+ - Project Natal hardware may lose processing chip->
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bomanbot writes "Microsoft reportedly made some changes to the hardware of its upcoming motion-control technology Natal that could make upgrading older games with Natal motion-control impossible.
According to a gamesindustry.biz article, Microsoft removed the chip from the Natal hardware design responsible for processing the "bone system" of the Natal technology, instead opting to use a software solution that offloads the processing into the standard Xbox 360 CPUs.
While this will make the Natal hardware cheaper to produce, the side effect of this decision could be that patching older games to use the Natal features may not be possible any more."
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According to a gamesindustry.biz article, Microsoft removed the chip from the Natal hardware design responsible for processing the "bone system" of the Natal technology, instead opting to use a software solution that offloads the processing into the standard Xbox 360 CPUs.
While this will make the Natal hardware cheaper to produce, the side effect of this decision could be that patching older games to use the Natal features may not be possible any more."
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