Wii-killing?

The Time Magazine Tech blog weighs in on The Xbox Motion Camera Thingy:

I’m not really the target audience for Natal, as a member of the hardcore set who actually likes the Xbox controller. But playing Burnout with no controller, just holding up your empty hands like a steering wheel and pushing your foot forward to accelerate, that is an intense experience. And this is just straight Burnout code, in no way optimized or adapted for Natal. When people start dedicating teams to writing for Natal, very interesting things will happen. I don’t think it’s particularly an exaggeration to say that this is a potentially Wii-killing innovation. That guy Alex Kipman, the Brazilian engineer who walked me through how Natal works, is seriously clever. Microsoft as corporation doesn’t get much credit for innovating, but you gotta hand it to the Xbox division: between that and Live, they do bring significant new tech to market.

via Thoughts About Microsoft’s Project Natal, E3, Halo, etc. – Nerd World – TIME.com.