Project Natal : innovation in video games
Microsoft is definitely innovating this year. Windows 7, Windows Phone, Bing... you name it! But the break through innovation might be for the XBox : the Project Natal.
Nintendo had a great idea with its brand new remote controller you could shake or move to play. But Xbox is going further : no controller. You can use your Xbox thanks to your body or voice. It's just incredible.
This will enable Microsoft to have a great competitive advantage. If the next generation of Xboxes has a Blu-Ray reader, I can't see what Nintendo could do. (Just forget about Sony who claimed that real video games players will realize that these new ways of playing might be attractive in the beginning because they changed the old habits, but they will soon come back to video games with controllers.)
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If Microsoft makes half of what is shown is this video, not only will they change the rules of video games competition, but they could also extend this innovation to computers (a possible alternati