Namco Bandai's Yozo Sakagami Talks Project Natal At TGS 2009

You don’t need anything but your hands like in Science Fiction films, where people control holographic interfaces by there hands. Being able to do this in reality is very futuristic and exciting.

We have worked with motion capturing in fighting games for quite some time. realistic movement has been one of our strongest interests.

We were all excited, like kids with a new toy. Everyone on the team was coming up with new ideas. We talked about things like how a ball was thrown in a baseball game. We were all quite excited.

In fact, it’d been a while since we had so much fun. We hadn’t recently encountered anything as innovative. On the other hand, the experience itself that people enjoy, really hasn’t changed. But rather to deliver an experience that everyone could imagine and relate to.

Motions and gestures are very real in form, and they are also very personal features. It’s not only about the looks. But how a person moves is also very unique. I think being able to integrate this into a game could be a big step forward.


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