Don't Write Kinect Off So Early

[Veldt Falsetto]

When the Wii came out it has Zelda, this has nothing, that's why.
Oh and...

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Cuz Yahtzee says you should hate motion controls so you should definitely hate motion controls.

Seriously though, I don't get the scorn either. The games generally don't look great but the tech looks stellar, meaning there's plenty of potential in the future.

 

[Mr. Gency]

I'm usually pretty good with game design, but i can't think of ANYTHING that could work well with Kinect other than minigames and on-rails.

The best you could get from it is just using it for small hand gestures while using a regular controller which seems a bit pants if you ask me.

What if, while your playing Splinter Cell: Conviction, then Kobin calls your daughter a whore, then you find Kobin, will you...

A. Press "B"

B. Grab him by the neck and say "Andrey Kobin. Whats that you were saying about my daughter?" Then smash his head in a piano.

In all honesty I'd choose A xD

I get what you're saying though, that would be pretty cool for some people. Though when applied to a real game it wouldn't be as good as you make it sound.

I have thought of quite a few uses for Kinect since i made that last post but i still think it's very limiting if you're not using it with some sort of controller. I'll just wait and see what devs come up with.

Well I'm actually against B. It's basically like begging Fox "News" to bash video games. I only said it to show that, if your creative enough, you can come up with something.

I know! What about a co-op game. One player uses a controller, the other uses Kinect...

That's all I got so far...

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I'd consider buying one. Not for the games and not at $150 bucks. But I would love to be able to bark orders at my Xbox.

"Xbox! Movies!"
"Xbox! TV shows!"
"Xbox! Don't you dare RRoD again!!!"

 

[oppp7]

But hating is so fun...

OT: Either way, I don't think they'll make it different enough from the Wii for me to really care. I mean, Xbox games are mostly for achievements, and I still have to get like 50 classics I never got around to trying(still need Mass Effect and Fallout 3...).

 

[MorsePacific]

The pricetag, the shovelware, and their poor choice of celebrity to endorse the product isn't what's turning me off. I don't want Kinect for the same reasons I didn't want a Wii and don't want Move.

Motion controls are absolutely pointless.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Everyone has the same argument about how:
'I'm not paying $150 for a controller.'
'The Kinect doesn't have quality launch titles.'

But the titles so far are crap, it IS just a controller, and IF I wanted a motion-controlled console, I'd buy a Wii for less money.

Oh, and don't know WTF this Bieber bloke is, but the fact that Molyneux is fapping all over Kinect put me off yonks ago.

 

[Flying Dagger]

If I felt the need for it, I'd just use my Eyetoy for ps2.

Yet that only cost about £30 iirc... Can't see how you can justify the high price tag it's getting.

Or if I wanted a Wii, I'd buy a Wii... though I don't see that happening anytime soon.

 

[Naheal]

Because, obvious wii ripp off for money purpose only is obvious?

The game industry is built upon ripping each other off.

 

[molesgallus]

Because I don't want to jump about when playing games. I play games to relax after sports. I don't want to start doing terrible pseudo-sports when I 'm tired from doing interesting, real sports.

 

[HandOfFate]

I think that Kinect COULD out-class the wii simply because the 360 was more processing power and thus allows developers to make better games for it . SO don't write it off for Shovelware

 

[Xskills]

Steve Jobs once quoted Pablo Picasso as a matter of explaining how to find new technologies, "good artists copy, great artists steal."
Kinect is just a result of constraints from the (consumer) environment. Because Nintendo changed the competition from "get revenue from hardcore" to "get revenue from everybody via intuitive input systems", this required MS and Sony to evolve. I don't Microsoft is cruel enough to give consumers just $80 or $90 of hardware for $150, if Kinect is $150 (which I doubt), then MS will likely bundle in free software.

 

[Jamie Doerschuck]

My problem with it is that for 40 more dollars I could get myself a Wii. And who would want one? The only redeeming games on the Wii are the House of the Dead games and Wii Sports. One came free with the console. Have you ever looked at the back of a gaming magazine? The only games that scored an 8+ are Mario games. Everything else is usually below a 6, with maybe five or six stuck in the 7 range. The Wii has a much lower average score than either of the other consoles. And quite honestly, I don't play video games to move. I play video games to use a controller. If I want to dance I can go to a party. If I want to play tennis I can go to the fitness club. And yeah, the Wii has the highest sales out of the three consoles, but it also has the highest amount of people who bought a console and don't use it. Nintendo has even admitted that. There are lots of studies and statistics that have been done about it. I don't see why Microsoft or Sony thing that their things will be any different. And the fact of the matter is that they probably don't. They probably just want to try to reach the sales figures of the Wii and care nothing about if people play the damn things or not.

 

[lacktheknack]

I don't know who justin bieber is, but at least molyneux isn't advertising it, then you'd KNOW it was trash without a doubt.

Erm, Molyneux was the first advertiser.

And Justin Bieber... you know him, even if you think you don't. He's taken over the entire world while you weren't looking.

 

[zen5887]

I think it'll end up the same as the Eyetoy.. It'll be fun for a few weeks but then It'll end up collecting dust once the novelty wears off. As long as it doesn't get in the way of other, more serious releases, then I don't really care.

I'm sure it'll be fun with a bunch of friends..

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

What's that? Don't write it off? Too late, I wrote off fucking Project Natal. I mean, I can see that we want to be optimistic about it and all, but... Shovelware is just inevitable and pretty much the only thing you can feasibly DO with it... Milo is creepy as hell... The price IS steep and I don't think it will realistically be lowered below $100 before it comes out... and Justin Bieber is advertising for it? Really? Didn't know that. This calls for drastic measures!

 

[Nomanslander]

All power to it if it does well with casual gamers, but since I'm not its demographic...=/

 

[Aesir23]

My reason is because I generally like to relax and have fun when I play games. Sure, the Kinect MIGHT be fun. But I'm not fond of flailing around in order to play a game.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Because the Sony version of this, the eyetoy, died a horrible flaming death some years years ago and I have no reason to believe that the climate of gaming has changed to the extent that there will be a significance difference in the expected life of this version other then Microsoft will pump more money into advertising it. Of course, as we all know, advertising only gets you so far.

 

[Evilbunny]

Because I don't believe that it will work as well as they say it will. Why? Because I see the motion control technology Nintendo has and it's not exactly perfect, and Microsoft isn't known for its quality programming.