Kinect hate

[dallas]

nightsurge said:

Boutros said:

dallas said:

thranx said:

To me it seems like the mainstream media really likes kinect. I have seen nothing but positive news from all the nnormal news sources, which is what the target audience for kinect watch. On the other hand the gaming media does seem to hate it, I am not suprised they do. But in the end its the mainstream that will make or break this so I think Microsoft is doing it just right.

but anything that MS does is praised...the question is whether the original thing talked about is overrated

I don't remember much praised when Vista came out lol

Or any iteration of Internet Explorer in the last 10 years.

yeah but Windows and IE are basically set products that have been around for a while.  What about that flat-top computer thing that MS made so that you could do things like move photos around with your hands?  That got a lot of good press, and there was no way that MS was going to make $$$$ off of a $10,000 dollar peice of equipment that provides 5 minutes of entertainment.  It was supposed to be the newest thing from MS and MS even made several of these for sale but ended up being another project thrown in the trash after the numbers didnt materialize.

 

Seriously, MS is up there in corporate reputation with Google and Apple as far as success at what they want to accomplish so I'm not surprised at all with the amount of attention that kinect has gotten thus far. But even the preorders numbers posted on this website haven't been that great.  Sure, some store manager in england is seeing some preorders but who else?