BBC Kinect Preview. With Video.

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Euphoria14 said:

 

Also in the video they claim that the Military, Hospitals and Banks are trying to get their hands on Kinect technology.

Do you believe this?

 

Well Kudo Tsunada said it, so it must be true...right?

Call me traditional but I'd rather have something in my hand when I'm playing table tennis. But for the volley ball Kinect is obviously the winning platform.

For me Kinect is all win with games where your character / avatar isn't holding anything. But where your avatar / character is holding things in their hand then I think Wiimote and Move are better technology, especially where subtle movements of what's in your hands is important for how the game performs.

I think "change the way we game forever" is both true and not true. Wii has already rung in the motion control change, so the change gaming forever thing predates Kinect. And even though I'm loathe to mention it Eyetoy did bring us controller-free gaming a generation ago. What Eyetoy didn't do is change the main means of gaming control. Kinect has taken controller-free gaming to an entirely new and much more accessible level. So it will change forever the way we game in that controller-free gaming will be a much much bigger part of gaming than it was pre-Kinect. But it won't become the main control system for gaming.

The other thing Kinect will do is up the ante for the next generation. Nintendo will need to do something pretty special to keep the top spot, and not just make a Wii with HD. Sony will have to think about making the PSEye something more than a more or less standard webcam with a microphone.