Microsoft Denies Core Gamers Hated Kinect

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Why would they admit it?

Microsfot have shown, time and time again, that they will lie to the public, even after it's proved to be a lie. Look at most of the Vista advertising campaign.

Sorry, Kinect is a very useful thing...but no-one's using it for making games better.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Kinect has loads of many wonderful applications!

None of which provide a good gaming experience.

So, yes, I hate the thing. Kinect simply doesn't work for games more complicated than the type of thing I saw on the EyeToy several years ago.

Don't put words in my mouth Microsoft.

 

[Kanaan Brood]

I wont buy one simply because I dont want to flap around to play a game. Far too much like excersise for me. I'll stick to controllers, thanks. By the way, microsoft, I am a core gamer.

 

[mjc0961]

Well, I guess he's right. I don't actually have anything against Kinect. I just hate how they waste E3 yakking about it and how it has absolutely nothing I want to play. And then their big draw to core gamers is "You can talk to Mass Effect 3" Oh boy, $150 for that! Hey, guess what? Pass. Sticking with the controller is faster and more reliable than talking to my game.

 

[Buizel91]

You see, Kinect might not be great now, but think what will happen when developers know what to do with it. There is so much potential and people are acting as if the Machine is cursed.

Gamers said exactly the same for the Wii, while sure it isn't the best system it eventually showed it was anything BUT a gimmick. Something that the WiiU will Probably do as well, but better.

I'm in no rush to get one, and hey i may never get one, but looking at the games that are coming out for it, Kinect may prove all of us wrong.

 

[DesertMummy]

I like the whole pushing to core games that Kinect is doing. I do like Kinect, its fun for a while, and I use it every time I watch Netflix. I look forward to using it with Ryse and that other horror game, whatever its called. Also, I like the idea of it being optional, like for instance, GRAW, or ME3. Voice commands worked well in Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 & 2, though it did always make me feel like a moron.

 

[Denamic]

Buttons.
Reliable, simple, fast, precise.
Open inventory? Button.
Shoot guy? Button. Or trigger, both are nice.
Smash face? Button! Fuck yeah!
Jumping? Motherfucking button!
All while sitting, or even lying down, and being lazy and pwning like a badass.

Why would I trade that for something slower, less reliable, that has no physical feedback, and that I have to stand up and... fucking MOVE to even use at all?
That the opposite to what a core gamer would want.

 

[newdarkcloud]

I don't think many people are hostile to the Kinect...

...more like apathetic.

 

[The Lugz]

i'm sure the fan-base would like it if it did not require an indoor basketball court to use with more than one person

and if motion controls were actually worth using, at all.

@newdarkcloud
yep, i think you hit the nail on the head.. nothing offensive about the kinect except it's not really that great
so i guess M$ have a point, gamers do not hate kinect they just don't care it exists

 

[ThatFanBoyGuy]

If what Kudo Tsunoda said is true, then all the people I heard during E3 say that Kinect was ruining XBox was just PS fanboys trying to get the upper hand...just something to think about

Personally, I own an XBox360, I own a Kinect, and I love it. I already own 5 games for it, and after watching E3, I believe my Kinect games library will double in a year because there are some really great game titles. Kinect, as well as other motion control, is the wave of the future, and that's where I see gaming going.

If there's one thing Back to the Future Part 2 predicted right about 2015...
"You mean you have to use your hands? that's like a baby's toy"

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I don't hate the kinect. I just don't use it. But if that Star Wars game plays good I would definately be tempted to get it.

 

[Rayne870]

I have kinect, I have kinectimals and I like kinectimals. While I enjoy that, I do not want to play gears of war, halo, mass effect and so on with kinect, i want to sit down and press buttons without yelling at my console...well yelling orders to my console.

 

[spartan231490]

Microsoft lies. Oh wait, everybody lies. guess this makes sense then.

 

[walrusaurus]

I can't say I've ever seen many people claim to 'hate' Kinect. Whats to hate about it. Its just the latest of decades of gimmicky peripherals that don't gain any penetration into the core games, rather existing in its own little subset of niche titles. Ignoring Kinect doesn't exclude you from anything you would have otherwise cared about. Sure its a significantly more interesting bit of tech than -say- the power glove, but thats about it.

Core Gamers don't hate Kincet, we just don't give a shit about it.

 

[Dogstile]

Kudo Tsunoda says that Microsoft never felt the need to defend Kinect from core gamers. In fact, the opposite is true, he says, and core gamers were actually excited about the motion controller and the possibilities that it offered.

Exactly, we were. Then you went and took a dump on the more hardcore crowd by catering to the casuals. Sure we don't blame MS for doing so, more money after all, but PAH.

Need a metaphor for something you were looking forward to, then you realised it wasn't aimed at you anymore.

Oh, yeah, DNF

 

[ZombieGenesis]

That's right games industry, Lie. What problem is there which can't be solved by outright denial? Even directly towards the people who's attitudes you're fictionalising in the first place.

 

[Royas]

As a "core" gamer (as much time as I spend playing, I think I meet any definition) I can say I don't hate Kinect. I can say that after trying it, I have no use for it. I consider it impractical and annoying. Not enough to hate it, but I'm definitely indifferent to its success.

 

[SilverKyo]

I started off with a neutral and uncaring feeling towards kinect, but as I've watched the last two Microsoft press conferences become the disgrace of E3 that just panders around the Kinect and almost nothing else, I have grown to hate it. I hate it because it keeps taking away from core gaming and tries to focus everyone's attention on Kinect instead of what I'm really watching for, which is real games.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I don't hate it and I actually think the tech is very interesting and I'm curious to see how that piece of tech will evolve in the next few years.

That being said, it doesn't appeal to me as a gamer in the sense of playing a game, and it has yet to make me think that I need absolutely need it in my living room. None of the stuff that they showed made me has yet to make me think oftherwise where it would immerse me further into the game. If anything, it would make me constantly aware that I'm playing a game and that there are certain things that I have to do, like voice commands and arm flailing, that would break the flow for me.

That's my two cents anyways.

 

[soulasylum85]

i played the kinect one time. it was fun to have a few drinks and play the kinect adventure game with my friends for a few hours. however thats all it was, i had no desire to purchase one or really to even play a second time. while i will admit that it is more entertaining than the move or the wii and the tech is interesting, i dont want motion control getting in the way of my games. i am more than happy sitting in my chair with my controller in my hand playing a good shooter or rpg, i dont need to jump around like an idiot and play mini games (except maybe in a drunken party setting)