Bill Gates reckons Natal should head to PC too

Nice find although this is a little different.

LOL nice vidGuy!


This will be a success for PC.


This will also be an epic FAIL for 360.

Bill Gates, 7 October 1997: “What I am saying is that I’m optimistic enough to believe that within the next decade, we will see progress to a level that for things like dealing with data in a spreadsheet or text in a word processor, or navigating the Internet, you will find the speech interface has enough accuracy that it becomes a primary way of interacting with the machine.”

He's constantly said the same, and more, about voice recognition, that we'd ALL be speaking to our computers by now and keyboards would be a relic from the past.

Um, no, humans are LAZY and moving our fingers about a bit is much less effort.

Yea and then Nintendo came along and changed what is considered "Mainstream". Not only that but this could give him a boost to have something over Apple since so many of these people who would use it already have the quadcores and i7s and soon to be i5s. A quadcore should handle the tech to run this with no problem

Hey Joystiq, I did not respond to the person you put it under. Just thought I would let you know theres an ongoing problem. still.

its like a joystiq portal

its like im going back.... to the future

July 15, 2009

Cop: Mr. Gates, come with us. We're here to arrest you for the future crime of forcing motion controllers on the hardcore gamers. We have you surrounded. There is nowhere to run.

Bill:....Everybody runs. (busts through window)

Finally someone makes some sense!

I honestly believe Natal will bring a lot of casual (read: Wii owners) gamers to the Xbox-360. And I guess that's what Microsoft wants.

I really don't see how any core game will use Natal as anything more than a gimmick, you know, the games that actually make people prefer the Xbox instead of the Wii.
For gods sake. They're saying that Halo: Reach might use Natal!

I hope I'm wrong, but all I can see is Natal taking Microsoft away from it's core business - the games, and investing in the casual market, flooding the Xbox scene with hundreds of gimmicky/crappy games.

Xbox 360 doesn't even the Natal as exclusive hardware.

Don't tell me that it is exclusive because it runs on Windows, because 90% of the world runs Windows. How's that exclusive at all?

Are you seriously twelve? I guess I never even considered the fact that some of the people I have e-conversations with on a daily basis could be unable to get into PG-13 movies on their own. Not that it matters, I suppose, it just never crossed my mind.

And if you're actually asking, Minority Report is a pretty okay sci-fi movie from the early oughts that has some pretty crazy ideas of what the future could be.

Jerkface you CANT be TO surprised that their are 12 year olds on this site.....look at most of the commentary....

Hell I was MORE shocked months back when Sony had that Fat Princess contest on facebook.....it was a LOT of old heads that posted pics on there....some of which HAD to be in their 40's or more....I mean it was Silver haired people on there....nothing wrong with that...but just shocking....hell I know I will be 50 playing games still....lol

I'm 12 and get into PG13 movies scot-free.

The PG13 rating isn't restricted.

I believe Jakka was being facetious

hahaha amen Chris D.

Jerkface, of course I'm a twelve year old pirate - everybody who owns a PC is.

In all seriousness, I was just playing up on the stereotype :P

"I'm 12 and get into PG13 movies scot-free.
The PG13 rating isn't restricted."

pwned.

Haha, Gordo, that made me smile.

Take that, ratings!

Not that movie ratings mean anything in the US. They're recommendations and theaters can admit the under age crowd to any restricted film. There are no laws on the subject. Of course, the public boycott and refusal of the MPAA to sell reels to that theater would bury them, but getting in isn't a major feat.

Someone's not up on there memes, huh? And on the internet of all places? For shame.

He's talking about the 3 half-naked psychic chicks in the movie 'Minority Report'.

http://routingbyrumor.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/agatha-precog-550x250.jpg

It would just be easier if you saw the movie.

It's a good flick that's definitely worth watching.

I did see the movie.. I just don't get the shaved cats analogy.

I feel the need, the need for speed...

which will be available in 2010 for use with Natal.

Initial cost estimates have ranged from USA Today's calling for $200 (based i think on a loose estimate of the costs of parts involved), to Pachter's estimate of $50 (though he said this would be at a significant loss for MS, but necessary to make Natal competitive)

Why'd you switch to a Mac? :/

Yes, because Microsoft are going to release a major piece of hardware/software they've developed onto their biggest competitors platform. Smart thinking.

"Why'd you switch to a Mac?"

He must have wanted to be one of the 'cool' kids.

Releasing Natal would for Mac would be like releasing Halo Reach for PS3. As the great Christian Bale once said "Just think for one fucking second!"

I happen to be an occasional videoblogger, I make movies and write books. (Yes, 12-year-olds CAN do those things.)

And plus, Windows wasn't cutting it for me and my fam's dinosaur of a Dell refuses to work for me.

Why are you complaining? Ever heard of Boot Camp, where you can easily run Windows and other operating systems on Macs with Intel processors?

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+1 fo switching over to the more supperior machine.
espesially if since you "make movies" and "write books"
also macs are great for music making.

everyone i know has lefted pc and switched to mac since the mac is more user friendly (this is my oppinion), you have control over your computer unlike pc where half the time you have hackers running your pc.

no im not an apple fanboy im still running on windows 7beta (which sucks) and cant wait to convert over to a mac!!

Str84rumbk,

"you have control over your computer unlike pc where half the time you have hackers running your pc". I'll stop you right there. The only time such a situation would arise is if you were so incompetent as to A) not have a firewall, B) not have a decent anti-virus solution, C) visited sites known for compromising the integrity of unprotected systems (say, porn sites that tried automatically running scripts to let someone else into your system), and D) downloaded email attachments from addresses you've never seen before. As a substitute in sex ed once so eloquently said, "If you knowingly sleep around without wearing a rubber, it'd be your own damn fault for getting the clap."

I know Windows is a popular punching bag for its various issues (some quite legitimate) and while Microsoft does try to address them (albeit much later than it should), what the company can't do is protect their operating system from the dumbass sitting behind the keyboard who, by all rights, shouldn't be allowed to touch anything more sophisticated than a light switch. I wonder if Apple's new marketing campaign could be, "Apple computers: protecting idiots from themselves since _____ (either when the company was first founded or when Jobs came back to the helm)".

"everyone i know has lefted pc and switched to mac since the mac is more user friendly (this is my oppinion)"

I sure hope Mac is more user-friendly if it has you to contend with.

macs are only more user friendly for retarded people

Ease up Dark Wayne, not every Mac user is a retard.