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TGS 09: Kojima More Than Impressed With Project Natal

When grasping his hands on Project Natal for the first time, Konami’s Hideo Kojima was caught smitten by Microsoft’s motion sensing technology, he revealed during a Q&A session at the Tokyo Game Show. He told the crowd that he was shocked by the experience of Natal. “I had to restrain myself from telling everyone I met,” Kojima said.

He believes Natal will raise the bar in all aspects of entertainment and allow people to be connected with their machines in a way that we’ve encountered only in science fiction – I think that he was thinking around the lines of Minority Report, or something like that. Even people who are not gamers can be a part of it because Natal is based on intuition, something that will take video games to a whole new level of interactivity.

“Using Natal, I’d like to come up with a completely new game that no one has seen before. I know I have lots of fans that are loyal to me, and I don’t want to leave them behind. So maybe I can come up with a car that can fly, so my fans can follow me…metaphorically speaking, of course,” Kojima said during the Panel.

[Konami's Kojima, Capcom's Inafune, Sega's Nagoshi discuss Project Natal's potential via GameSpot]

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