Microsoft is releasing Project Natal this fall.  If you haven’t heard, it is a NUI add-on to the XBOX360 that allows for motion-based gaming without the controllers.  This is extremely cool, but I honestly do not think I am going to buy it.  And, it is not because of the $149 price barrier that Gizmodo projects.  I will probably not buy the device because the Wii sucked so bad.  Yes, there were a few fun games here-and-there.  But, most of these were first party games.  And, some (like the New Super Mario Land) barely even used the motion sensors.  In the end, the Wii was essentially a gimmick that for me at only a short lived appeal.  I am lucky enough to have a choice between the 360 and the Wii on a daily basis, and 99 out of 100 times, I chose to go play the 360.  I think this is pretty true for my age demographic.  A number of people I know that have owned the Wii ended up getting a second console.  I think this is because (1) there are very few games on the Wii targeted at gamers my age (not 5-15), (2) motion-based gaming really only works well for a few genres, and (3) playing SD graphics on an HDTV just kind of sucks.  While the 360 does throw HD into the mix, I just don’t see this as being enough for me to really want another motion-based console.

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