WWDC wrapped up!

i know... i know... you can find this article almost everywhere but what kind of fanboy am i if i don't do this ;) so wwdc keynotes last nite in one word: awesome. yeah its a little bit yawning since im no iphoned yet :D but here you go:

1. new macbook pro family: they call macbook a macbook pro now. geee thanks apple -_- but what surprise me from this line is the 15" without vga MBP with a considerable price tag: ~1600 usd. The only family left on macbook is the white one with 999 usd.

2. new macbook air price tag: US$ 1400 for the sata hd and US$1700 for solid state. quite interesting price. consider macbook? go air! ;)

3. OS X Snow Leopard: like i said: snow will come early, and it come with only US$29. Yes, its twenty nine. nothing new in GUI (i think so) but performance said to boosted up to twice. and of course the long awaited OpenCL debut. hope it works :)

4. and the rest is about iphone. for iphone geek it must be really interesting. the launch new one: iPhone 3G S, and the S for Speed. I think they try to counter sony's psp and ds. they showed lots of application and most of them are mindblowing (like check where my iphone stuff).

here you go. wwdc wrapped up. good job apple :)

one happy fanboy down here ;)

Project Natal: a necessary leap of faith?

Okay before you read this post, please note that I own a PS3 and I like it a lot. I'm not sure I am a so-called sony fanboys but its not me to judge. I'll try to post as neutral as I can so please keep your comment clean.

E3 has passed and I admit ms capture the spotlight (again). Sony only viewed trailers over trailers like they did the last two year. Okay Uncharted 2 is impressive, God of War 3 is WOW, but nothing really groundbreaking like Project Natal by Microsoft.

But honestly, you can count me as the frontier of skeptical about this project. Its not the first attempt of gaming industry to do motion sensing using a camera. Sony did with eyetoy. It might not be as powerfull as Natal, but for first attempt, I cant complain. However, this project sunk into the deepest water of atlantic ocean. The hype did not even live for long. Not much people using it. But they seem to try again with eyepet but we haven't see realtime test so I won't comment on that.

Now ms came up with project natal which they say will be the future of controller. As a hardcore gamer, I really don't think it gonna survive. Okay its cool, but the problem in such controller are feedback and accuracy. When you use a traditional controller, you know you did something by the feel of pressing a button. In camera based motion sensing, you lost that kind of feature. In the end, you can only 'guess' whether you did it or not. For some kind of game, this kind of feeling is important. Okay there might be some other kind of game that can use this feature, but for a widespread market share, I dont think this will be the controller of the future.

There are reasons why wii cant reach the hardcore market share (don't say they did not try). But motion sensing, even with semi traditional like wii did, is not that success on hardcore market share.