"Embarassing" Kinect Interview

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thismeintiel said:

daroamer said:

 

You seriously believe that?  Eyetoy sold 10 million units, if Harmonix could have done Dance Central on the Eyetoy then why didn't they? 

Why were the Japanese developers like Kojima so excited about the technology?  To quote from an article:

"For Kojima, seeing Natal for the first time was a shock. He likened the experience to the first time he witnessed the transition between 2D to 3D technology, saying he knew that a lot of different companies had tried to come up with similar things, but he was shocked to see that Microsoft had gotten there first."

You're saying he just didn't KNOW that Eyetoy could apparently do all the things Kinect can do?  Puh-lease.

You do realise I'm talking about the PS EYE for PS3, right?  Not the EyeToy for PS2.  Hence the reason I've been saying PS Eye and not EyeToy.

And those qoutes were from over a year ago at a MS conference.  Now, I'm not going to question Kojima's initial excitement about Kinect, but it seems that excitement may have waned as of late.  I mean Rising was initially rumored to use Kinect.  However, instead of Kojima putting all of his effort into Rising to make sure it worked with Kinect, he turned the majority of his attention to making Sleepwalker for the PSP.  Rising still looks to have no Kinect functionality. And there has still been no announcement of a Kojima directed Kinect game.  In fact, recent rumors state he is working on yet another PS3 exclusive.

LOOOOOOOOL. (Hint: It's Peace Walker)