Topic: NATAL was first offered to Nintendo, they refused.

Accordingly, Satoru Iwata was presented with NATAL a year before Microsoft, but he completely refused. Ill leave the rest up to discussion.
Source: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/reports-nintend...

Well time will tell if he made a wise choice or a completely idiotic mistake. I know which way I'm leaning.

What's the project price point for Natal?

Good thing Satoru Iwata turned down that offer, imagine the outrage that would happen among core gamers if he had approved it. And beside, the last thing they need is more peripheals.

All I know is: Nintendo is smart, and the leader of innovation. If they didn't jump on this, it won't be that great, and they probably already have something up their sleeves that will trumpet the competition. I'll bet they do.

Perhaps, ironically, a trumpet?

Brass Band Hero.

i dont think natal will work out

I was very excited when I learned abot Natal. After seeing some demonstrations for it though, and some iffy news reports on whether or not the device can register your movements quickly enough for some of the games, I'm not entirely convinced that it'll be as great as everyone makes it out to be.

Anyone who has read 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' will be aware of the problems of having completely motion-controlled interfaces.
But we'll find out whether it was a good call or not after it's released.

The Wii couldn't handle it. Natal uses a hell of a lot of the 360's power, the Wii would explode.

I'm pretty sure this story has already been debunked, but whether or not it works okay it's too little, too late for Microsoft I think.

You know what's happened don't you? We've come to another one of those blasted doors again...

I'm actually quite glad that Microsoft decided to get it. Imagine all the Microsoft fanboys, who bragged about Microsoft not fooling around with kiddy motion controls, when they find out Nintendo turned it down, and Microsoft sprung for it!

OFF TOPIC:
As i am currently re-reading the Hitchhiker's "Trilogy" (ramping up to read the new "authorized" installment "And One More Thing..." by that other author), this thread made me smile.

Hitchhiker's <3 I'm reading 'So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish'.

Pretty happy about this actually. I honestly don't wanna pay for another peripheral/console upgrade. Remember; personal opinion.

How's that? I stopped at the third book. Should I make a Hitchhiker's thread?

So Long is quite different. I liked it, but the first two are without a doubt the best, and it generally goes downhill from there. I think I'd place So Long third in quality out of the five (haven't read the new one written by whats-his-name, if that even counts).

I quite enjoyed 'Mostly Harmless'. But I do agree, 'So Long' wasn't the best in the series.

If it's true, I can't blame them.