Pretty much this whole 'Conference' was just weird shit. When a few game sites reported that the Kinect show was confusing and just weird, I thought meh but right now as more impressions come through, I'm really beginning to think that this was just a waste of time really.
Lag, skepticism mar Cirque du Soleil/Project Natal event
- June 13, 2010 22:13 PM PT
The debut of Microsoft's full body motion controller, now dubbed Kinect instead of Natal, was a spectacle of multimedia performance art and audience participation. Technical issues and a sullen audience, however, dampened the effect we think Microsoft was going for.
The "meat" of the show was a series of short game demos for products mentioned in the USA Today story -- Knect Sports, Kinect Adventures, and Kinectimals. The first two games are mini-game compilations with sports like soccer and javelin or races on rafts or cars. Kinectimals, meanwhile, appears to be like Nintendogs -- only with jungle cats. Other games included an unnamed Star Wars game where your lightsaber swinging motions translate directly to your character in the game, a car racing game, a hip hop dance game, and a yoga/Tai Chi simulator. The non-game demos were for video chat, interactive Xbox Dashboard menus, a Disney Tinkerbell interface, and a random video of Xbox avatars flying through the air like the toasters from that old Windows desktop application, After Dark.
The unnamed Star Wars game got the loudest cheers, while Kinectimals won a few coos from the audience. The longest demos were for the Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures games -- but these titles seemed to suffer lag and the presentation of the games made it difficult to understand how the controls worked (especially for the team sports like soccer). The hip hop game seemed promising, as did the yoga simulator, winning some speculative noises.
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/215435/lag-skepticism-mar-cirque-du-soleil-project-natal-event/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed: GameProNews (GamePro.com Daily News)&utm_content=Twitter
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That was from Gamepro and IGN reports that it's one of the weirdest things they've ever seen.
"My moment of zen came not as the burlapped elf men playfully dangled tin cans from sticks or when the show-closing music swelled as images of Xbox Live Avatars flew against a starry sky. For me, the highlight of the evening was watching Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki walk into the event in his white robe, taking in the scene behind his traditional sunglasses. He looked around a few times, stood quietly for a few moments and then turned around and left."
http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1096874p1.html
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And guess what? Even VGC reported that event was indeed weird. So before anyone tries to defend this event, think again. Sereveal Different sites reporting that it was weird can't be wrong. This all basically sums up to be an underwhelming so called conference.
