Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft’s director of product management for Xbox, sat down with CVG and spoke out against Natal as a “jazzed-up Eye Toy,” and hinted at a five-year lifespan for Microsoft’s motion control device.

When asked about the Eye Toy comparisons Greenberg responded:

“We obviously could have done a motion controller if we’d have wanted to do that, but we felt that would be a much more interruptive experience. We had an opportunity here to really do something that’s transformative and brings a whole new category of experiences to life.”

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“Now we’re saying to creators: ‘We can see when you move your hand, when you move your feet, we can track your body. I can stand in front of this sensor and it can recognise my face and know if it’s me, or my brother or my sister.’”

Greenberg then commented on Natal’s future saying:

“The richness of the technology is going to really enable experiences that never had existed before,” he added. “And we’re not just speaking about what we’re doing this year, but I think two, three, four, five years from now as this evolves.

That’s all well and good Greenberg, but where is the software?  Not all of us want to be kicking balls around for five years.

Source: CVG