Blizzard's Pardo: Natal May Struggle with Spatial Recognition

[RadioactiveSoup]

Blizzard design boss Rob Pardo claims XBox 360 motion-sensing unit Project Natal might not be the wonder-box Microsoft would have us believe.

To quote: "I've got to play with Natal a little bit, and it seems like the difficulty with it is still spatial recognition with moving your hands and doing things," said the exec, speaking at a StarCraft II single-player event in California last month.

"You'd actually still need an interface that you could do that with, and Natal is still going to be pretty imprecise in the way Wii is today," he said.

"I mean, I could see the future one day [allowing it], but I don't know if Natal's it. Maybe it's a step towards it."

Natal's expected to release in late 2010.


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[NexXtTime]

Well, it's still in the early stages of development. I wouldn't expect much of anything to the degree of this project in this amount of time from announcement to release.

[JeffJ]

ill try this out of course... but i mean im too lazy to play my wii... i just cant see my self getting into it. besides shooting people is easier with the trigger and 2 sticks.