Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer's Xbox 360 release schedule

[Ironman273]

Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer's Xbox 360 release schedule (update: Amazon UK too!)

By Vladislav Savov posted Mar 29th 2010 3:01AM

Time for some more salacious prognostications about the future, courtesy of the wily folks over atvg247. The team there claims to have obtained internal documents from UK video game retailer GAME that lists the release dates for forthcoming Xbox 360 titles. The listing is headlined by new iterations ofCrysis, Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid, but the highlight for us gadget junkies is at the very end: Yoga Natal, scheduled for an October release. Now, even if this doc comes straight from the horse's mouth, game release dates are notoriously prone to fluctuation, so let's not read too much into that October date. What's intriguing is that Microsoft does indeed seem intent on creating specialist games for itsNatal experience, and it may be that they'll all include Natal in their titles to make compatibility abundantly clear. Or this may be just a big bad April 1-related hoax, we'll live either way.

[Thanks, Matt R.]

Update: We've now also discovered a pulled Amazon listing for Yoga Natal, and we've stashed a screenshot of its Google Cache version just after the break [Thanks, Ian].

Source:

Engadget

Woohoo. Yoga. :|

[mad_onion]

Most of the use of Natal is going to be for "Wii like" games. Except obviously a yoga game is going to work a lot better on Natal than it could on the Wii.

tbh, I think that use a Natal in a FPS for example is always going to a gimmick, the accuracy/latency of it makes it inappropriate.

What are people expecting that Natal is going to be used for if not sports/exercise games.

[Hedon]

tbh, I think that use a Natal in a FPS for example is always going to a gimmick, the accuracy/latency of it makes it inappropriate.

Well, MS did say the latency part would be the same as the latency in their wireless controller. Accuracy is another story though.

[George P Global Moderator]

I don't see why you can't use it in a FPS with a specific gun type accessory with the game. It'd be like the light gun arcade games in a sense, but wireless and so on. I think it can be done if the devs are creative enough to pull it off.

[XCalvin]

it says the publisher is tradewest wouldnt it be published by microsoft?

[HawkMan]

it says the publisher is tradewest wouldnt it be published by microsoft?

why ?

[____]

I wonder if MS will make a first party exercise game. It would be a great opportunity to use their patent for making avatars as fat as the player and they could use achievements as the hot dog on a stick to keep people exercising.