Microsoft's own Channel 9 developer community website let the news slip that a virtual game room is in the works for the Xbox 360. A video interview was originally posted on the site but has since been removed that showcased a virtual arcade "Game Room" for your Avatars.
According to a further transcript releases from Joystiq, Project Natal is also on track to be released at some point in 2010.
The Microsoft Keynote for this year's CES Vegas will begin at 9:30PM EST (it is now 8:45PM EST).
Well, Game Room in some ways is sort of a retro approach. And it's interesting, there's a generation of people -- sort of my advanced, mature age [laughs] -- who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. They look almost like casual, fun games today -- at the time they were high-end, edgy games -- and so Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market. And bringing that to a very broad audience. And I think what we're gonna find is that when people can get 30 or more of these games, they're gonna love it for the experience. And it's not just you and I who are gonna love it, even the people who would call themselves "hardcore gamers" are gonna say "Oh wow this is fun!" In a retro way. It's sort of like my daughter going to watch Journey. I'm like, this is a band that was playing when I was growing up. And she thinks it's a cool band and I like the music. And I think you're gonna have the same phenomenon with Game Room. We're gonna enjoy the games and they're gonna think it's cool. I think that's very powerful.
According to a further transcript releases from Joystiq, Project Natal is also on track to be released at some point in 2010.
The Microsoft Keynote for this year's CES Vegas will begin at 9:30PM EST (it is now 8:45PM EST).