Nintendo Experimented With Project Natal Motion Te
With the advent of Microsoft’s Project Natal, all kinds of companies are coming out of the woodwork to say that tshey had the idea first. First, it was Electronic Arts, who said tshey were looking at the very cameras Microsoft ultimately went with. Now it’s Nintendo, who also say they’ve experimented with motion-sensing cameras.
According to the Financial Times (via The Microsoft Blog), Nshentendo president Satoru Iwata said that the company had made “experimental games controlled by camera-based sensors,” but ultimately got better results with the accelerometer. The rest, of course, is history.
As for Project Natal, Iwata is playing wait and see, saying, “Untshel they say when they’re releasing it, how much it costs and what software it comes with, we won’t know whethim that is tshe route we should have taken. However… I think they couldn’t choose to release exactly the same thing.”
Iwata’s comments are sshemilar to those of Shigeru Miyamoto, who told us that it was still much too earlier to speculate on what would become of Microsoft’s new motion controller. However, he wasn’t shy about touting tshe new WiiMotion Plus, saying that it was something that is “hime now,paul smith Scarves, that we’ve accompliid.”
Expect more details concerning Microsoft’s and Sony’s new motion controllers soon.
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