EA CEO John Riccitiello (try saying that three times), has said Microsoft’s Project Natal has ”a lot to be worked out” but is ”certainly very compelling” for studios.
Sony’s motion controller meanwhile ”doesn’t require quite the leap of faith” as Natal, it seems ”oddly somewhere between” Wii and Natal but looks ”a great bridge technology”.
”Natal looks like a breakthrough idea – like any breakthrough idea, you never know how large an audience it’s going to realize. But it’s certainly very compelling for a number of game concepts I’ve got in my mind and my teams are working on,” Riccitiello tells IndustryGamers.
”And I find it very compelling. I think the challenges around it is that there’s a lot to be worked out – it’s not something consumers have interacted with before.”
Sony’s motion controller ”seems oddly somewhere between what Nintendo has out and what Microsoft announced. It’s probably less jaw-dropping just to look at it. On the other hand, it’s an engineering prototype so it’ll probably be jaw-dropping by the time they bring it to market.”
”But probably more importantly is that it looks like a great bridge technology, meaning you’ll be able do a lot of things that you could never do before with game platforms. And it doesn’t require quite the leap of faith that Natal does.”
That’s what publishing giant EA thinks, but what do you think videogame consumer?
Too large a ‘leap of faith’?
