MS names 'Natal'... Kinect It's official: Microsoft's 'Project Natal' will come to market as the Kinect. Thought perhaps PS3 fanboys will now start to call it the 'kinell. Xbox Kinect Kinect's branding was unveiled last night at a glitzy do ahead of this week's E3 show, the games industry's chief knees-up - and, indeed, Kinect's formal launch this …
The 360 equivalent of the EyeToy is the LIVE Vision Camera which was an epic fail due to lack of support in games. Sending rude pictures to people in Burnout Paradise was about the best it got.
Natal^H^H^H^H^H^H Kinect has full body mapping (of multiple people), voice and gesture recongnition plus a hat full of other tricks. However, if there's no games to prop it up, it'll go the same way as the Vision Cam.
Really, it is just a souped up version of the EyeToy. If it isn't using a controller, it is using image recognition for detecting people ... which is what the EyeToy does. About the only interesting game I remember seeing for that was the Anti-Grav game for the PS2.
I don't see this being a 'Wii killer' at all. Hell, I doubt it would even surpass the PS3 "glowball" thing!
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