Natal won’t help to create better content, says Dyack

Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack is an opinionated kind of guy. He’s made his feelings known on quite a few subjects over the years, even picking a fight with NeoGAF over Too Human. Now he’s saying his piece on Microsoft’s Project Natal and it’s not exactly laudatory.

Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack is an opinionated kind of guy. He’s made his feelings known on quite a few subjects over the years, even picking a fight with NeoGAF over Too Human. Now he’s saying his piece on Microsoft’s Project Natal and it’s not exactly laudatory.

Speaking to GamesIndustry about the advent of motion controllers for the PS3 and Xbox 360, Dyack hinted that although he’s interested in new technologies, Silicon Knights may not be getting on board the motion control bandwagon.

“I’m always interested to see how new technologies turn out,” he said. “I’m a big believer in software over hardware. Silicon Knights has always pretty much focused on what can we do as entertainers? I’m sure it’s very possible to have success in those areas, but it’s not something that I really look at and go ‘yes, we’ll definitely do something on that.'”

Dyack added further, “I know a lot of people have expressed excitement and that’s great to see. We want to create games that are very content driven and tell great stories and I don’t see how Natal is going to help me tell a better story or create better content.”

It’s worth noting that Microsoft seems focused on using Natal to bring more casual gamers to the Xbox fold, so the core-geared Silicon Knights may not be their target after all.

Via [GamesIndustry]