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    Kinect is a camera and depth sensor-based peripheral for the Xbox 360 that allows users to interact with and play games using their whole bodies, rather than using a standard controller.

    Kinect, Name, love it or hate it?

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    #1  Edited By PufferFiz
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    #2  Edited By tebbit

    Hate it! Technically, I should have chosen C, because I don't have a 360, but DAMN that's crappy name.

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    #3  Edited By EdIsCool

    I just liked Natal, its just a nice sounding word. And Project Natal sounded awesome.
    Still its a shit product which hopefully will crash and burn.

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    #4  Edited By ProfessorEss

    Would be nice if there was an option that was "I don't care" without all the "I was never gonna buy it anyways".
     
    I haven't decided what I think about the actual product yet but, like most electronics, I couldn't care less what they name it.

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    #5  Edited By dies0rn

    At first i thought it sounds stupid but after some time I must say...
    I like it - and I don't know why :D

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    #6  Edited By MiamiRedHawks

    The name is alright, I guess. None of the games that the GB crew outlined interest me at all. I do think it would be cool to swipe through menus to make selections on the dashboard though.

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    #7  Edited By dbz1995

    Wave was the best sounding.

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    #8  Edited By ChickenPants

    I'm baffled as to how some people actually like it....

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    #9  Edited By RobotHamster

    C.

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    #10  Edited By ToadRunner

    The name is ok, but the thing itself is retarded.
     
    Microsoft is desperately trying to steal from nintendo.
     
    Kinect sports using your avatars. Totally original guys!

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    #11  Edited By carlthenimrod

    The name is alright. I hated it at first but it's starting to grow on me. At least it isn't super generic like Wave.

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    #12  Edited By Whisperkill

    I think they are trying to make it sound like their dumbass phone. 

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    #13  Edited By Insectecutor

    Dumb name. I get it, but it isn't clever. It has too many sharp consonants so it doesn't roll off the tongue, and people who don't get that it's the Greek prefix kine (meaning movement) portmanteau-ed with connect will just think it's a dumb ass way to spell connect.
     
    However, what's in a name? It's all about the games. It's going to take some serious awesome to win me over though, I'm burned out on motion controls now.

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    #14  Edited By MikkaQ

    Eh it's alright, the name gets across what it needs to, I guess, and that's enough for me. 

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    #15  Edited By chstupid

    I didn't think you could make a name stupider then Natal and then they did it.
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    #16  Edited By AndrewB

    It's fine. Better than I was expecting, worse than I was hoping.

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    #17  Edited By Taka

    Hate it.
     
    Also: there is no way anyone will call this thing Kinect, with a relatively established name like "Natal" flying around in the internet.

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    couldN'T care less. Damn why does everyone do this? I think it's cause the world is trying to kill me... 
     
    Anyways, since you made that mistake I cant pick that option. So I vote love it. 

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    I think it's alright. Not interested in the product though. 
       
    Phonetically they're both pretty good, but visually I think a Natal logo would have looked better than a Kinect logo.

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    #20  Edited By MooseyMcMan

    Hate it.

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    D. I don't care what it is called but I will be getting it. Kinect is fine with me!

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    #22  Edited By danimal_furry

    I picked C, but basically I am with the GB guys on this one. It isn't the best name ever... but it gets the job done. Natal wasn't a bad name because it was random. I'm sure they did enough market research to have a good idea what type of name to choose.

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    #23  Edited By Tomzombie

    kinetic energy  sounds better

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    #24  Edited By Ragdrazi

    Connect with your games with Kinect for X-Box 360 by Microsoft! 
     
    I wonder how much you have to pay people to be so plastic.

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    #25  Edited By Jazz

    I can see why they called it Kinect, but its stupid. 
    So's Move...so its all the same really isn't it?

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    #26  Edited By Demyx

    I just like the name Natal much better personally. I understand the "meaning" behind Kinect, but Natal just sounds infinitely more interesting.
    But I'm not buying it anyway. I can't think of a time where I ever bought a peripheral, especially at the price I've been hearing about.

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    #27  Edited By Ragdrazi

    Interface with your computer with Innerface by Microsoft. 
     
    Masticate some bacon with Mastercate by Microsoft. 
     
    Blah blah blah with Blardyblah by Microsoft.

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    #28  Edited By yoshimitz707

    I think it's a great name

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    #29  Edited By Daveyo520

    I think wave was a better name.

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    #30  Edited By bacongames
    @AndrewB said:
    " It's fine. Better than I was expecting, worse than I was hoping. "
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    #31  Edited By ArcBorealis

    Kinetic would've been a much better name I think, but even then, wasn't going to get one anyway.

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    #32  Edited By Tyrant1x

    When I first heard it this morning I hated it, now im fine with it somehow, its just been Natal for so long I feel weird calling it something else, I also keep typing Kinetic instead.

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    #33  Edited By rjayb89

    Should've made it so that it could hang from the ceiling, track your movements from all degrees, be shaped like a halo and be called Halo.

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