GodOfWar_3ever said:
Massive hype. MS are awesome at advertising. Even more casual friendly than the Wii. Justin Beiber... lol |
Hype...not really, no. You're basing this on forum sentiment and Amazon pre-orders.
MS may be awesome at advertising, but that doesn't mean everything they advertise will sell huge numbers.
More casual friendly than the Wii...oh, please. The console is $300, and Kinect is a further $150. That's significantly more than double the price of the Wii. Not to mention that the Wii capitalised on motion gaming when it was still rare and brought it through its infancy. A new motion control system isn't going to sell anywhere near Wii numbers.
Justin Bieber- I know this is a joke, so I'll leave it.
And then you have to remember that Kinect isn't a very versatile control system, when it comes to gaming. There's only so much that you can do with body movements. Hell, a real soldier in a real war can't shoot without the trigger on his gun, can he? A real driver in a real racecar isn't going anywhere without his accelerator and steering wheel, is he? Yes, Kinectminals, Dance Central and Child of Eden are all well and good, but no control scheme which is so clearly an accessory rather than an integral part of the experience is going to sell.
And if this E3 made anything perfectly clear, it's that Kinect is an accessory.
By the way, before anyone accuses me of blind Sony love, Move will perform worse. Sony won't advertise it nearly as much as Microsoft, it's far too similar to Wii motion control, and it's too late in the generation to overhaul the experience.
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