“When we invent something first like Natal, while we have a researcher working with the product group for the first version we already have a researcher thinking about the second version down the road,” said Hon. “We certainly hope we will continue to be holding that technology.”

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“We have very strong first and third-party developer support for [Natal],” Mindy Mount, Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, said at the Jefferies Annual Global Technology Conference today. “Needless to say, we’re putting some of our best people on coming up with great game ideas for this, and we’re going to have some great stuff.”

Microsoft has already announced that some rather large third-party developers are already working on titles for the motion controller, among them the  likes of Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, EA, Square Enix, THQ and Ubisoft.

“As a history, Microsoft works very strong with third-party developers, so we’re hoping that we’re going to get some great titles from that. You’ll be able to see more news about that this summer at E3,” she said.

“We’ll show you the full lineup.”

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“The richness of the technology is going to really enable experiences that never had existed before. And we’re not just speaking about what we’re doing this year, but I think two, three, four, five years from now as this evolves.”

He then Refutes the comparisons to the PS2′s eye toy.

“We obviously could have done a motion controller if we’d have wanted to do that, but we felt that would be a much more interruptive experience. We had an opportunity here to really do something that’s transformative and brings a whole new category of experiences to life.”

“Now we’re saying to creators: ‘We can see when you move your hand, when you move your feet, we can track your body. I can stand in front of this sensor and it can recognise my face and know if it’s me, or my brother or my sister.”

Greenberg  confirmed that Natal is just a  codename and that the full name for it could be revealed as early as E3.

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The event was announced early last week  when Microsoft noted that Project Natal as well as Alan Wake, Crackdown 2, Fable III, Halo: Reach, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Final Fantasy XIII, Xbox Live’sGame Room and new content for Left 4 Dead 2 will making appearances.

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“If you were going to make a Natal game, it probably wouldn’t be Forza 3,” stated Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360. “What we want to do with Natal is bring entirely new original experiences to life  these are going to be brand new original games.”

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