Regardless of its quality, all I know is that even if I had a 360, there's no way that I could use it properly.  The living room space in my condo is too small and I'm a tall guy.

Some cool ideas coming through, shrouded heavily by jank.

As an interface device I think it would be pretty cool if it worked 100% (which it apparently doesn't). As a way to control my games, I'm not interested in it at all. Like, not even a little bit. 

I think the tech is cool, and if they ever used that same stuff for like regular every day computer use it would be really cool. Currently no games interest me seeing as there all casual type kiddie games, but don't doubt the creativity of the game developers that somebody will find a fit for it in a normal game.

Bargain bin for me.

I didn't watch it because I thought it would end up being overly critical which comes naturally to the GB crew, but just from looking at the software I think I'm gonna wait until I see what comes next. I've read reviews and they all seem to say that when you play a game that uses it well, Kinect works. Dance Central, Your Shape and Kinectimals seem to be the three games that are most responsive to it. So I guess in that way it's depending on the games you play, and developers will probably need time to smooth things out. It was the exact same way with the Wii, too. Remember Red Steel, then we have awesome controls like Metroid Prime 3 later on. 
 
@Soapy86 said:

" As an interface device I think it would be pretty cool if it worked 100% (which it apparently doesn't). As a way to control my games, I'm not interested in it at all. Like, not even a little bit.  "

I'll be waiting a good bit. I need a new 360 so I might end up getting Kinect bundled with a black 360 for Christmas but I'm really not sure. The titles are like all console launches with a bunch of garbage and a few gems.

I liked Dance Central, DanceMasters due to my weakness for silly J-pop/dace and a nostalgic love of DDR, and You Shape looks like a good exercise program. I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to buy a Kinect, though. : / 

There's no great software to support it as of now... and while there might be a handful of great games in the future, you are stupid to think that "this is the future of gaming". 
 
Controllers are perfect the way they are. There's no way you can make the next God Of War(not the best example to everybody, but it's the first that popped in my head) using fucking stupid motion controllers.

The tech is impressive in spots, but I have yet to see a Kinect-required game that interests me. Also, tiny college dorm room.

Looks alright, but not for $150.

 First thing  I can say is don't fully judge it until you played it, I bought a 250gb console bundle with kinect and Dance Central mostly because I wanted a new console and a larger hard drive and I wanted to try out KInect and this bundle is only $100 more than without kinect. I have played it a little bit myself and I did not have any problems with the voice control or picking  the memory unit like jeff, I think after standing and working for 4-5 hours he was getting pissed off and he wanted the system to do more than it could. The technology is amazing and Kinect Adventures will be a fun game for a week and Dance Central will be fun to try and get good at and play with friends at a Party, which is what Im going to do tomorrow. Take out Dance Central and Ur Shape this is probably the worst lineup for gamers, for new gamers its a little bit better, you have to remember Kinect is for and being marketed to Families and non traditional gamers. As of right now if you got money to burn and like cool technology, I would say buy kinect or if you have kids and wife that might try out some of it, then I would say buy it, if you like playing Modern Warfare/ Fallout or something around those lines then wait and see what other games come out and the price might go down too.

Great technology, but it's going to be a long time before we see it used properly. None of those games interest me in the slightest and it looks like there's a long way to go before games start using the UI to its advantage.
 
So basically it's in the same position as the Move, could be good, but with its current releases... pass.

Oh please. 
 
Alright, let me reintroduce you two: rider, meet horse.  Horse, meet rider.

I would like it for party games, and would only get it as a gift. I think it will do casual stuff well and be a good contender for the wii, but until i am proven other wise, i would not want to play anything but a party game on this. 

Fascinating hardware weighed down by mediocre software. 
 
It also doesn't help that the Kinect wasn't the same hardware we originally saw at 2008's E3.

I just thought of something. If Kinect does sell well and pays off from the advertising (Microsoft is so sure it's going to sell that they've increased sales outlook.... by 2 million), then we'll probably see a price cut sometime before the summer. 
 
