Kinect has taken Microsoft’s motion-controller from a distant second place in the buzz world to number one after being displayed yesterday at Microsoft’s E3 presentation to the public. Many people had written off the Kinect (at the time Project Natal) as nothing more than an updated version of the old interactive webcams from the 90’s or more recently the Playstation EyeToy.
After seeing the device in action with several different titles, it looks like Microsoft has done a lot more than just provided an updated take on old tech. The Xbox 360 Kinect might just revolutionize video games and how we view their integration into our entire home theatre. For example the voice-recognition on display during an announcement that ESPN would be exclusively added to the Xbox 360 showed how Kinect could open the door for more brands and channels to appear on the 360 and basically just made any form of remote antiquated technology. You control what you’re watching with your voice.
Sony’s Move will succeed thanks to a great marketing team, but after the display Microsoft put on, a lot of minds just changed. Sony has gone from the next big thing in motion controls to merely High-Def Wii. Meanwhile Microsoft has shown they can do a lot more than mimic and improve; they can create and lead.
Stay tuned for our complete hands-on preview of Kinect later this week.
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On a player note though I think that Microsoft has taken thier kind of gaming away from the segment of people that I believe would appriciate gaming the most, the disabled or wheelchair bound. I'm one of those people, I'll never get to play those Kinect games in the same way as everybody else where as the Wii and PS Move would still let me play without excessive movement.
Just a bunch of mini casual games like its sports game and that animal game. Even from other devs like Ubisoft are releasing the same stuff at launch with its work out game and MJ dance games.
This is what I expecting though but I hoping there would be some core games but everything is just a collection of mini games.
It goes something like this
Playstation eye = Advanced Kinext
Plastation Move = Wii Mote hd
SO! in the end both companies are seriously in need of a bigger excuse, now lemme be honest, I have no want to play a single game out there on the Kinect, and not because of xbox but because SONY ALREADY DID IT! And honestly its still around but it was never that great on its own, I cant see myself actually getting acuracy , as well as alot of poeple who are reporting on the kinect, the move although like the wii, sony is at least being truthful in saying that its the real deal, tons of people dont wanna admit it but once you play and see that not just because of HD the ps eye and the move works as a team, did anyone see Sorcery?
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