" I'm actually really impressed with the technology. Kinect is the closest to capturing 1:1 movement I've seen, and the stuff they were doing seemed too elaborate to be pre-choreographed. None of the games shown would have any lasting value for me, though. "
I agree. The tech is good, it's just a matter of developers not using it in any interesting ways yet. I definitely think we won't see what the tech is really going to be until perhaps a year or two into it. I could end up as a remote control substitute, a Wiimote derivative or a meaningful way to add small motion control touches to hardcore games. We'll just have to wait and see.
I'm disinterested in Nat... Kinect. They need to show games that are actually worth playing. Given what was shown I would pay no more than 49.95. The tech is interesting but seems a little unresponsive and glitchy in live demos, especially for skeletal mapping stuff. It's basically just a mouse when it comes to dashboard use and I can see it becoming very annoying to use when more than one person is in the room. Basically, they need to do a lot more to get me interested in forking over my cash.
Not giving any mention of the price of a piece of tech coming out in 5 months means it's not going to be a pretty figure. Some of the demos looked fun, but nothing truly compelling. I'm not about to drop a triple digit price on a Kinect plus retail game price for any of the titles they've announced. It's going to take a lot more to get me on board.
Unless someone makes a game so spectacularly bad-ass that I can't deny playing, I'm going to pass on the Kinect for now. Still, it gets some kudos from me for looking a little like the sort of tech you'd see in a lame Sci-Fi movie
Meh. There really wasn't anything shown to sell me on it. It was a pretty weak show all around, regardless of not knowing much about Kinect(lame name by the way). It was pretty standard fair in the way of motion control pushes.
Everything shown for Kinect looks like garbage and even with the downgrade in its power they were unable to price under $100 so I'm vastly unimpressed!
They show Gears of War 3, Halo: Reach, MGS: Rising, and people still can't wait to express how dissapointed they are. The show wasn't the second coming, but really what are people expecting out of E3 conferences?
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