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Microsoft's Project Natal Discriminates Against Twins

Written by Mick Brown | Tuesday, 09 June 2009 10:37

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This whole thing is bullshit. E3 saw the announcement of three competing motion control technologies from all three console manufacturers, but the biggest leap forward was with Microsoft's Project Natal. Microsoft are making it harder and harder for me to shake this fanboy toe tag that haters have wrapped around this little piggy.

Project Natal does away with all the plastic and let's your hands do the controlling. The full video from Microsoft's E3 press conference can be seen below from Xbox's Project Natal Youtube Channel, but more can be learned from the official Xbox site.

Whether you're against the whole concept of motion control or not, or whether you disbelieve what Microsoft are trying to achieve (Headed of course by the lord of broken promises himself, Peter Molyneux) it's obvious that keyboards, mice and console controllers have become the crutch of interactive entertainment. Microsoft, it seems, have recognised this and are moving forward while Sony have simply improved on an existing concept and Nintendo are just patching up their revolutionary (at the time) technology that now seems archaic.

But with all Microsoft's promises of how well Project Natal will function, I have just one question. If the Xbox 360 will rely on facial and voice recognition, what's going to stop my identical twin brother from using my Xbox Profile? Didn't think about that, did ya, Molyneux?

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