Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer's Xbox 360 release schedule (update: Amazon UK too!)

Time for some more salacious prognostications about the future, courtesy of the wily folks over at vg247. The team there claims to have obtained internal documents from UK video game retailer GAME that lists the release dates for forthcoming Xbox 360 titles. The listing is headlined by new iterations of Crysis, Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid, but the highlight for us gadget junkies is at the very end: Yoga Natal, scheduled for an October release. Now, even if this doc comes straight from the horse's mouth, game release dates are notoriously prone to fluctuation, so let's not read too much into that October date. What's intriguing is that Microsoft does indeed seem intent on creating specialist games for its Natal experience, and it may be that they'll all include Natal in their titles to make compatibility abundantly clear. Or this may be just a big bad April 1-related hoax, we'll live either way.

[Thanks, Matt R.]

Update: We've now also discovered a pulled Amazon listing for Yoga Natal, and we've stashed a screenshot of its Google Cache version just after the break [Thanks, Ian].

[pika2000 Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:04AM]

I guess it will be harder to cheat on this one. :P

[Pedobear Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:06AM]

i'd "bing" it

[cjschrissouth Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:16AM]

oh god.....wii fit for 360

[Wiggy Fuzz Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:44AM]

@cjschrissouth

HD wii fot for the 360. lets not give nintendo any ideas now.

[jimbonics Posted Mar 29th 2010 9:32AM]

@cjschrissouth

Controllerless and Balance Boardless yoga for the 360.

[HamThrax Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:20AM]

I want Halo: Reach on Natal, so instead of throwing the remote, I can drop-kick my LCD.

[Dellibedaboss Posted Mar 29th 2010 12:26PM]

@HamThrax

HAHAHA!!! I seen pics of the early damage from Wii-motes. I can't wait to see pics of people who hurled themselves thru their brand new LCDs and broken living room furniture....smh.

This is also coming from a person (myself) that DREAMS of playing Madden w/ Natal... I can only imagine how disastrous living rooms will get whenever that happens...

[TheGM Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:39AM]

I wonder if it'll come with a bundled game like Wii Sports.

[Sharuk Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:43AM]

SWTOR for XBOX 360? Hmm.

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 29th 2010 11:01PM]

@Sharuk

KOTOR!

[RadiXe Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:45AM]

If Move and Natal end up like nintendo and its' wii (read: shovelwares and turning into fisher price) i'm seriously going to be pissed. all signs point that way so far, a dissapointing picture of the future.

DON'T SCREW IT UP SONY & MICROSOFT!!

i have already accepted the fact that an increasingly vast majority of the games out are shit( you can thank wii & ds for that), just don't make it 100%.

[petebob796 Posted Mar 29th 2010 4:03AM]

@RadiXe Got to agree still love wii sports and sports resort, just not much else to use on it.

[KarlW Posted Mar 29th 2010 8:14AM]

@petebob796

Warioware is good. Get some friends round, get drunk, get high, play some insane japanese minigames. Good times.

Mario kart is also good.

[The Madman Posted Mar 29th 2010 9:40AM]

@petebob796 And how could you miss Super Smash Bros. Brawl?

[MrDiSante Posted Mar 29th 2010 11:18AM]

@The Madman
Cause you have the better Super Smash Brothers Melee on the GameCube.

[The Madman Posted Mar 30th 2010 8:22AM]

@MrDiSante ... And the Wii.

I actually like the latest game, and why not? Gamecube controllers are the only way to play, though...

[rotarydialz Posted Mar 29th 2010 4:00AM]

They have to copy. They can't help themselves.

[jubjub Posted Mar 29th 2010 4:38AM]

@rotarydialz Move is a copy, Natal is similar, but different enough.

[pedmart Posted Mar 29th 2010 4:09AM]

if Natal is not the final hardware or software name... i don't think this Yoga natal would be accurate.. i'm not really sure about this one.

[fast Posted Mar 29th 2010 4:26AM]

Hope it comes out on time and people crack it and hack a nice API for it like the nice cool API they did for the wii controls. Real time motion control for the masses.

[ollybow905 Posted Mar 29th 2010 6:24AM]

i work for game our release schedule is only 70% right at best

[ChrisSsk Posted Mar 29th 2010 6:50AM]

bad name, reads like Yoga for women who are about to give birth.

[decypherSMC Posted Mar 29th 2010 12:17PM]

@ChrisSsk Which is probably what this game actually in, just forgot the pre

[Raffi256 Posted Mar 29th 2010 7:37AM]

Yoga seems like a good fit for the technology. Would rather have some kind of martial arts thing though.

[Jason B Posted Mar 29th 2010 11:24AM]

@Raffi256

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4d5anfjnA

[s1xtyn1n3 Posted Mar 29th 2010 8:41AM]

When I used to work at GAME years ago, their release schedules meant nothing until it had a complete date, not just the month. Titles with a seemingly guessed month of release were added just to drive preorders.

[chrisnorth Posted Mar 29th 2010 11:27AM]

Metal Gear: Rising sept. 2010. WHAT!!! no way that'll happen but, if it does (awesome) i should be done Peace Walker by then. Now when can pre-order.

[Khalid Shahin Posted Mar 29th 2010 2:58PM]

Ever wonder what the bottom of YOUR shoe looked like? Well *SNAP* there it is.

[WAldenIV Posted Mar 29th 2010 5:52PM]

Skate 3 comes out in May, for what it's worth. That list may not be all that accurate.

[FORDY Posted Mar 30th 2010 2:00PM]

I tweeted this over, if you check out Bittechs article they also have info regarding Call of Duty 7 (Rumoured "Black Ops") to be released October, and Crysis 2, among other titles not mentioned here.

[FORDY Posted Mar 30th 2010 2:06PM]

Also, Play.com had Yoga Natal listed for £17.99 before taking it down, if you want to put a price up.

Theres also a DVD version that is still available and works without a Natal camera:
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/9224758/Gaiam-Post-Natal-Yoga/Product.html

(View with the second with a sense of humor hat screwed on ;))

[techlord Posted May 28th 2010 4:22PM]

Sold my wii cause of lack of HD graphic, defintie pick up the 360 natal.