Microsoft's revelation of Project Natal at their E3 press conference was missing any details on a release date, or even a release window. G4 reports that we won't be hearing those details anytime soon. "It's important technology that we've been working on some time and we're not ready to announce the release date or other specifics on that," said Microsoft's John Schappert.
He went on to say that their goal in presenting the new tech was to "show what the future of the Xbox 360 is and, more importantly, to get it in the hands of developers. It's shipping to developers now. Folks are working on games... Our goal was to show you what the future holds for Xbox 360, we'll get into specifics later." This isn't too surprising, since the demos shown looked early in development. But we'll be looking forward to hearing when some actual games will be made using the new device.
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