Capcom making "gamer's game" for Natal

By Robert Purchese Published 13 January, 2010

Reviving brand we've not seen in "a while".

Capcom is promising not to treat Natal as a "gimmick", and has revealed that a "gamer's game" is in development for the motion-sensing Xbox 360 camera.

It won't be ready at Natal's launch this autumn, Capcom's vocal business boss Christian Svensson told G4TV, but will be a game from a brand "we haven't seen in a while".

"What we're doing is creating it from the ground up for Natal, in this case," Svensson said. "We're not looking at Natal as, 'OK, here's a little Natal gimmick that we've worked into some existing game.'

"The approach is we're gonna make a 'gamers game' for Natal using something amongst our brand history," he continued. "I know [Keiji] Inafune is really excited about it, he's been very vocal both in Japan and with the media about his vision of what Natal brings. I'm going to have to ask you to wait and see.

"We're not going to be at launch, just to temper the expectations," he added. "We're gonna cook something and it's gonna to take a while to cook."

Keiji Inafune created Mega Man, for what that's worth.

But before all that, Capcom will patch Resident Evil 5 to work with Sony's new motion-sensing toy, the PS3 magic wand. That's out this spring, although Sony's still not officially named the device.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • DonnieDarko333 #1 2 years ago

    hmmmm..a game we haven't seen in a while...no idea. lol

  • Negotiator #2 2 years ago

    Natal the future of gaming, and you can quote me on that.

  • the_dudefather #3 2 years ago

    Chip n' dale: rescue rangers for 360 with online co-op and motion controlled box throwing

    make it happen Capcom!

  • Xerx3s #4 2 years ago

    Natal versus Capcom. You heard it here first.

  • muscleblade #5 2 years ago

    Final Fight or God hand. Maybe Viewtiful Joe.

  • wowami #6 2 years ago

    GhostnGoblins vs Natal

  • penhalion #7 2 years ago

    @wowami

    Don't give them ideas! I like the G & G franchise the way it is i.e. old school and fun.

  • Brodie #8 2 years ago

    Onimusha with motion activated sword swinging. That's my bet.

  • matrim83 #9 2 years ago

    "We're not looking at Natal as, 'OK, here's a little Natal gimmick that we've worked into some existing game.'

    LOL. So they are taking potshots at themselves?

  • Meho #10 2 years ago

    Rival Schools? Or.... Okami 2?????

  • Kazzahdrane #11 2 years ago

    Okami where you have to go on all fours like a wolf. For the whole game.

  • StooMonster #12 2 years ago

    Mega Man?

  • lavalant #13 2 years ago

    Dinocrisis, where you get to punch those fucking dinosaurs.

  • kangarootoo #14 2 years ago

    "and you can quote me on that."

    Gee, thanks. Sock.

  • daver #15 2 years ago

    Kazzahdrane made me laugh out loud. That never happens.

  • dingo75 #16 2 years ago

    Okami where you have to go on all fours like a wolf. For the whole game.

    Well I would let my gf play that game for sure...

  • Spekingur #17 2 years ago

    Street Fighter! Oh, wait.
    Duck Tales? :D
    Turok? There are so many possibly games! Heck, they even have Capcom Bowling (actual name of the game).

  • lucky_jim #18 2 years ago

    I lost all interest in Natal when the reduced specs emerged. Now it doesn't have its own processor, all the nay-sayers who said it was just a jumped-up EyeToy (whom I argued with at the time) have been proved right imo.

  • Red_Bool #19 2 years ago

    A sequel to Zack & Wiki?

    (which is looooong overdue btw)
    Edited by 1 at 13/01/10 @ 09:55

  • Doctor_What #20 2 years ago

    I wouldn't go that far Jim, it still looks as capable as it was before... I'm just uncertain about how capable it was to start off with. I suspect it will be an absolute winner for exercise games, but I'm not sure about anything else. It's going to be an interesting year.

  • Negotiator #21 2 years ago

    Lucky jim, it still does the same thing, in fact using the 360 will reduce lag, so its better.

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #22 2 years ago

    PN03 2!

