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The watch makes sense when you consider the phones are getting huge. All the constant checking for incoming messages, the time, schedules, etc, will be awkward on a giant phone, so all that will be pushed over to the watch.

Now, why are they making the phones huge in the first place? Uhm, to sell watches?

Luck in games is fine, but when you have to tediously repeat something you've already done just because of bad luck, that's when it's a bad design.

It's interesting that this is the straw that breaks the camel's back. I thought the large amount of latency added to streams was really much more damaging than any of this, as it made the kind of almost-realtime interaction that was there before impossible. It was a much more fundamental blow to the service.

"It is impossible for any of the Characters to get hurt or die. Anything bad that happens will be in the form of setbacks"

It's interesting they had this idea, but didn't fully apply it to Maniac Mansion, you can die, although it is rare. When Monkey Island later came out and actually implemented a no-death adventure it was considered sort of revolutionary.

I think that's over thinking it, much more basically, the Kinect is too laggy and inaccurate. It really does not work at the most basic things it should do, it doesn't live up to its most basic technological promises, and everybody involved tries to pretend like it's not totally busted.

It was an "emperor has no clothes" kinda scenario where all the people making games for it, and microsoft, were marketing an experience that simply was impossible with all that lag and glitchiness. But gamers saw through it right away, moments after trying it.

Nintendo must be considering making an android gaming phone based on a chip like the Nvidia Tegra K1.

Yup, I just figured that out, you have to go to "Extras" in the store and get that file also called "Kinect Party".  Works great. 

Anybody else seeing this? 
 
Edit: You have to also go to Extras inside the XBLA store and also download the "Kinect Party" item there.  That's the unlock.

My favorite game isn't included!  This is an outrage!

The reason it's a big deal is because our leaders didn't get there through ideas or accomplishments, they got there by being pretty happy perfect people, that look and sound good.  When it's exposed they aren't really spawns of Leave It Beaver, it destroys the foundation of their power.