Hollywood director Stephen Spielberg has a new super best friend in Microsoft, and he says the emergence of Natal has ”thrown away” last week’s thinking.
He’s incredibly excited by its prospects as it ”changes the paradigm”, Natal introduces us to ”a whole new world”. Controllers hamper our ”opportunity to cry” with games, to really feel.
”I’m currently making videogames through EA. And right now I’m so excited to be able to write for this platform, and that’s what I’m most excited about, because it sort of changes the paradigm of what I would have written for last week, now all that has been thrown away and it’s a whole new world, a whole new beginning,” Spielberg told the BBC.
He explains that worrying about how gamers interact through the controller saps away our emotional connection with the game.
”I don’t really know of a convergence, and I can’t give you a date for convergence, but so far the videogame industry has not allowed us the opportunity to cry while we’re playing a videogame because we’re too busy putting our adrenaline rush into the controller, or to wherever we have to swing our arm with the Wii controller to get a result, to achieve a level of success,” he continued.
”Because of that there’s no room for a videogame to break your heart,” he added. ”I think, in terms of a technology, we have a little more room to be much more emotional with the Natal technology than we ever have before.”
Spielberg was clearly seen on the Microsoft stage giving Natal a sincere pat on the back, and he looked psyched to mess around with the technology. Will he ditch EA in favour of joining team Microsoft now? See Spielberg’s E3 address below.
Source: Eurogamer
