That is so bad news for the 360 fans... Microsoft is trying to save money so Natal ccan be cheaper, but will eventually make that all game have to be custom addapted and downgraded to be used in Natal. 10-15% is a lot of processing power required.
I do now Sony motion tech will also need the cell to run, but has been said only needed 1 SPE. And since few games were able to use all SPEs would be far easier to make games use the motion tech withouth any downgrade. As example one of the best looking games, Resident Evil:5 is already running on it.
Because the motion tech will not use the multipurpose core of the Cell, the Sony tech won't need to downgrade games that run with it.
Only game I think that there will no way to run the motion without downgrade would be Uncharted 2, since Naughty Dog said the used each SPE processor to its limit. They would need to better optimize the code or we would see some few effects on screen.
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