From hype to humiliation: Gaming notables
Microsoft's Project Natal has some real promise. It could transform the video game space. It could even catapult Microsoft to the industry lead.
Microsoft is so excited about that possibility that Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, said in a recent interview with MCV that Project Natal will make gamers think that it's a new generation.
"When Natal comes out, it will feel like a new generation has arrived," Spencer told the publication. "I see it as like the launch of the Xbox 360 back in 2005--there will be a launch portfolio of games to support it."
It's a lofty hope. Project Natal is still very much a question mark in the video game industry. It might be a huge success. Or it might be a major failure that didn't live up to the hype.
If it's the latter, Project Natal would follow a long list of video game ideas that never quite made it. Let's take a look at some of the most prominent of those failures.
...Originally posted at The Digital Home