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"Xbox Game Room" and Project Natal Launch Details Leaked in CES Interview
Alex Tretrop
Microsoft's Channel 9 developer community site has just accidentally posted an Interview with Robbie Bach, President of the Entertainment & Devices Division with quite a few hours to go before their CES press conference.
In this video, which has just been pulled by Microsoft, Bach starts to discuss details of the "Game Room," a way to bring "retro fun back into gaming." If you go back to October, there was a consumer survey for a virtual Avatar arcade, with one of the titles being "Game Room." Coincidence? I think not!
Quote from Bach on "Game Room" and more after the break
"Well, Game Room in some ways is sort of a retro approach. And it's interesting, there's a generation of people -- sort of my advanced, mature age [laughs] -- who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. They look almost like casual, fun games today -- at the time they were high-end, edgy games -- and so Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market. And bringing that to a very broad audience. And I think what we're gonna find is that when people can get 30 or more of these games, they're gonna love it for the experience. And it's not just you and I who are gonna love it, even the people who would call themselves "hardcore gamers" are gonna say "Oh wow this is fun!" In a retro way. It's sort of like my daughter going to watch Journey. I'm like, this is a band that was playing when I was growing up. And she thinks it's a cool band and I like the music. And I think you're gonna have the same phenomenon with Game Room. We're gonna enjoy the games and they're gonna think it's cool. I think that's very powerful."
He was also asked about how 2010 looked like, where he responded:
"And then you look at what we have coming in the Xbox space, with Project Natal, which I think is going to revolutionize how people think about the gaming business, and actually turn into ...." and also stated that 2010 is "the best consumer year perhaps Microsoft has ever done."
Microsoft also tweeted from their official account and essentially confirmed that this will be at their press conference starting at 9:30 EST tonight.
Check out Microsoft's Official Tweet here
Stay Tuned to T3CH H3LP for our official CES coverage launching tomorrow and updates on what happened at Microsoft's press conference (and CES in general) from Ricardo, our eyes and ears (and camera!) at the show.
