Project Natal Gets Name Change + Price Tag
How much would you be willing to pay for the new Xbox motion control interface. Fifty dollars? One hundred dollars? Guess again! In a bold move (haha, move, get it? Like the PlayStation Move? … shut up I thought it was funny) entirely too reminiscent of Sony’s “five hundred and ninety nine US dollars” PS3 scandal, Microsoft has decided to put the price of Natal far outside of the bounds of what people are actually willing to pay for it.
According to Edge, the price tag for the upcoming motion control camera device will be 149 U.S. dollars. So, lets just stop fooling ourselves and admit that we are paying 150 dollars for this thing, which is only 50 dollars less than you could get an Xbox 360 arcade for. Supposedly, Microsoft will also be selling a motion control bundle which will include an Xbox 360 arcade and Natal together. This bundle will go for 300 dollars making the Natal unit only cost 100 if you consider the console to be sold at full price. This is an improvement but 100 dollars still manages to be more than we would really like to pay, not to mention this totally screws people who already have the system … you know the key market for a device that updates the control interface of a system? It sure isn’t helping that one of the only things we can do with Natal is bounce around a big red ball, and 150 dollars simply isn’t worth it at this point. Perhaps that will change at E3, or perhaps this is going to be another huge financial blunder considering the PlayStation Move will supposedly cost less.
Speaking of E3, Microsoft will make yet another big announcement for Project Natal. That announcement? Well, apparently it won’t even be called Project Natal. Yes, we should have seen this coming, but Project Natal is just that, a project, with a working title. So when Microsoft decides to hold their big two day press conference the Sunday and Monday before E3, we will all finally get to see what Natal’s true name is going to be, and I think I speak for everyone when I say, I just don’t care. I’ve been calling it Natal for a while now. Does Microsoft really think that they are going to push forward their sales by giving it a more casual friendly game name. Then again, remember when the Wii was called the Nintendo Revolution? Perhaps there is something to this.
Anyway, we should be able to get official word on Natal’s real name and price point come this E3, so stay tuned and we will give you all the details. Until then, I’m just going to call it the Microsoft Fuckwiggle and call it a day.
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