What type of “interview” is this!?

From Gamasutra:

BS: I’m definitely curious to know how much of what was shown in the video of Natal before the actual live demo, what percentage of that is real, and what percentage of that is concepts of things you would like to happen.

SK: Well, you know, I actually don’t know the specific answer. I think a lot of it conceptual, what we hope to be real, right, at launch?

BS: Yeah.

SK: It was all not about gaming either, right?

BS: Right.

SK: You’ve got your friends there, and you’re dressing your avatar… that’s a completely plausible scenario, right? Will that be real, actually — will someone do that when we launch? We’ll see. But the ability to digitize objects? That’s the kind of stuff that we absolutely expect to be real.

BS: It seems like with this skateboard-scanning scenario, that’s some hardcore technology to be able to do that and extract a background and actually make skateboard scanning. That was one that stuck out for me, like, “That one would be tough.”

SK: It’s like Milo — I mean, the piece of paper with the drawing.

BS: Right, that’s true.

SK: That would be scanned in, too. So, look, I agree that those are the tough challenges that we have to solve, but that’s why the power of Natal is not about the hardware. The power is actually in the software. That’s where the magic happens.

BS: Yeah, I’m really curious to see how that Milo thing goes, considering — I mean, you obviously can’t have thousands of different ways of saying every name that exists.

SK: It will take time to build the vocabulary, you know, right? And so forth. But the promise is there, absolutely. The promise is there.
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Talk about a creampuff interview! And note how the Microsoft exec is now openly admitting that the Natal video was faked, of what they ‘hope’ it to be at launch. Well, then! This would put the E3 2009 Natal video on par with the E3 2005 Sony Killzone 2 trailer that was cgi, right?

I suspect Natal was devised not by engineering teams or the gaming team but by the marketing team. They thought it would be the coolest thing to market. Unfortunately, no one at Microsoft thought over the gaming and engineering issues with it too well. As I said at E3, Natal, as is shown, will never be coming out. Microsoft will keep delaying and delaying and then come out with some mediocre product that is nothing like what was shown at E3 2009.

What is funnier is that Microsoft’s Marketing can’t even get Natal right. Look at this photo.

The hands don’t match!

Consider this joke of an interview to a typical interview of Nintendo. All Nintendo gets asked is, “When is Wii HD coming out?” “Where are the hardcore games?” “Is Nintendo doomed?” They just ask those three questions, or a deriviation of them, over and over. But in something like that Gamasutra interview, the interviewer sounds more like a cheerleader. “Yeah!”

‘Concept’ video my casual rear end! There was another company who had a ‘concept video’ of what they wanted their product to be at launch.

I’m tired of all the BS. It is a shame this industry hasn’t crashed again for it would be doing its customers a favor. At the rate it is going, the customers are going to desire to crash the industry themselves just to get the blatant marketing and game websites posing as ‘journalist sites’ to stop.