Microsoft: “No Reviews of Kinect!”

[Alby_da_Wolf]

thranx said:

thismeintiel said:

thranx said:

oniyide said:

@Alby da Wolf  couldnt agree more, I still dont see why they dont have advance reviews, Move had it, Wii had it(I think). IF your scared MS just say your scared!

We all understand if your too sared to go try it yourself. What would you do if you liked it. Like has been said before, MS has kinect set up all over the place fopr people to ry, i really doubt they 're scared of people using it. Ihaven't really read a bad hands on from a regulkar person who has tried it.

Regardless of whether he tries it or not, MS, just like Sony and Nintendo before them, should be willing to let their product be tested by those in the gaming media.  To me that does sound like fear.  Something tells me if things were reversed, you wouldn't be so quick to defend Sony.

I probably wouldn't be in the sony thread until i get my ps3 and my move, but thats besides the point. Kinect is not meant for gamers just yet, so why let the gaming media ruin the positive vibe it has going for it on the casual front? I wouldn't. They are playing it smart, no need for the gaming media, as they are not the ones they are trying to get to buy kinect. MS has Oprah, justin bieber and others to sell this product. They dont need gamer reviews. How is letting your potential customers use your product as is a sign of being scared to show it? I think it speaks for itself. Would you rather drive the car you will purchase yourself, or read a review of it? What gives you the better impression on how you will like someting or how it works.

This apparent but false MS self confidence about letting people try has already been debunked contless times, both in this thread and in others: people tries Kinect in MS' booths for a limited time in a standard environment, while at home they'd use it for more time in environments varying from home to home. Reviewers would be able to test Kinect for a longer time and find possible real world glitches or short games longevity. When you buy a car, trying it jourself is important, but a review made by a competent motoring journalist is important too, as he will be able to try the car longer and also in limit conditions, to tell you, for example, how safe it is in emergency manoeuvres. And "casuals" aren't a new alien race, they are common people, plain and simple, even if they don't usually read car magazines, for example, they most often ask friends and even buy mags just for the occasion when they have to buy a car. Here, I was the n-th person to write this arguments, I'm sure many did it better than me before, but each time there will be somebody that tries again to make people believe that not having reviews is better, and also pretending that nobody ever debunked it.

At least this time you wrote the right thing: not allowing reviews is good and smart for MS. Not for users. BTW, would you buy a Yugo if Oprah said it's a good car?