Microsoft Unveils Project Natal at E3

Now that E3 is over we have had a moment to catch our breath and look back on the week. The most talked about announcement was Project Natal. LAist contributor Ali Miller to describes her impression of the Natal unveiling:

All eyes were on Microsoft at this year's E3 as Project Natal made its unprecedented debut. When Steven Spielberg took the stage at Microsoft's press conference, he described Natal as something that would eliminate the intimidation that non-core gamers have about handling a controller. In a display reminiscent of Minority Report, Natal was presented as the pinnacle of motion capture technology that will revolutionize the way we think about entertainment.

With Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and the the newly revealed Tony Hawk game Ride, its becoming more apparent that the video game market is starting to become saturated with peripherals. If Natal lives up to everything it claimed to do at E3, we may just see the diminishing of hardware in the home earlier than expected. In either case, we can't help but geek out about Natal, and with a tentative release date of late 2010, a year can't go by fast enough.