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Microsoft: Natal Has Five-Year Lifespan

Microsoft's director of product management Aaron Greenberg has said that software will be created for Project Natal for the next five years.

Speaking to CVG, the Xbox exec said, "The richness of the technology is going to really enable experiences that never had existed before. 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.

"Millions of consumers this Holiday will be able to experience Project Natal and this is just the beginning of something that will change the way consumers interact with entertainment and change way our publishing partners think about game development."

When asked how Microsoft viewed accusations that Natal was simply a "jazzed-up EyeToy" 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.

"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.'"

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I mean it is to be expected, you can't say our new device will be for a year, but we shall see how support is.