Shane Kim, Microsoft’s VP, said if they’d just brought out their own Wiimote then we could have ”fairly criticised” them and called it ”derivative”.
With Natal they want to ”reinvent the industry” and won’t launch until they have the ”entire program ready to go”. It’s a ”real opportunity” to reach out to those without home consoles.
”If we’d just come out with something that looks and feels like the Nintendo Wiimote, I think you could have fairly criticised us and said it was derivative. That’s not the path we wanted to go down,” Kim told GamesIndustry.biz.
”We could have done that, but we wanted to reinvent the industry and revolutionise home entertainment. That’s what we will achieve with Project Natal,” he said.
”We’re going to launch when we feel like we have the entire program ready to go, including the experiences and support from third parties. It’s not a lot of time between now and the spring, considering it was just unveiled.”
”The most important thing is this has nothing to do with Nintendo and Sony. This has everything to do with unlocking the potential of the industry and addressing the many millions of people - the 60 per cent of house holds who don’t have a videogame console at all,” continued Microsoft’s corporate VP. ”That’s the real opportunity for us.”
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