| ArnoldRimmer said: I'm sure most people are indeed having great fun when they try Kinect on such events, just like you. I just wonder how representative that experience is in regard to the real, overall and long run experience people will be having at home. For example, nobody's will be exhausted when he plays Kinect for like 10 minutes. But at home you don't play that short, and exhaustion will very very soon stop people from having fun with a game. Playing a fun racer standing up and with your arms in the air is not going to seem like a problem if you only play one or two races, but if you played longer it would soon get the fun out the fun racer. On such promo events having sufficient space is no problem. This is however going to be a serious problem many people will be facing at home. Everybody loves "Dance Central", it seems to be a very good and funny game. But will one great game really justify spending an additional 150$ only for having the required hardware? As much talk there is about Dance Central, there is hardly any talk about other Kinect games at all. Except for Kinect adventures because it's bundled with Kinect and seems to be quite okay. In the end I think Kinect will indeed be great fun when you play it with others and maybe you're even drunk. But I cannot see people having much fun with Kinect playing alone. So I fear that Kinect will soon end up being considered "a funny but very expensive gadget for parties", or, even worse "that expensive gadget you need to play Dance Central at parties". I think Kinect may face a fate similar to that of the Wii: Great for parties, but apart from that hardly being used at all. But the Wii has a lot more good games... |
Kinect has potential to grow out further than what you would assume... just like the recent patent that it can do ASL... it's 4 array mics would allow direction play calling in Madden and there are tons of other useful things
