Does it matter if Kinect works right?

[ZenfoldorVGI]

Soleron said:

 

A couple of things, I don't want to start a flame war, or anything of the sort. On a few things, we agree to disagree, and on a few things you wrote here, you assume I implied things that I didn't.

A. I don't know, care, or even believe Kinect will be a success, nor do I have an opinion as to its quality. Most of your responses concern this, including your cherrypicked last response, which leaves out the many success thanks in-part to the casual media. :P

B. The Wii is not a good yardstick but I am theoretically comparing this device to the Wii-Mote, and not the Wii. Sales here again, are irrelivant to the arugment, I'm speaking on the strategy of the device.

C. You appear to have the hardcore mindset that if the device does not work right according to your specifications, then it is junk. It only has to work as intended and arouse an interest or word of mouth to casuals. The Wii-mote is FAR from perfect. Again, it "does not work right" according to popular belief, but that doesn't matter. Casuals certainly don't think its junk, but many people here do. I don't. I think it is working as intended, and that Nintendo over-reached a little bit, technology-wise, but it worked.

D. As for what's new about it, that's obvious. Denying that this device is attempting to offer a relatively new experience to its userbase, would be dredging up petty bickering for its own sake. As far as that goes, there is nothing new about anything, and it's all bullshit. If this style of gameplay was invented 100 years ago by space aliens, it's still "new" at Kinect lauch, because it is being popularized. As for the Playstation Eye, I owned it. I batted the little ninja's out the caves like everyone else. It is a vastly different tech that shares some gameplay similarities with the Kinect, but give me a break. :/ We know what we're talking about here. Kinect is a new experience in the eyes of consumers and core gamers alike. To deny that is to deny that the Wii or the DS brought a new experience to the table. It's less about the tech, and more about the content, integration, and popularization.

F. I don't think you disagree with much of anything I've said, despite your response. :P

G. And as for my zelda example, you missed my response. I admitted there may have been technial difficulities, however, I also claim that what we saw on stage is a much more similar experience to the one I and my core gamers friends have had at home, with  struggling with the imprecise and cluncky Wii motion controls.