Sony Explains Why Controller-Free Gaming Won't Work
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I believe you may be referring to this revolutionary and modern experience:fanklok said:
Here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film]
Except the Eyetoy was hilariously easy to break. At some point, I held up a moose puppet, and did exactly as well as my friends who were using themselves.
Please stop bashing kinect. Not just Sony, but all those people who haven't played it yet. Am I the only person who remembers CoD4:MW being slandered when it was announced as a step away from the series' roots in WW2? All the complaints suddenly disappeared when "Good" became an undestatement. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
And Kinect early on was announced to have 3D recognition, and will be 1-1. So you have to flail like a mad man in sword fighing games, is that any different to spastic jerks that I use when playing anything on the wii?
Please stop bashing kinect. Not just Sony, but all those people who haven't played it yet. Am I the only person who remembers CoD4:MW being slandered when it was announced as a step away from the series' roots in WW2? All the complaints suddenly disappeared when "Good" became an undestatement. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
And Kinect early on was announced to have 3D recognition, and will be 1-1. So you have to flail like a mad man in sword fighing games, is that any different to spastic jerks that I use when playing anything on the wii?
Your GameStop manager buddy is wrong. Kinect can see things moving forward and back - it's core to several of the Kinect Adventures games and required to set up Kinect ID.AzrealMaximillion said:
Hehehe.
No, Sony, nobody's going to make the connection to this and the Microsoft Kinect.
Nobody.
No, Sony, nobody's going to make the connection to this and the Microsoft Kinect.
Nobody.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/04/kinect-review/
Broken failware is broken. It's only official now.
Broken failware is broken. It's only official now.
Like Rune342 said:
I wonder if this means they'll copy the Kinect system in a few years, if it turns out to be popular? Then again, they've already tried it with the EyeToy.
Yeah, remember how the Wii-mote looked like a lollipop, according to them? Well, Move certainly doesn't!Rune342 said:
I wonder if this means they'll copy the Kinect system in a few years, if it turns out to be popular? Then again, they've already tried it with the EyeToy.
All of those complaints could potentially be fixed with software updates and an expanding library of games (as the article itself said). Sure it's no excuse for Kinect being so specific in setup requirements, having limited or awkward menu navigation, or lacking in worthwhile games but the device is clearly not "broken failware".Shale_Dirk said:
Its got some problems. If it got refined, i'd be happy with itJkudo said:I'm really ignorant on the subject so correct me if i'm wrong but isn't the reason people dislike console rts is because the keyboard and mouse do it better with all the buttons. Once again i know almost nothing on rts, never played one on a pc. I can see how you could select things with kinect, actually if you combine it with voice control it might work on some level, but if it wouldn't be measuring depth(maybe to zoom in i guess?), and without it tracking fingers i can't see it being much different than using an eyetoy. It just seems pretty messy.dogstile said:Awesome Sony, because they're selling a hell of a lot more kinects than your silly eyetoy you're going to get jealous
On a serious note, I really want them to let us use kinect for RTS games. That would make consoles a really viable target for those.
Sure, software updates could fix the selection options, and iron out some of the kinks with video recognition, but it will do nothing to save the lag and drop-out problems that the system has. I'm not saying that the system is a failure because of a lack of expansive selections, I'm saying as such because it does not do its intended purpose, which is 1 to 1 motion capture.Eldritch Warlord said:
I swear the Eyetoy creator )Richard Marks) was talking about his experience back on the ps2 with the eyetoy? This isn't some random guy you know, he actually demoed the core Kinect technology on the ps2 in 05' (made by some company in Israel I believe)before MS bought the tech and fixed it up a bit.Nouw said:
Yeah, Sony turned down this tech b/c they know the limitations with it.
Main Highlights
00:23-00:28 ("This isn't our tech btw, its made by an Israely company...")
08:10-08:25 ("This is a demo of a guy batting a ball around...this is very early work...this is running on the PS2 btw...")
I, at least, have the decency not to call people out on it, unless they publicly display it.The Bandit said:
So they just *happened* to point out the flaws in a system they designed years ago a day before Kinect is released?
Hmm...
Sony! You're not exactly in a position to attack Microsoft for making a crappy gimmick! The Move might work, but it will be pointless. You can't change all of your main franchises over to Move-only controls, since that would cut sales from people who haven't bought one. That means that the only Move games will be shovelware and the occasional well-designed third party game which will undersell because everyone will already have traded in their Move by then.
Nintendo has the advantage, because everyone who has bought a Wii has all of the motion controls already. They don't have to choose between making the game good or trying to force the controls into the games and alienating customers who don't want to buy it.
Hmm...
Sony! You're not exactly in a position to attack Microsoft for making a crappy gimmick! The Move might work, but it will be pointless. You can't change all of your main franchises over to Move-only controls, since that would cut sales from people who haven't bought one. That means that the only Move games will be shovelware and the occasional well-designed third party game which will undersell because everyone will already have traded in their Move by then.
Nintendo has the advantage, because everyone who has bought a Wii has all of the motion controls already. They don't have to choose between making the game good or trying to force the controls into the games and alienating customers who don't want to buy it.
