Project Natal Pricing and Release Date Revealed

tekgoblin writes "According to Edge-online.com, their source says that we can expect Microsoft's Project Natal to cost around $149. 'The figure for the standalone unit is significantly higher than a previous sub-£50 estimate, but less than pricing recently suggested by European retailers. It’s also more expensive than Sony’s Natal rival, Move, which will be available later this year with a game for less than $100.'"

Natal is a motion sensing camera for the Xbox

[Michael Woodhams]

not (as it might have been, for all I knew) a new compiler, for example.

Slashdot summaries have this annoying habbit of assuming that because the author is thoroughly familiar with the technology, everyone else is too and you can just reel of project names with no further explaination.

What exactly is Project Natal?

[awjr]

This pretty much sums it up:

http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal/ [xbox.com]

Basically body mapping with face recognition. Quite sweet, but the devil is going to be in the software written for it and unlike the Wii, it isn't part of the 'base' system, so software that is written for Natal will have a smaller user base and will probably cost more.

Sounds like you're a bad source

[Sockatume]

The Xbox 360 Arcade is $199 with two games.

This is the same source that (accurately) tipped them off about Gears of War 3. Edge has a history of only running very robust leaks. They broke news of a clamshell, rechargable, light-up GBA several months before the GBA SP was revealed.

Re:Is this a joke?

[Anonymous Coward]

I dont know, chess [amazon.com] can get expensive as well.

Re:OT: Currency

[Von Helmet]

Why is the parent post flamebait? It's a very well known phenomenon that when US products go on sale in the UK, the exchange rate may as well be 1:1.

Re:Natal is a motion sensing camera for the Xbox

[baxissimo]

Actually it's a stereo depth sensing camera. That makes it able to do things like extracting your 3D skeleton in actual 3-D space rather than just in a 2D plane. So it gives it a lot more versatility than the eyetoy, which was just restricted to a 2D plane.

Re:Natal is a motion sensing camera for the Xbox

[sammy baby]

Natal is a motion sensing camera for the Xbox not (as it might have been, for all I knew) a new compiler, for example. Slashdot summaries have this annoying habbit of assuming that because the author is thoroughly familiar with the technology, everyone else is too and you can just reel of project names with no further explaination.

For real, yo?

• Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3 [slashdot.org]
• Motion Control To Lengthen Console Hardware Cycles [slashdot.org]
• Why Natal Is a Big Deal [slashdot.org]
• Project Natal Release Details Emerge [slashdot.org]
• The Fall and Rise of Motion Control For Games [slashdot.org]
• Sony Demos Natal-Like Control System [slashdot.org]
• Microsoft Announces "Game Room," Confirms Natal For Late 2010 [slashdot.org]
• Details On Natal's Motion Capture Technology [slashdot.org]

And those are just stories on Slashdot mentioning Natal. Not all of them, either.