    I want to have to do my own sexy dancing to shoot robots during sandstorms in my living room, and pretend I'm in Bjork's All Is Full of Love video!

  • robg #23 2 years ago

    in fact using the 360 will reduce lag, so its better - are you joking? You don't think that taking some of the 360's processing power is a bad thing?

    @Mentalist(air) - if I could upvote that more, I would.

  • jambo74 #24 2 years ago

    Hand Shank for 360

  • gav_and_the_gavster #25 2 years ago

    That's some good linking there, Spekingur. My pick from the list would be for a new Demon's Crest game. Not a bloody clue how Natal would go with it, but it's up to Capcom to surprise us all so good luck to 'em.

  • Bander #26 2 years ago

    Mega Man and G&G are not brands that have been absent for long, although G&G appears to be unable to escape from portables.

    I'm hoping for Darkstalkers, but then I always hope for Darkstalkers and it never happens.

  • photoboy #27 2 years ago

    How about a new Duck Tales? The game could come with a pogo stick and Natal can detect when you're bouncing on it!

  • tancredo #28 2 years ago

    Just bring the traditional Ghost n Goblins to the arcade

    Then work on the Natal game.

  • shinki #29 2 years ago

    Dino Crisis? Onimusha? Breath of Fire? Hmmm....

  • Doctor_What #30 2 years ago

    It'll be Onimusha, won't it? I'll second that call for PNO3 2 though :D

  • Ryze #31 2 years ago

    Speculation time!

    Strider?
    Forgotten Worlds?

  • IneptPercy #32 2 years ago

    Gregory Horror Show!!!!!!

    Probably not but I want more!!!

  • GreyBeard #33 2 years ago

    Power Stone III - Believe!

  • Kami #34 2 years ago

    ... I don't want to think about it. Because every game I want to be revived I don't want within 100 feet of Natal...

  • Monkey_Puncher #35 2 years ago

    Strider with full plastic sword support!

  • mister_moo #36 2 years ago

    I'd guess Onimusha as well

    With 127% more Jean Reno

  • JeroenZM #37 2 years ago

    Final Fight. Brawl your way through the living room while lamenting Haggar's absence in recent Capcom games.

  • Phishfood #38 2 years ago

    I'm thinking Megaman or Strider.

  • riz23 #39 2 years ago

    Brodies call on Onimusha makes some sense to me.

  • AllenSpawn #40 2 years ago

    I know it wont work very well with natal.....but please Capcom, can you do an updated version of UN Squadran.
    Still play it on my snes every now and then, and would love to see some more.

  • Kami #41 2 years ago

    The problem is why revive a franchise just specifically for Natal? If a franchise is kind of been gone for a while then maybe, just MAYBE, it had its time. Bringing it back just to force it into what is still ostensibly an eyetoy on crack seems desperate, foolish and actually very dangerous, especially considering some of us are yet to be convinced that controllerless gaming will ever work. Put it this way, controllerless gaming already exists and it's called EXERCISE! And most of us don't find that fun. You can have that one for free.

    And what of franchises that haven't been used in a while? Oniumusha ran its course, and they clearly did try very hard to keep it going but the resultant game was a bastard child of mixed ideas - not knowing whether to go forwards, backwards or stay the same. Dino Crisis may make some sense but again, the idea ran its course (admittedly, Capcom ran it aground with the most stupid sequel idea ever but still...). It's not likely to be a fighting game (I don't even want to imagine how you'd go about playing a fighter without a controller...).

    The elephant in the room is the Eyetoy, and whilst it did indeed have some fun games - let's be perfectly honest here, the majority of stuff for that device sucked more than Paris Hilton at a Mr Universe competition. It's an inescapable feeling that Natal is a bit of a non-starter and as Yahtzee said, a bit of a dead-end all told. Do MS think Natal will revolutionise gaming in quite the same way Nintendo did the last few years? It's a difficult debate.

    I don't want Natal to fail, but equally I don't see the point of Natal. I'm not convinced it's aimed at gamers. I'm not convinced about it at all, and that's not being purposely negative because I love my 360 and the games I play on it regularly. It's going to take more than a revived franchise to get me on the Natal train... especially when you have the deep sinking feeling it may just be another on-railsy shooter affair...

