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Project Natal prototype looks small, like an evil robot photo

Compared to older promotional images for Microsoft's motion-sensing Project Natal device, which I guess at this point could be referred to as concept shots, the real controller seems to be more compact. Of course, we don't know what the final product looks like; this is simply a prototype that developers are using.  Note the tacked-on GorillaPod.

The Seattle Times' Brier Dudley snapped the infamous picture, and notes that the same manufacturer tasked with producing the newest line of iPhones for Apple, Pegatron Technology, is also responsible for creating Natal controllers for Microsoft.

Unfortunately, there are still no answers to the one question we all want acknowledged: how much will this thing cost?

Report: New iPhone, Xbox Natal to be made in same factory [Seattle Times via Siliconera]








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ProperlyParanoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:34
ProperlyParanoid
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:36
Chris Carter
OOOOOOOOH I was beaten! Damnit Mirax!
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:38
Tubatic
Red Ring of Death, now with the Red Dot of Hip Injury.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:42
Monodi
@Mirax

Daaaaaaaaisyyyyyy daaaaaiiisssssyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
RenegadePanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:53
RenegadePanda
I think it's looking for John Conner.
HoodedMiracle's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:53
HoodedMiracle
It looks like it'll rape me.

Another reason I don't want a 360.
NoJ87's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:53
NoJ87


Johnny 5....ALIVE!
HEL105's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:55
HEL105
I just don't...I just...ugh.
Daniel Carneiro's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 18:56
Daniel Carneiro
@HoodedMiracle: oh wow, well then you're really lucky! Obama just passed a new law, you don't have to buy things you don't like anymore. God bless america!
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:02
Xzyliac
@n0brein
I knew he wasn't as bad as they said he was!

4 MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS!
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:04
runtheplacered
This just in.. anonymous people on the internet don't like something.
HoodedMiracle's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:09
HoodedMiracle
@n0brein: You serious? Snap!
Magic Whiskey's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:10
Magic Whiskey
Otacon works for Microsoft now?
ikiryou's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:11
ikiryou
Sony's magical motion dildo will soundly defeat this, especially with the 21-45 aged female demographics (Pre-Natal care is a bore).

Bonus Ill-conceived Flame Initiator: "I wonder what its failure rate will be?"
Infamy's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:12
Infamy
LOL thank God Natal looks so sleek today because if it looked like that at release people would be scared shitless.
JiR INC's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:12
JiR INC
wait.. is that a lazer O.O
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:14
Xzyliac
@ikiryou
Respectfully I disagree...I'd say 11+.
DrEvil's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:17
DrEvil
finally... my barbeque equipment will be complete.
I can't wait
ace of knaves's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:18
ace of knaves
I refuse to believe someone designed that without intentionally making it appear evil. I mean come on! That thing reeks malevolence.
DrEvil's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:20
DrEvil
@Ifamy...it still looks/is like shit
Paul Soth's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:30
Paul Soth
God, how many of those MS Equipment asset-tags did I peel off at Redemtech?
KingSigy's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:33
KingSigy
Oh no. A terminator...I mean, crappy peripheral.
RenegadePanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:37
RenegadePanda
Apparently no one also realizes this is a Natal unit with no outer shell.

The real thing won't look like that, obviously.
Black Nexus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 19:59
Black Nexus
a glance at the thing and the word BORG snapped into my head, not a first impression you want to leave.
HEL105's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 20:05
HEL105
I think we should all just surrender now, voluntarily accept our new masters, and save ourselves decades of war and destruction.

Besides, I'm actually looking forward to being enslaved by a terminator that looks like Summer Glau.
's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 20:48
Diyana
It looks like something the brain would make in 9.
hpv's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 21:10
hpv
That's not a controller, that's a camera.
TurboKill's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 21:20
TurboKill
We all know the damn thing will cost an arm and a leg and will be a flop and demand an immediate price drop.
charizard del chainsaw's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/04/2010 21:34
charizard del chainsaw
GAH!
it's a Bomba from Shadow Complex! except in IRL!
EnigmaticHarle's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2010 00:20
EnigmaticHarle
Motion sensing, class 1 laser? I smell burnt Sony fanboys... or probable disembowelment.
RichardBlaine's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2010 00:49
RichardBlaine
Well I think most people can agree that the Natal showing at E3 was disappoi...What's that Natal?...Yes, of course master...Sony will be no more...
Gilgamesh1317's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2010 02:07
Gilgamesh1317
Miloh is in there, plotting to kill us all.
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2010 03:43
Sir playedallot
The cool thing about Natal is: Lots of open mindet people defending Heavy Rain for its uniqe gamplay, because its trying somthing fresh and new bitching and flaming about natal...funny
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2010 04:10
Qraze
Sir playedallot, what exactly is natal doing that's so fresh and new? motion control? eye toy already did it. voice control? seaman and hawx already did it. the only difference is its microsoft that's doing it. i do hope it succeeds but its not gonna be the end-all for-all experience to this industry. but than again, nothing is.

#5 is alive!
Anna Hannah's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/14/2011 04:48
Anna Hannah
It's a shame, because The Who used to actually be better live than in their studio albums, as Live at Leeds shows.
Best regards, Anna, CEO of iscsi initiator windows 2008 r2 and i tunes
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