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slowmo on 11 January 2012
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crissindahouse said:
Snesboy said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

The 360 never sold because of legitimate library, it sold to casuals and its still holding on. Kinect is selling Faster than the 360 did itself. This should tell you something. In the end its down to Halo alone this year (if you havent already played the Witcher 2 on PC). Kinect will still be going strong. No one has ever doubted Kinects ability to sell.

Amen. I don't know how many Xbox 360 Kinect kits I sold this holiday season but it was so noobs could play Just Dance and Kinect Sports. Those aren't real games. And Kinect is the only reason 360 is still selling.

i'm a core gamer for over 20 years now (if you can say core gamer to a gamer 20 years ago) and for me, dance central or kinect sports are real games. they aren't ego-shooters, they aren't rpg's but they are real games, just another categorie which many "new" core gamers don't like but i think many gamers over 30 who play videogames over 20 years now like those games as well.

15 years ago i played games with my friends now i play kinect games with my family and i don't have less fun with them and i did both just for fun and not to be "serious" and i still love to play "core" games but there are some like me who are "core" gamers playing with kinect as well. sure there are some casual gamers who play only kinect but there are many like me playing both kinds of videogames and even as casual games they are real games.

some core gamers are so crazy everything which doesn't fit in their "a game has to be hard, complicated, just for nerds" categorie has to be shit and cant be a real game. no way would someone like this have fun playing with some other friends or family kinect sports. "how can someone have fun with something which is made just to have a lot fun?" do they believe lol

most of the nerds hating kinect will like it a lot when they will have an own family and they will stop talking shit about it. they just hate it as long as they have noone to play with like a beautiful wife and a great kid.

last year i didn't buy some core games (dark souls for example) because i played kinect games. not because i'm a noob just because i didn't have time to play all core games because of some kinect hours. before kinect i would have said "baby i'm playing xbox now, cu later" and now i say many times "baby let's have some fun playing xbox". is this really so bad for so many people?

Yeah, too many kids posing as "real" gamers these days.  If you didn't load a game off a tape in your life then you can only be so much of a "hardcore" gamer.  You try playing a game that you finally get to the next level, you load it on tape just to find it crashed because you didn't have the volume set on just the right mark.  Old school games would drive you to want to put a fist through a TV in frustration then 5 minutes later put the biggest grin on your face with achievement.  A games supposed to be fun, I don't care how they make it fun to play as long as it achieves that goal.  I think sometimes the very definition of game is lost on some people " an activity that one engages in for amusement".

Great post btw