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Post by trog @ 02:40pm 18/06/10 | 18 Comments
 The video certainly highlights the casual audience that Kinect is targeted at - the list of people present in each scene looks something like this: - young girl (with mother-figure and another young girl watching) - two guys watching sports with a girlfriend-figure - two teen girls (with family watching) - entire family watching movie - three teen girls dancing - teen girl and mother figure (with male family-figure members watching) - father figure playing table tennis (family watching) - adult female soloing an exercise game - young boy and girl playing (parent-figures watching) - mother figure playing (family watching) Microsoft are dead keen to make sure everyone knows this is fun family fun and girls can most definitely take part, but that for the guys you can at least sit down and watch sport. Check out the video - do you think there's any opportunity for hardcore appeal? 
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Posted 04:13pm 18/6/10
Microsoft have stated that Kinect won't replace controls for FPS games but headtracking or voice commands may be used aswell as xbox controller.
The main focus of Kinect is to steal the casual gamers from the Wii not to gimp the system with shitty controls.
Posted 05:00pm 18/6/10
Posted 06:39pm 18/6/10
keyboard & mouse are for HARDCORE gamers :)
though im playing 360 right now so i won't judge.
Posted 06:59pm 18/6/10
ps - that shit looks incredibly gay
Posted 06:52pm 18/6/10
also, ill smash any fuck that trys to play me at mario kart and doesnt use the numchuk
Posted 07:14pm 18/6/10
Hardcore appeal? Well I cant see it working for shooters unless it can accurately track your finger for trigger pulls, driving games... the demo at E3 had the user standing... how do you accelerate and brake?
Depending on the speed and accuracy of it's tracking it could be good for RTS & mix in some voice command too. Ninja game would be cool, but I would feel like a dick running on the spot to get anywhere and would end up KTFO trying to do sweet ninja flips.
If they add something like a Wii mote with a stick and trigger on it then using that along with body language (aiming guns/swinging sword/free look etc.) could work rather well.
Oh oh I wonder if it can track two thing independently of each other, I'm assuming it can for multi-user stuff like that dance game, but my line of thought is if it can accurately track my arms and head independently of each other so I could be aiming my gun in one direction but scanning the flanks while moving. Basically what I do in Arma via keyboard and mouse but tracking would be heaps cooler.
Posted 07:19pm 18/6/10
it'll go mainstream and have success
Posted 10:23pm 18/6/10
This microsoft promo seems to me to show people paid to smile big while they play games. It isn't as captivating as the wii adverts, and i imagine the product is much the same. Just using your hand to play table tennis is going to seem funny, whereas holding a controller to bowl or smack balls back seems a better.
I queued and bought a wii on launch. There's nothing here (so far) for me.
Posted 10:59pm 18/6/10
Posted 11:36pm 18/6/10
still can you imagine the coffee cup mod for GTA san andreas with kinetic lol
Posted 10:42am 19/6/10
I say us hardcore gamers have a mass suicide rally. It worked for those Tibetan monks, right?
Posted 05:35pm 19/6/10
Posted 11:41pm 19/6/10
Posted 01:19am 20/6/10
Maybe we could burn the casuals instead? My house gets cold in winter.
Posted 01:20am 20/6/10
PS - comments need an edit feature :(
Posted 11:13am 20/6/10
Posted 11:30am 20/6/10
I swear in another video that came out yonks ago they used an Asian for the exercise part too.
Although it does look incredibly gay it might get some cool stuff further down the track. Playing something like a fighting game might be fun.
Posted 06:55pm 20/6/10