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Adinnieken on 30 June 2013
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kupomogli said:
Adinnieken said:
kupomogli said:
Kinect sold far more than the PS Move, but the Move had more support on multiconsole games. Seems that developers felt it was far easier to tack on Move support than Kinect support despite having a much larger audience with Kinect.

Certain multiconsole games that had Kinect support are nothing more than voice commands, games like Binary Domain and Tom Clancy's End War which supported voice commands with a headset as well, or Skyrim, which had voice commands exclusive to Kinect probably because of some payoff from Microsoft to have exclusive Kinect support.

Nice try.

The Skyrim voice commands were actually a user generated mod that Bethesda adopted.  There were a number of other similar user created mods that were assembled into one patch.

Here's Bethesda's announcement on the Kinect support.  Coincidentally it also contains the announcement of exclusive DLC(timed) also for the 360.  Yeah.  This really wasn't a pay off to try and sell more Kinect's was it?  They could have easily added headset support even if it was exclusive to the 360.  This is the company who is vocal about refusing to fix game breaking bugs on previous titles after they have no more DLC plans, yet they're going to go out of their way to give you Kinect support.  Regardless if the voice support was because of a mod, the fact that it's Kinect exclusive is a pay off.  If it wasn't a payoff, Bethesda is saying fuck you to 360 owners without a Kinect and all PS3 owners, although I could see them saying that to PS3 owners.  They've pretty much made that clear they don't care about the PS3 fans with some of their replies.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/community/kinect-support-coming-skyrim/

If the developers felt it was an easily doable thing and they thought it would be a cool feature to have, it isn't a pay-off.  It's a pay-off when they don't have any interest and are given a lot of money to do something.  And they would have included it in the original release if it was a pay-off.  Why wait until months later to include something that has been a very popular DLC add-on for the Xbox 360 version of Skyrim, when you could have included it in the box?