The Future Will Be Motion Controlled
This morning I got to see a live demo of Project Natal, and all I have to say is this: for all of you who have been waiting Minority Report type interactions with your computer (which, if you didn’t know, Microsoft helped design for the movie), you have less than a year to wait. The Wii is cool and everything, and I am admittedly a huge Nintendo fanboy because of Mario and Zelda, but no Wiimote and no Sony “ball on a stick” motion controller is going to come close to what Natal offers. I say this not only as a Microsoft employee, but as a gamer who is absolutely, 100% going to get Natal.
So, now that all 360 fans are sufficiently jealous of what I got to see today, the rest of my day was fairly busy but nothing all that exciting happened. Tomorrow my day is slightly less busy than today (and there’s also no Natal demo to go see), but my day doesn’t really get boring until the middle of the afternoon. Soon I’m going to have some new specs to start writing up, so that may or may not get started tomorrow.