Posted by boyo on Aug 10, 2010 20:38 (Aug 10, 2010 20:38)
Kudo Tsunoda, Microsoft’s general manager of Kinect, has said the tech is going back to the roots of arcade games.
Within an OXM feature, Tsunoda basically says that anyone playing with Kinect should get the game pretty much straight away, just like the old arcade games.
“The Kinect experience, no matter what kind of game it is, is getting back to what I feel is the old arcade style of game,” he explained. “If you were going to play a car game, you’d just grab a big wheel and start driving. People were putting money into the machine, so if they didn’t understand how to play it within the first 15 seconds, they would get really angry. It doesn’t mean that the games don’t need to have skill or depth or all the things that you think about games… they just have to start with ‘I know how to get in and play’.”
Retrofusion is looking forward to playing with Kinect this coming November.
I might have a look at this, I missed the whole Wii thing completely. The price does seem excessive and the clips I've seen make it look a bit imprecise. My big concern is they will probably release a V2.0 a year or so later.
I think one of Microsofts biggest hurdles with this is that no-one seems to be that excited about it. It may be superior to the Wiis motion control, but the Wii had a huge novelty factor which this doesn't seem to have. I too am happy to wait and give it a try if I ever see it at a knock down price in a few years. I am sure I can live without it.
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