Zeus
01-12-2010, 10:58 AM
According to Microsoft's Robbie Bach, around 70-80 percent of the world's publishers are already working on Project Natal. That's a huge amount and just goes to show the investment that MS is making in its technology.
<blockquote>A Part of the reason we showed Natal at [the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show] — which is actually a little bit risky to be honest because it’s a new technology, very cutting edge and relatively early in its development — is that we wanted third-party publishers to know that it was real and we wanted them to have developer kits and to get them working on it. We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace. Xbox games don’t go away; you have to think of all this as additive. I think it adds to the beauty of what’s going on.</blockquote>
News Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fp/story/2010/01/09/2421545.html" target="_blank">CBC</a>
<blockquote>A Part of the reason we showed Natal at [the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show] — which is actually a little bit risky to be honest because it’s a new technology, very cutting edge and relatively early in its development — is that we wanted third-party publishers to know that it was real and we wanted them to have developer kits and to get them working on it. We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace. Xbox games don’t go away; you have to think of all this as additive. I think it adds to the beauty of what’s going on.</blockquote>
News Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fp/story/2010/01/09/2421545.html" target="_blank">CBC</a>