Peter Molyneux has recently said that he believes that Natal will eventually be as revolutionary as the PC mouse, if not more so for gaming. He began with giving the mouse its dues by stating that it was a major factor in revolutionising PC gaming and then went on to say that Natal could go on to surpass it or at the very least become just as revolutionary (or bring endless shovelware to consoles, who knows?). Want to hear what he had to say? Of course you do, here is what he said.
“A hardcore gamer’s brain can decipher the emotions through the controller, but for most other people who aren’t used to the controller or find them frustrating, they don’t even begin to get the same emotion.
Maybe Natal is in a way more for them. But I’d say this: IF you’re thinking Natal is going to give you another version of an FPS, you’re just not thinking broadly enough. After all, it was the invention of the mouse that gave us computing as it is today – not the invention of the microprocessor. That’s how we ended up controlling our PCs.
The mouse was the real revolution of the PC – not the Intel processor. And who’s to say Natal [couldn't] end up creating something you and I can’t even imagine now. It forces us to approach technology in a completely different way. Before the mouse, we only had the keyboard… That one little £9.95 device changed everything about computing. And things like Natal can be a bigger change.
My personal opinion is that the first wave of titles [for Natal] that come out will be polished and really good, but they’ll be the obvious stuff. Even when a new console comes out it takes [developers] a while to get our heads round it.”
