Tuesday 8 June 2010

Presenting: the next generation of button mashers

If anyone still had any doubts about how Natal was going to work in the hands of the average man, Parade magazine has got you covered. Your toes would curl from the embarrassment if you weren't already crying with shame.

On the one hand, it's a classic example of people with absolutely no clue of what they're doing, trying to do the thing they can't do with as much enthusiasm as they can muster; why the woman feels the need to fire off all four limbs in a neverending fit is something known only to her. On the other hand, it's depressingly similar to how those exact same people use the Wii, believing that raw energy is somehow a substitute for accuracy as though the mysterious whirring box under their television is a sentient robot from a 1940s sci-fi serial.

Of course, anyone who has played a video game for more than an hour will be well aware of this, but then they'll likely be too busy wondering how a large, sweeping motion is in any way quicker, more accurate or more useful than a button press to actually get around to buying Natal themselves, rendering the whole thing a ridiculously expensive exercise in bandwagoning.

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