kinect lag up on jimmy fallon

[mike_intellivision]

This product is still undergoing development ... but to anyone saying that there was not a lag/recognition problem in the video, I am not sure what they are seeing.

What was more of a concern to me was that the lag was not uniform. While Kudo Tsunoda's avatar seemed to be close on its reactions, Miranda Cosgrove's tended to be twitchy and lagged. This could be a calibration problem (minor) or could point to an issue related to having players of differing sizes playing at the same time.  (Miranda is quite petite compared to Kudo).

A couple of larger points that I see in here that I want to address.

First, Kinect (and to a lesser extent Sony Move) seem to be drawing the same types of reception that used to be reserved only for the Wii from many members of the video game media. I wonder if they feel threatened by the changing nature of video gaming. (As a Wii owner, it is nice to see Luke Plunkett "troll" on another system for a change.)

Second, the assumption by posters that the "casuals" will love it and buy it in droves shows how little people know about casual gamers. Casuals often tend to play free games, so they are not going to automatically come out and spend $360 for a simulated white water rafting experience (current estimated price for Kinect/X360 Slim Arcade bundle and Kinect Adventure if they don't already own an Xbox 360 -- actual price may be lower.).  

Also, the experience is not all that different than what can be had on the Wii (see everything from Wii Sports Resort to Namco Bandai's Active Life series with mats for the jumping). Unlike other gamers, casuals tend to play an experience, then want to move on to another experience. That is the only logical explanation for subsequent annual series of sports games and other sequels tending to sell much worse than the initial installment of a game. 

Plus, casuals don't like bad/broken games. There is a reason that a lot of games did not sell on the Wii -- word gets around when something does NOT work as well as it should have.

Mike from Morgantown