[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Drakul Natals could go pretty cheap and it's going to extend the 360's life by 5 years. I think I guessed the extended lifespan in another thread. Source. I'm hoping it does turn out to be as cheap as predicted. I'm going to be picking one up if the price is right and there are at least a few games worth playing at time of launch. We'll see at E3, I guess. That's when we'll see some Natal games.

Patcher's fairly consistently wrong, isn't he? He's predicted a lot wrong, like increases in gold prices for live for the past 3-4 years.

As such, while I hope it's that cheap, it probably won't be. And I seriously doubt we see an extension of 5 years.

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD I think using Natal for menus and shit will be cool, but as far gaming potential goes I don't see it doing much more than gimmicky applications. At best Microsoft will make sure not to repeat shovelware by encouraging developers against it.

There could be some pretty awesome applications of the hardware. Unfortunately, I don't see them being done.

Mostly, I'm concerned about it using the 360's processing power, adding latency to the experience, and being poorly supported, but it has potential.

Sadly, the same is true of the DS, and that didn't exactly turn out to have a lot of killer applications of the touch screen. Not that it's a bad system, before anyone bitches at me, but there aren't many games that really use it to a great extent.

I think the best applications would shy far away from fake sword swinging and shit, though. Strategy, puzzle, and non-action RPGs could benefit greatly.