Kantor said:
greenmedic88 said:
Kantor said:
Metallicube said:
-PaNdOrA- said:
So now:
- Motion controls are awesome
- Casual games are welcome
I guess the Wii is "cool" now :D
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Haha yeah.. The only thing I liked about this conference is that NOBODY can POSSIBLY diss Nintendo's conferences anymore for being too "casual" focused. Nintendo would have to do A LOT to top this in terms of casual focus. They'd have to like, have a bunch of todlers on stage playing "Imagine Babiez", or have an old man playing "Wii Nursing Home" or something.
This confernece made Nintendo's 2008 look like gold.
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I wouldn't go that far. The real issue wasn't that it was so casual focused. The issue was that pretty much every game they showed for Kinect was a Wii game without a controller.
Oh, and everyone saying "My daughter/wife/grandmother loved the look of Kinect", are they the ones who are going to buy Kinect?
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I think for all of the households that ALREADY have an Xbox, odds are good that if there's a daughter/wife/grandmother in the house, Kinect would be a likely purchase.
For all those households without out one, no. Assuming the Kinect kits are $150 on top of a $300 console, no. Everyone will not be buying this. That is simply not accessible enough. If that's the pricing scenario, most of those with casual interest who said "yes, I'd like to play that!" will end up saying "no, I won't pay that much."
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And the latter are clearly the people to whom Microsoft is trying to appeal here.
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Then they'll have to do some creative bookkeeping so they can sell Xbox/Kinect bundles for under $300, because the casual family audience they're trying to appeal to won't pay well over $400.
It's still possible MS sells the kits for under $100, but I really think if they were going to go aggressive with the pricing angle, they would have most definitely announced the price with much fanfare rather than completely omit it.
