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Ubisoft supporting Natal with 10 games, PS3 motion controller with five

November 30, 2009 in Industry News comments 6

Ubisoft have announced plans to support Microsoft's Natal and Sony's PS3 Motion Controller. They plan on releasing about 10 games in the first 6 months of accessories launch, and 5 games for Sony's Motion Controller. This isn't final and these numbers might change in time.

French publisher Ubisoft, no stranger to waggle, is getting behind Microsoft's Project Natal in a major way, with "around 10 games" planned for the Xbox 360's hands-free motion controller. And it has similar designs on PlayStation 3 motion controller support.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said during a financial earnings calls earlier today that the publisher expects 10 titles to "come for Natal during the first six months of the launch."

"We expect four to five games for [Sony's motion controller]," Guillemot added. "That's the picture at the moment. It can change in the next 12 months."
Sayyed via kotaku.com »
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    ruledbysecrecy Nov 30, 09
    Interesting, very interesting. That's quite a number of games for a peripheral that doesn't even have an official name yet.

    I'm looking forward to what will be done with the PS3 peripherals. I'm a fan of holding things, they inherently seem more dependable, not waving my hands around at nothing. I just don't have faith in the Natal technology yet. I guess only time will tell.

    The demonstrations for the PS3 hardware have been excellent, however whether or not we'll see any worthwhile games designed for it is all in the developers hands. Hopefully we don't get a ton of shovelware. Luckily the cost of developing on the PS3 should set a decent barrier for entry, but that still doesn't guarantee anything unfortunately.
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    Gamesta100 Nov 30, 09
    What's this SUPPROTING you speak of?
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      RabidChinaGirl Nov 30, 09
      It's LPF... he wouldn't be the same without typos / misspells.
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        Sayyed Dec 1, 09
        Lol, thanks RabidChinaGirl.
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    Daweii Dec 1, 09
    So I assume some of those 10 games for Natal may be arcade type experiences, perhaps bowling or something like that. I just don't see Natal doing much more for fleshed out titles, it will work for racing sure. And it may work for body tracking to make you the drummer or guitarist in Rock Band. Other than that I think Natal is what Sony tried with the EyeToy. That camera that had you washing windows and chopping ninjas, because it couldn't do much more.

    Sony also technically have Natal with the Playstation Eye and yet again realised you do need a controller. The Playstation Eye tracks you and does everything Natal can do with the right software. Thats all Natal is, without Milo the really lame voice recognition software Natal wouldn't be impressive. I still think you need a controller, even if the camera allows you to do a walking movement, crouching and stuff. You still need a controller to swing your sword, aim you gun or chop someone up.

    I just see the higher number of games for Natal as many more being aimed as simple movement based activities. Maybe I'm wrong but UbiSoft aren't an exclusive natured company, if they thought the PS3 would be interested in the 5 extra games they would be on the console. Chances are they are just bowling, archery, painting. Simple things like that, things that may actually be detrimental to Natal as people want to play Halo with it and I don't see that happening.
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      Red 9* Dec 1, 09
      To be honest, since the Eyetoy/PSEye has been around since the PS2 era, I never understood why it was considered a revolutionary controller type. I've been playing Antigrav for years already; how is Natal any different, Milo aside?

      Full 3D motion tracking of a controller? That's new.

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