IN THEORY there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. For anyone - my hand is up - who was suckered by Peter Molyneaux's grandiose presentation on Project Natal and Lionhead Studio's freakish Milo demo at E3 in 2009, we bring you satisfying succour for the soul.

Molyneaux has a history of quixotic proclamations on next generation games technology and so it was at E3 2009. He is after all the word of God, well the word of God games to be precise.

According to Molyneaux, Natal would be, quite literally this time, a game changer: "What designers and what this industry does with Natal will change the landscape of games that we play."

He went to mention that he had been "waiting 20 years" for this technology to come along and said: "This is true technology that science fiction hasn't even written about and this works today. Now."

So praise be to Jonathan Ross' son for posting a 34 second You Tube clip of his dad playing Natal yesterday. Molyneaux's 20 year vision and grandiloquent claims are renounced in the wing beat of a quark after Wossy junior says, "Alright. Go for it Dad."

It's not the lag issue. It's not that we're only seeing one of several tech-demos Microsoft has for Natal. It's not even - and I can't believe I am saying this - man-child Wossy flailing around like a drunken uncle at a wedding. It's that it perfectly encapsulates that gaping chasm between expectation and reality - who you thought you went to bed with the night before and who you woke up with in the morning after.

Natal will sell like hotcakes. It's cheap, in-the-box and software developers will most likely create some fantastic games. Just no one mail Molyneaux the clip of Wossy playing. He would be a broken man. µ