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Why Gamers Want To Hate Kinect

June 15, 2010 in Blog comments 5

OXCGN looks at the complaints about Microsoft's Kinect by the media and asks if they are missing the point. Alex Baldwin argues that the media event didn't have gamers in mind, and the real target was non-gamers.

Already, before anyone has even been given the chance to play the Kinect game, opinions are flowing thick and fast through the internet’s veins.

What isn’t so great are the judgements that seem to have already been cast both for and against Kinect’s success in providing new play experiences. Having gone hands-on with what was then known as Natal at E3 2009, and attended both the Kinect event and the keynote earlier today, the three of us are quite optimistic.

But you know what? That doesn’t matter in the slightest. What we and most of you reading this think is the absolute least of Microsoft’s worries. And here’s why.
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    screamingabdabs Jun 15, 10
    It does look a bit gimmicky and a rip-off of the Wii but with new features, but some of the games look fun, however I can see it being to family-oriented.
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    blackrosedelt Jun 15, 10
    If gamers wanted to be active we would play sports.
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    Red 9 Jun 15, 10
    I watched their video trailer for the Kinect...I could easily learn to hate it. Especially considering how they're passing it off as brand new technology when EyeToy's been doing it for years.

    Plus, holding an invisible steering wheel is a whole lot stupider than just getting the actual steering wheel peripheral.
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      Slumpy monkey Jun 16, 10
      Meh, The kinect thingy uses a stereoscopic 3D camera for true 3D tracking of your body, it can detect depth and can register when you move your arms towards the screen and when you move away from the screen.

      The eye toy was just a webcam.
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    Daweii Jun 16, 10
    Kinect was great without the games. When they were commanding their console with voice and using their hands to select a move around the dashboard I was impressed. So for that I would probably buy Kinect just for that purpose.

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