows Server 2008 but even better
- Xbox 360 – Clearly it is the best high powered gaming console on the market
- Bing – Cam out with a bang and people are still talking about it over a month after its launch
- ZuneHD – Will simply be the best portable media device on the market
- Exchange 2010 – Will make corporate emails systems much faster and more reliable
- Office 2010 – Like Windows 7 it is a highly pimped version of its predecessor
- Project Natal – Is going to be the must have device of 2010
- Microsoft Security Essentials – Finally Microsoft will have a free anti-virus system (not including Dos 6.20 )
All these products are now either out or going to come out in the next 12 months and all are going to be huge successes.
Preston Gralla also thinks so at Here’s why Microsoft has got its mojo back – Computerworld Blogs
Well there has been a lot of denying that a new Xbox will be coming next year but if you take a close look at what they are saying no one is denying there wont be a new console… at least not in the medium term…
Lets look at it closely at what he says….
"A few people have emailed me regarding something Steve Ballmer said earlier today about a new Xbox coming in 2010."
Well of course the rumours are flying after what Steve Ballmer said.
"As the Xbox team stated at E3 two weeks ago, we are not even halfway through the current console generation lifecycle"
Think how the Microsoft software is supported… current version and previous version, this means that Xbox 360 will be supported for a while yet but it does not mean that they will not introduce a new Xbox that is more power lets call it the "Xbox 360 Pro" if all they are doing it increasing the number of cores and the amount of ram this give it extra power but mean that backwards compatibility is also excellent… plus it means that they don’t have a lot of re-inventing to do when it comes to basic architecture design which should hopefully mean a shorter time to develop the hardware and software… meaning that game should be able to change quality based on the hardware specs… somewhat like games for the PC right now are written…
"and believe Xbox 360 will be the entertainment centre in the home for long into the next decade." Well its 2009 right now… Well into next decade could mean 2013…
" Project Natal will be an important part of this platform, but we have not confirmed a launch date at this time."
Notice he say "PLATFORM" not Xbox 360… leaving the option to make a more powerful version of the current Xbox 360…
Also notice the absence of him saying there will not be a new Xbox next year… So if you ask me there is a new Xbox coming next year all be it probably very late next year.
Read Major Nelson “clarification” here (clear as mud) : http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/06/18/to-clarify-what-steve-said-earlier-today.aspx
