Anyone else realize that the Kinect is just a really advanced Eyetoy?

[Dogstile]

I'm not hating on Microsoft, I game on both Sony and 360 (I play Sony more because of the free online, i know the hack sucked but we gotta get through these thugs and Sony will be back with a vengeance and apologies) but it's just... Okay, the Eyetoy came into play around, what, 2005? I hink were still on Xbox at the time and the PS2 was just the shit. Than we get Eyetoy and they change the game by turning the player into a controller. Okay, yeah, there weren't many games and you could win just by holding you hand up to the camera lens, but it was still impressive. I'm not saying the Kinect is plagiarism(the Eyetoy has been reincarnated for PS3 I believe), I'm just saying that Eyetoy may have inspired Kinect. Eyetoy took your picture and recorded your movements in game, Kinect takes a scan of your body and the points of movement and interprets your moves on screen. Kinect is still an amazingly impressive device, life saving maybe or good for physical therapy, but it just seems like Eyetoy evolved, I dunno.

So do you have any recent gaming revelations you'd like to share and discuss.

There's a main difference. The eyetoy registered movements while the Kinect can register gestures. That's a massive difference.

Yeah, but that's like a new model's improvement over the prototype.

Well, if we want to use that logic.

"A car is just a horse with wheels and an interior"

"A house is just a hut with heating"

"A dog has four legs, so its like my table but can move".

 

[Hectix777]

i have sony ripoffed nintendo and microsoft ripoffed sony and now nintendo is making a god of war clone the circle is complete

Two things:

One: The God of War clone your thinking of is most likely Asura's Wrath and that's being produced by Capcom. So it's more Shinto hack-and-slash meaning combat can be more crazy and less logical.

Two: your icon scares the $&@# out of me, I'm sleeping lying down everynight from now on to protect my phallus and tie a pillow to my buns of steel to stop any attempts at my ass. Congratulations for instilling the fear that I can be raped, and by a woman.

i was thinking of pandoras tower i didnt even know asura's wrath was going to be on wii

Don't even know what pandoras tower is, but Asura's Wrath is promising. People may compare it to God of War, but in a good way. We all love getting super powerful gods and having them fight each other. It's possible Asura's Wrath may be more insane than God of War considering you fight an enemy that's BIGGER THAN THE F(*&^% PLANET! I can't wait for it.

Also: for my sleep's sake, CHANGE YOUR PROFILE.

 

[Sharalon]

I called that a long time ago...

 

[Booze Zombie]

It's not a revelation for myself. It's like if the Eyetoy was more functional, really... like if it worked.

 

[lacktheknack]

There's nothing wrong with that. You're typing on a really advanced punchcard calculator, after all.

 

[Shilkanni]

Yes it's obviously just an advanced EyeToy, but I think the point was they thought it was now advanced to the point it was worth doing again.

EyeToy is like when games first trying to do 3d before they were ready:

I was interested in Kinect at first but lost interest when I found it required a decent amount of space and is sensitive to lightning (same issue with the EyeToy).

 

[pandorum]

To be honest motion technology in games is dead nintendo even said so they did it once with the power glove and failed the rehashed and rebooted the technology in the wii and won now there new console is not about motion technology but games and raw processing power the MOVE and KINECT are a rush effort from both ends of the technology to try and capture the casual gamer and gamer family who want to continue as it is a huge market untapped by the gaming industry microsoft need a foot in a gaming demographic other than fanboy as nintendo has pretty much have all the demographic's and sony has girl gamers, fanboys and gamers older than twenty who remember the ps1 do not say xbox appeals more to girl gamers just because you can pay to play with girl gamers Playstation has lbp1 and lbp2 all the cod games and now portal on steam microsoft should stop trying to beat the japanese at there own game stick to what there good at and make the pc in the world with something less glitchy and hackable than windows

 

[pandorum]

had to get that off my chest lol

 

[hazabaza1]

Well done, you realised something that everyone else did when it was announced.