@bigsmoke77: Jeff and the crew are overly critical on a lot of things for no reason, Jeff more so than the others, so him complaining about the voice control like that isn't surprising and should be taken with a grain of salt. It's actually kinda childish sometimes :P

it is very ambitious but it seems rushed.  another year of development maybe?

Like everyone said, the tech is cool but I can't see any games really worth it for it.  The move is basically a wii hd but at least it's proven to work and actual games will support it.

The Living Statues stuff was hauntingly awesome.

Great concept,had alot of great things going for it like Dance central and when the voice stuff worked the first time but there needs to be a few tweaks to it and more games that really show off how diverse and great it can be especially with the price and room your gona need to get it to work. 

The Kinect is only as good as its software, and among them are the first fitness game they played and Dance Central - niche titles that don't interest me in concept alone.  I do, however, enjoy me some table tennis but Wii Sports Resort is good enough for me video game realm-wise.

Dance Central and Your Shape looked interesting. I won't be buying it though. First of all, it's too expensive in my country (about 220 bucks), and there was way too much jank in most of the games. Great job by the guys though. I missed the first 30 minutes, but saw everything after that. I love this site.

It seems like a pretty cool idea, but it's not for me. 
 
I like to play my games sitting down, on a couch, in the dark whenever possible.

 Right now it seems like it was launched a bit prematurely. Like, it needs a few patches or something. Im open for it being great, but im not seeing it right now. I need to buy a new 360 before anything though, since mine is starting to glitch up. So it might be a ways off before I could even think about getting it.

i will buy it, but sometime in december.
but i wonder, will it work in xbox'es that are not conected to live? cause those ware a lot of updates. (excuse the bad spelling)

It made me think about removing my coffee table. That's about how far I've gone.

If my xbox ever dies i'll pick up the bundle. 
i think i'll be more interested in it when they come out with a "wand" peripheral that works in conjunction with it.

Really cool tech that works well but lack of software(besides Dance Central) has me not really interested in obtaining one

I thought the Your Shape and Dance Central segments were amazing and showed what Kinect is truly capable of, everything else was mediocre. It seems like Move, from my own experience, is more consistently good with casual and hardcore games and from watching Kinect it has more misses than hits but when it does hit man is it fucking impressive. 

i find it funny that Microsoft is going for this whole you dont need a controller thing but the menu navigation was soooo slow, and it seemed the pose the guys kept doing to get the pause menu to pop up was never read correctly by the camera and would take forever to register. the only games that really showed off the tech was Dance Central,  Kinect Adventures and maybe Kinect Sports. sorry Microsoft but im not sold yet.

That they should do more live quick looks. was cool.

About what I expected... I certainly won't waste any money on it though, even if I did have the space to use it properly.

Remembering the "How tall are you?" thread where it seems half of the members of this site are like 6'6 or something crazy, I don't see how any of you could use Kinect.  I'm 6'1 but I don't have a lot of space.

"That they should do more live quick looks. was cool. "

The voice controls and face recognition were great when they worked, the track and field game looked fun but in a try-it-once-demo-sorta-thing way.... 
 
None of the games interest me, but I am ready to see what the next batch brings to kinect. Also controlling most of the menus with kinect was painfully dreadful to watch, can't imagine actually doing it. 
 
The technology has promise, I can say that much.

Same as before. Excels at dance and fitness games and not much else. I don't see them implementing the Kinect in any meaningful way for hardcore games, but of course they never intended to. Seeing as how I suck at rhythm games and have no interest in losing weight or getting in shape, Kinect is not for me. And buttons are faster than broad hand movements. If I can summon a glass of water from waving my hands, then that'd be fucking amazing, navigating a menu on my TV? Not so much. I much prefer buttons and I never lose my remotes or controllers. Voice commands seem like the only neat thing on it.
 
All in all, eh. I'll wait for the technology to evolve to the point where it is more or just as convenient as using a controller. Kinect just feels like a prototype for something bigger or more advanced. I'll wait for that.

not really worth my investment unless i wanted to use it as an exercise device.