Kinect downgraded to 320x240

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JaggedSac said:

Reasonable said:

Just to be clear I posted the DF thread as an interesting read - not because of anything specificaly to do with supposed spec changes.

I'd take the mooted drop in resolution as speculation until we see it officially called out by MS or by retailers - most of whom are still stating the higher resolution.

 

I know dude, I had actually read that article before it was posted, and it was a good read.  It is what prompted me to create a thread specifically asking where everyone had gotten the spec change from and the only thing there was, was Play.com.  Digital Foundry posted an article about it, then Kotaku saw the DF article, then writes their own(making up things as they go, such as that Kinect, at one point, could already do finger recognition), after which, Engadget sources Kotaku about the same thing.  Sheisty internet news.

I don't know why everyone is crying foul over the resolution being reduced to a quarter, when play.com themselves say that. It's not the image feed itself that has been reduced though, it's the depth map, which is exactly what DF have said all along.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-kinect-spec-blog-entry