Project Natal to be renamed Wave?
Expect Project Natal to be renamed “Wave” at next week’s big reveal. Expect extensive SDF coverage of this event.
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SDF has been wrong about nearly every E3 prediction they have ever made. There is no reason to think that this one will come true either.
Oh, have fun with the PS3 lollipop.
@SDF
Um…so?
Natal is just the project name. The GameCube was Project Dolphin, the Wii was Revolution, N64 was Reality, Dreamcast was Katana, and so on. This is not unusual. What WOULD be unusual, is if Microsoft actually released Natal as “Natal”
I think the new PS3 device should be called “Karma is a bitch Sony Fantards after mocking the Wii and it’s controller all this time. Enjoy your waggle stick bitches”.
A little long winded. But they can probably afford to put it in a huge box since if Sony’s new business practices have anything to say the new controller will cost $1,500.
Natal and Move= I already got a Wii.
@InfaredChimera
To be fair the Wii hasn’t lived up to it’s potential. It could have been the greatest console this cycle with some creative 3rd party games, or at least more than the paltry amount now. But instead it wasted itself on insipid party shovelware games.
So I’m interested in if another company will have better luck in tapping that potential since it doesn’t look like the Wii is.
Mind you when I say another company I mean Microsoft. As the Move is a PS3 thing I think we can all predict what I’m going to think about it regardless of, well, anything.
It’s very interesting that SDF did nothing either snarky or dishonest in this post – at all.
Waiting for the other shoe to drop…
@taygee
That is unusual, unless they are trying to imply that the name “Wave” is dumb, but it seems appropriate enough.
That’s my point, though – not even an implication on their part, just a statement…
very loosely one could tie the proposed name to the .gif, but the .gif is honestly based on real video and “wave” as a name based upon the .gif is a reasonable guess…
so, no dishonesty, no snark – not SDF-common!
It is still snarky and insulting, just not overtly so.
I on the other hand prefer to be overt. I’m just waiting for the PS3 “move” to get a strap like the Wii controller. Then you will have the PS3 ball-gag.
@erik
Well we well know this coming Sunday-Monday what Microsoft is going to offer with the Natal, hell even Sony at least has shown games other than the ball slapping game MS has otherwise has only shown.
But either way, Natal or Move, it just reeks of Microsoft and Sony trying to cash in on a market that Nintendo (in most regards) has it sewn up. Otherwise MS or Sony could try to appeal to the “core” gamer market as much as the “casual” market and then they could have something to beat out Nintendo, but I can’t help but to think that Natal and Move are going to be subjected to the same minigame garbage that Wii is known for amongst the core gamer.
Then the other question arises on how to sell Move or Natal to the consumer and make it worth it, and not some thing that will have one or two games and then get relegated to shelf too collect dust. If you can’t tell I’m rather skeptical that either Natal or Move is going blow the doors off the gaming public or with casual gamers who are more than less content with owning the Wii and not wanting to fiddle with the 360 or PS3.
@InfaredChimera
Sony has shown games? No they have shown theoretical games in that long assed commercial with that stupid, fat, fuck that further cements Sony’s ego which prevents me from liking ANYTHING they put out.
And yes, they are trying to cash in on Nintendo. That much is crystal clear as my bias against the PS3 frankly. But, perhaps they (and by they I mean Microsoft) can do what Nintendo hasn’t and do it RIGHT.
Now if Move could make another sequel for the Bushido Blade series…. Well no. I would still hate it. Hell, I would hate an FF7 remake, even if it were possible. Which they are saying that it isn’t.
@InfraredChimera
I kind of consider MS and Sony’s motion sensing technology to fall into the realm of “add-ons” which are almost always destined for failure in the states. Unless either company decides to migrate their entire library from this point forward to Natal/Move-interaction, it will be plagued with the “gimmick” tag that will just die off like the Playstation Eye. Yeah, you could say the Wii is a gimmick in its own, but at least Nintendo forced developers to adopt it so there is no way around it.
Think about the Avatar system with the NXE upgrade and the Playstation Home…can I say disaster yet? Seems pretty pointless. Both of those were clearly inspired by Nintendo’s Mii setup.
Actually, looking back through time, how many modern day gaming concepts were pioneered by Nintendo? I’d say close to all of them.
I don’t see the NXE avatar as being a disaster. It is an amusing little side addition that everyone I know messes with, updates their looks ETC. As where home where they expected people to fully engage themselves in a soulless world filled with illiterate jackasses.
Microsoft aimed low and managed to score. Sony aimed high and didn’t manage to hit as high as Microsoft.
I should clarify, I was referring to Playstation Home was a disaster. NXE was fine unless you wanted to buy clothes for your avatar, but the PS Home just felt like it was not planned out well. Wait in line to play online bowling? Seriously? wtf. Then they let the little kids in it that run around yelling “TITTY TITTY TITTY TITTY”. The movie theater only plays movie trailers that take 3 years to buffer and it is in general nothing other than an interactive chat room.
I don’t think it was meant to be anything more than an interactive chat room. But that is no excuse for it not being a GOOD interactive chat room. As long as you don’t engage the mouth breathers in actual conversation it is at least a new form of semi-interactive advertisement with the themed rooms of current and up and coming games.
But yeah,Bad interactive chat room. And the avatars give off this blaring and unsettling aura of Uncanny Valley.
@erik
You’re probably right, but it was hyped up like it was suppose to be the next big thing in gaming. I saw right through it because I knew what it would become.
Who knows, maybe in a decade or two something somewhat like it will be the next big thing in gaming. Long before Live or PSN there were attachments for the SNES and Genesis to allow games to be played multiplayer across phone lines. It failed, horribly, but look what it’s become.
Three months, and this is it?
I’d at least expect a stupid “review” of Super Mario Galaxy 2, or Red Dead Redemption, or *something*.
Sony admits guilt to everything I’ve been accusing them of: http://www.destructoid.com/sony-man-not-fussed-by-halo-3-s-ps3-trouncing-176030.phtml
Namely this little bit:
“Our DNA is about innovation and giving people technology that they didn’t even realise they needed at the time and about pushing the envelope.”
Yeah asshole. And that is why you release $600 fucking systems full of shit no one wants and turn your biggest fans into your biggest enemies. Remember the PS2? Remember when it was about the games?
I am hoping Sony will announce downloadable PS2 games at E3 this year. Sega claims it is coming, rumors have been floating around, and we already know they patented a method of emulating PS2 games a few years ago. I want to play games I missed on the PS2 like FFXII and such…I have them in disc form but the PS2 looks so god awful on my 42″ 1080p TV, that I am hoping the potential upconverting will make it bearable.
On a side note, Amazon was selling FFXIII for $36.99 (PS3 version only, 360 was still ~$50) the other day. I picked it up and after using a $10 eCertificate from AMD I got for doing the AMD Insight surveys, was able to get it for $30 after shipping. I don’t care how not up to par the game was, it is worth $30.
You do know why the price is dropping on the PS3 version and not the 360 version don’t you?
http://kotaku.com/5556025/lawsuit-filed-against-final-fantasy-xiii
You know the reason the price is coming down on the PS3 version of FFXIII and not the 360 version could perhaps have something to do with Square-Enix being sued due to the game bricking PS3s right?
Ahem, WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Like normal SDF was wrong, WAVE goodbye to another SDF prediction that was WRONG.
wtf? its called kinect not “wave” you ps3 fagboys need to get your facts right