14th June 2010, 2:57 PM
An XBox slim with no price break, but built in wifi? that's a good deal... but the Wii an PS3 beat them to that punch.
Kinect looks bad. It's slow and unresponsive. It looks excellent as a menu interface. Like, imagine playing with a controller and then being able to drag and drop or motion your hand for certain moves. But as the game's only method of playing? Really? So Kinect has to have slow games? Even the racing lagged and looked awkward and that's just side to side movements.
It will get better as they have more time with it but Jesus. Talk about bait and switch. The social aspects look amazing though, I can totally see that becoming a mainstream product. That kinda makes me think that the real gaming of Kinect will be in the form of Facebook-style apps on XBox social zones. Cam chatting, group movie streams, and lots of "like" and "comment" posts. Chatroulette style apps for Kinect are going to do well, especially when you consider you can roulette someone, bullshit, then jump in to a game of whatever.
As long as its not a Kinect game. Ugh. Hopefully Sony is more impressive with Move. Nintendo is going to lose more online players to XBox's social aspects if they dont improve their systems, so here's hoping for that too.
3DS is going to steal the show but I know Nintendo's going to show either Wii2 or Wii Plus, even in the form of a super update for the system. The nerds see that Kinect needs work, but the normies will buy it up in droves.
All in all, a badly acted conference with a lackluster product. The silver lining is that developers will use Kinect and get used to it, I give it 3 years and we'll see something closer to that video they teased us with where we could scan skateboards and have full body immersion. But definitely not at launch.
Kinect looks bad. It's slow and unresponsive. It looks excellent as a menu interface. Like, imagine playing with a controller and then being able to drag and drop or motion your hand for certain moves. But as the game's only method of playing? Really? So Kinect has to have slow games? Even the racing lagged and looked awkward and that's just side to side movements.
It will get better as they have more time with it but Jesus. Talk about bait and switch. The social aspects look amazing though, I can totally see that becoming a mainstream product. That kinda makes me think that the real gaming of Kinect will be in the form of Facebook-style apps on XBox social zones. Cam chatting, group movie streams, and lots of "like" and "comment" posts. Chatroulette style apps for Kinect are going to do well, especially when you consider you can roulette someone, bullshit, then jump in to a game of whatever.
As long as its not a Kinect game. Ugh. Hopefully Sony is more impressive with Move. Nintendo is going to lose more online players to XBox's social aspects if they dont improve their systems, so here's hoping for that too.
3DS is going to steal the show but I know Nintendo's going to show either Wii2 or Wii Plus, even in the form of a super update for the system. The nerds see that Kinect needs work, but the normies will buy it up in droves.
All in all, a badly acted conference with a lackluster product. The silver lining is that developers will use Kinect and get used to it, I give it 3 years and we'll see something closer to that video they teased us with where we could scan skateboards and have full body immersion. But definitely not at launch.