Console Wars Season 2 – Move vs. Kinect: Design (Round 1)

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BenVTrigger said:

osamanobama said:

already saw the video several hours ago.

i dont really like them because, they always have pre-chosen outcome.

we all know that this will be a tie going into the last round. (and i think move will win)

also we all know move will win the next round to tie it up.

i dont like that every time LP talks about the kinect, he always talks about the prospect of it, want it can potentially do, what he thinks it might do eventually, never what it can and does do.

and again he says move is just a wii HD because it looks and plays similar to the wiimote. i dont get it, does he want them to have a completely random design like a pyramid or an octagon, of course its gonna look similar to the wii, you cant just make a non functional design just to say its different. all motion controller will look a play like that. just like all standard controls look and play similarly. xbox wouldnt just make a giant disk shaped controller, with 3 giant square mesh buttons, just to be different than the Dualshock, of course it looks similar and controlls in a similar fashion.

also if move is nothing new and a wii HD, how come he doesnt make that same claim for the kinect to eyetoy.

both of these products are natural evolutions of existing tech and products. 

kinect plays similarly to eyetoy and MOve plays similarly to wii and eyetoy

edit: i also dont like that he said that move was just made in reponse to the kinect and that he doesnt believe that it was in development before it. all it takes is a quick google search to find out that move demoed on the ps2 in the early 2000's, years before anyone even knew about the wii.

with all the tech detail he goes into, you would think that would be one of the easiest things to find out, i guess i just dont like non backed up biassed opinions

coming from someone who has both, the Kinect plays absolutley nothing like the eyetoy.  They aren't even comparable other than both have a camera.

With an eyetoy, you move around in front of a camera to interact with the onscreen game. With the Kinect, you move around in front of the camera to interact with the onscreen game. I'm not seeing the major differences. I've gotten into this debate before and no one could ever come up with a clear argument as to why they are so vastly different. The best they could come up with is that it has a higher fidelity and depth or whatever, but the same could be said for the Move compared to the Wiimote.

OT: These competitions are silly, they are only used to spur the fanboy fire so that their comments section can go on for like 20 pages with people yelling out racist remarks and making insults to each others mothers. Kinect should win just out of the sheer effort that Microsoft has put into the device though ( even if I don't think any of the games are good) and it does seem to have a brighter future on the software front.