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Augen on 16 July 2013

"The generally wretched performance of the 3DS, Vita, and Wii U"

The 3DS is placed in same category of performance as Vita and Wii U? I am then curious what the threshold for performing well is at this point.



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Soundwave on 16 July 2013

Welp. PS4 is going to win this generation pretty much by default it looks like.

If they fall too far behind Sony, I can see MS hitting the panic button and sending out Kinect-less SKUs.



ethomaz on 17 July 2013

MS sells the Kinect One SDK with two (2) Kinect One + SDK tools at $399.

No way it cost way more than $150... this dev is telling bullshit.

I think the Kinect One for Windows will be sold at $250-300 in retail in 2014.



theprof00 on 17 July 2013

To include such a hefty burden into the price tag....oh I wonder wonder wonder why kinect 2 is so integral to their strategy, rather than just another kinect 1. I'm sure at least a few people will have no idea.



Osc89 on 17 July 2013
ultraslick said:
yo_john117 said:
I'm glad they have Kinect included because it does seem like an integral part of The One. The instant voice switching between whatever I want will be worth it alone.


Which is the price of a microphone.. I do think kinect will be emphasized, however for Microsoft to only show us multimedia uses for it so far,doesn't seem to be that we'll thought out. Maybe the senior people at Microsoft are spread too thin, idk.

serious question- have we seen any non casual games using the kinetic 2.0 in a way which the first kinect was unable?

or.. Come to think of it, is there any info on how this version of kinect is better? I'm not being facetious, genuinely want to know.


Yes, they really need to explain the value of this new kinect. The Wii U hasn't managed to do this with the gamepad so they are selling only on the first party they produce (and if MS have to do that, they will do even worse).



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HokageTenshi on 17 July 2013

this proves M$ do have a last resort to safe XBO if it really don't sell as good as they expect... good news for those Kinect haters XB fans can wait for a non-Kinect2 XBO SKU that will be much cheaper than PS4 in future...



papamudd on 17 July 2013

*well ofcourse you gotta pay extra for the NSA access to your Kinect!


*might be true but still don't care



Talal said:
I will permaban myself if the game releases in 2014.

in reference to KH3 release date

Mad55 on 17 July 2013
KingdomHeartsFan said:
yo_john117 said:
I'm glad they have Kinect included because it does seem like an integral part of The One. The instant voice switching between whatever I want will be worth it alone.


So its worth paying double the price to say something instead of pushing a button...okay.


Your not paying double the price if kinect wasn't included it woulnd't be 250 for the one. 



Zappykins on 17 July 2013

But it would just be a 'gussied up' Xbox 360 with out the new Kinect 2.0

I’m just waiting for them to announcing some new games, and amazing updates with the new X1.

An the person that says that Microsoft would make $100 per unit on the original Kinect 1.0 really doesn’t understand retail. For a standard model, they might have started with making $19 per unit – but remember they have Billions (with a B) in research to pay for by it.

IMO it would kill the Xbox One to drop Kinect. I don’t think they will do it.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

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ArnoldRimmer on 17 July 2013
ultraslick said:

or.. Come to think of it, is there any info on how this version of kinect is better? I'm not being facetious, genuinely want to know.

The RGB camera has better resolution now and can now see in darkness thanks to infrared.

But for games, it's mainly the depth sensor that's being used. The depth sensor will probably see a resolution increase as well (Kinect on Xbox 360 used a depth sensor resolution of just 320x240 pixels), but as far as I know, Microsoft has so far not provided concrete details on the resolution improvement of this particular sensor.

All in all one can say: Kinect 2 hardware is hardly more than improved Kinect 1 hardware. The accuracy and picture quality will be somewhat better, but it won't allow for any really new experiences that just wouldn't have been possible with Kinect 1 hardware.