Microsoft: 70% av utgivarna gör spel till Natal

Av Anders Norén

Under en intervju med CBC på Consumer Electronics Show sade Microsofts Robbie Bach att mellan 70 till 80 procent av utgivarna i världen utvecklar spel till Project Natal.

“We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace.”

“Part of the reason we showed Natal at [E3 2009] — which is actually a little bit risky to be honest because it’s a new technology, very cutting edge and relatively early in its development — is that we wanted third-party publishers to know that it was real and we wanted them to have developer kits and to get them working on it.

Förra veckan tillkännagav Microsoft att Project Natal – deras rörelsekontrollteknik till Xbox 360 – kommer att lanseras i tid till 2010:s julhandel.