微软CEO确认Natal和新版360会在2010年上市？

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微软首席执行官Steve Ballmer在今天的芝加哥高层俱乐部会议上向与会者表示，新的X360主机将于2010年问世。新主机将配备更加直观自然的用户界面并内置摄像头。如何，听起来是不是与E3上公布的Project Natal不谋而合？

　　TG Daily报道说，Ballmer在就“经济时期交替中创新所扮演的角色”这一话题进行讨论时，提到了新的X360。尽管此前也有不少关于新主机的小道消息，微软官方也从来没有对传闻进行过彻底的否认，但出自公司高层之口，这还是头一回。

　　将Project Natal的体感识别技术与X360合二为一，对微软来说绝对是个相当有效率的做法，从第三方的角度来看，内置有摄像头和支持Project Natal技术的新主机，也可以为专门的游戏提供更好的支持。

　　更何况，Shane Kim曾经向我们保证，Project Natal的首发将会和X360问世时的场面一样盛大。

　　当然，无论微软的新X360是个什么样子，Project Natal的外设周边势必也会同期推出，这样一来不打算升级主机的老X360用户就可以剩下一大笔钱。不过，Ballmer并没有提到当初1UP报道中所说的“新X360在硬件规格上的升级”，这一点比较令人在意，希望官方能够在近期给出更为详细的解释。


消息来源为TGDaily，以下是IGN转载的原文，但貌似原文的描述并没有那么确定：

Earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled Project Natal at its press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Though eager to show off its motion and emotion-sensing capabilities, developers such as Kudo Tsunoda and Peter Molyneux carefully avoided any mention of a release date. The closest thing to such an announcement was the mention that Natal dev kits are already in the hands of third-party developers, with Bungie and Epic Games being specifically named later on during the expo.

This afternoon, though, the Internet lit up with reports of a new Xbox 360 which incorporates Natal's camera. All those reports stem from a single source, an article on tech blog TG Daily. Under the banner headline "Ballmer announces 2010 Xbox 360 at The Executive Club Chicago," the site reported that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had let slip that "a new Xbox 360 will hit the store shelves in 2010" at a presentation at the Executive's Club of Chicago.

However, the quotes above are the words of the TG Daily correspondent Wolfgang Gruener, not of Ballmer. In fact, the famously energetic executive is only directly quoted via two jumbled fragments with a grand total of five words. TG Daily's story reads as follows, with Ballmer's quotes in bold:

"The new device will be equipped with technology that is 'really, really, close' to an actuality. The console, which was described as having a 'natural interface,' will have a built in camera with the ability to recognize movement and voice."

As further evidence, TG Daily refers to its own live blog of Ballmer's presentation--which curiously doesn't mention the Xbox 360 at all. Despite noting such critical events as a lunch break, the two bloggers (who are not credited in the byline) make absolutely zero mention of games or the word "Xbox." The closest the live blog comes to describing anything Natal-like is the following line: "Computers have cameras built in, you can interact with friends, the computer recognizes what you are doing."

Indeed, nowhere in either article are the words "Project Natal" mentioned, raising the possibility that Gruener confused the release of the peripheral--expected next year--with the launch of a new Xbox. What appears to be the sole article on TG Daily to mention Natal by name was written by a different correspondent, who cites a secondary source speaking about a widely discounted rumor of a new Xbox 360 with integrated Natal functions arriving next year.

The official story: When asked about Ballmer's response, Microsoft reps said they did not currently have immediate access to a transcript or recording of the executive's speech. They did, however, offer the following somewhat opaque comment:

"As the Xbox team stated at E3 two weeks ago, we are not even halfway through the current console generation lifecycle and believe Xbox 360 will be the entertainment center in the home for long into the next decade. Project Natal will be an important part of this platform, but we have not confirmed a launch date at this time."

Bogus or not bogus?: Draw. TG Daily's lack of specifics or direct quotes raises some Soviet-era-sized red flags. But if Microsoft has nothing to hide, why can't it deny the claim outright?.

langxi

还是等等确切消息了。。。。。

苍龙888

之前新闻区看到说否认。。。。。
现在说确定。。。。
还是等待。

舞

快出吧，360已经玩腻了

zoujilong

赶紧出质量好一点的新版360吧。

little_gon

新主机是该出了.......都那么多年了,PSP都换了几代了