Sega does what Nintendon't: make prototypes for Project Natal games

If anyone can make good motion games, it's Sega.

So... if you take the speculation, the "maybes" and "probablys", we know that Sega made a prototype of a Natal game playable at E3.

Joystiq could create a "quickies" area for those one-sentence news, instead of being, huh... creative.

Lord know I want to lose some weight like the chubby Sonic.

i think nick arcade was the first game to do stuff like this remember when the winning team was inside of a game in the final round. That is what this basicly is not to high tech if you think of it

At first I read Super Star Wars' in there for some reason.

What's with me? I thought the Fable 3 screen looked like Anakin and Obi Wan and now this?

They just don't make gaming commercials like they used to.

don't descendants come after...?

"the EyeToy, which happens to be a direct descendent of the Move's PlayStation Eye camera"

So the EyeToy way a time-travelling peripheral from the future? Interesting.

Too bad anything from sega will have 1/3 of the content stripped out before it makes it to US shores or be released during the same week as other blockbuster titles

I am pretty sure it will be a new Super Monkey Ball game.

i don't want it to fail, but natal, imo, will be just like the original eyetoy

I thought for a second that a proper Space Channel 5 was going to Natal, despite the fact that that's another franchise that's been begging Sega for a Wii revival (after Samba, NiGHTS, and House of the Dead)

I'd play with that.

If Natal has Space Channel 5, then I will be getting it on launch day!

Up, down, up, down, chu, chu, chu!

SPACE CHANNEL

Just bring back Para Para Paradise!

I really hope Star wars force unleashed has Move support, we were promised a Star wars game on Wii for ages and have yet to see one ¬_¬

Light Saber battles online ftw!

SPACE CHANNEL

Yeah I'm trying to really figure what Natal is going to revolutionize that tossing a camera on the Wii with a bit of support software wouldn't do ?

Its supposedly sporting facial recognition .... and what camera worth its salt doesn't have that in spades, but it can detect facial expression ..... again I say decent cameras can detect if the subject is smiling or not so .....

And the Sony move (blegh horrible name) just uses camera based motion tracking of colored balls which has been around for years and years only on a larger scale in the Mocap industry (see guy in black suit with white pingpong balls appended)

The whole get active with the game is the Wii's schtic and I'm hard pressed to see anything that will come from the Natal or the *shudders* move that without first party support, isn't going to simply be something needlessly tacked onto an existing game or the encroaching onslaught of PS360 shovelware.

Because implementing these technologies is stupid easy ......while implementing them well and in a meaningful manner that furthers the immersive experience of your game is costly and time consuming. Which is why most third party companies don't bother with things like this .....

Since you can use objects with Natal, I would expect (and hope for) Samba de Amigo with real maracas.