  • Dizzy #42 2 years ago

    It better not be Strider, I don't see myself hangin on the ceiling in front of the tv.

  • RexRunti #43 2 years ago

    Captain Commando? Probably Mega Man or Strider.

  • SpaceMonkey77 #44 2 years ago

    @AllenSpawn
    U.N Squadron/Area 88 was based on a japanese manga from the 80's, so while I too love that game and would love to see a sequel, its highly unlikely, even though there was a reboot Area 88 anime series a few years ago.

    @Kami
    I feel the same about Natal. I understand the reason MS want to go there, but I'm scared that they are going to rely on it too much. I think the last thing we need is a flood of cheesy party games on 360, taking up the shelf space of solid, decent games. Once its out, I'll wait a few months before buying it, until I see some sweet games rise up.

  • JahB #45 2 years ago

    wasn't streets of rage originally by capcom? that would work really well as a natal title.

    until you get exhausted and have to sit down, but it would still be a grand 20 minutes.

  • ongjg #46 2 years ago

    "Capcom is promising not to treat Natal as a "gimmick""

    Unlike the Wii then.

    And they won't ditch it when their games fail.

  • Dreddnaught #47 2 years ago

    SOOOOOOO want it to be Viewtiful Joe, mainly so I can shout "henshin a go-go, baby !!!"

    My shit eating grin would be *this* wide.

  • Kami #48 2 years ago

    "wasn't streets of rage originally by capcom? that would work really well as a natal title."

    Sorry mate, it was a SEGA title and I think SEGA long ago abandoned any hope of reviving it in glorious 3D... however, if you want a SoR game CLICK HERE. It's the fan remake that is practically near completion now, and probably the closest you'll ever get now to a new SoR game.

    Capcom is promising not to treat Natal as a "gimmick"

    I'm taking that with truckloads of salt. I know people are thumbing me down for this but come on, we've had 7 months of nothing but freaking hype now, and no solid results. The only example we've had was Burnout Paradise, which had some pretty severe interface lag issues, which was not a good and promising start in life. The demo at E3 was just that - tech demos, impressive but let's see some real-world examples please. I know people are easily taken in by hype but please, step back and think about it for a moment. Capcom this generation have been really freaking bad about this, they started off with a stonking example of the perfect Wii control system and have since done very little but release on-rails-****ing-shooters for it.

    Even if Natal descends from heaven on the naked breasts of Kelly Brook, smothered in strawberry jam and singing the best songs of the last 25 years - and it may do yet - look at the Wii. That is a system that really has the potential for more. To do more. To be given more. And when it is given that chance, boy does it fly. And most developers have been arsing about with this whole "mature" and "casual" debate that they've forgotten that the Wii really could be/is a great platform for truly inspired games.

    The reason I hold little hope out for Natal is it'll either not work very well, be cynically marketed (look, we've had to remove these features from Natal but in a year from release you'll be able to buy NATAL2, with all the functions back in! For more money! Yay!) or the developers will not have a clue what to do with it. The cynical marketing thing is sadly the most likely, and the reason why if you buy into NATAL now, when NATAL2 is announced with all the functions back in I reserve the right to point and laugh at you.

    I really am that jaded these days. It's not NATAL's fault, not in the slightest, it's a potentially nifty bit of kit... I'm just not sure the market is in a prime position to do anything with it but make shit motion-control party games and the odd gimmick...

  • D34dP1x3l #49 2 years ago

    Its obviously Resident Evil.Haven't had one of them for a month or so.
    Edited by 1 at 14/01/10 @ 01:03

  • Zander #50 2 years ago

    "Its obviously Resident Evil.Haven't had one of them for a month or so." - So true. Umbrella should just f*ck off and die now.
    Mind you could just be another street fighter 2 (Natal super extreme reach around edition).

    Power stone would be a good shout but 4 players waving their arms about in a cramped front room = real fight breaking out!

    "Dinocrisis, where you get to punch those fucking dinosaurs." - yeah those f**cking dinosaurs. hehe