| Teeqoz said: Kinect was a collossal success though.... I thought this was a Zune thread EDIT: Unless they mean Kinect being bundled with all XBOs, in which casem yes, it was a pretty big failure. |
I also thought this was going to be a Zune thread, lol.
I wouldn't call Kinect a complete failure. Microsoft made a lot of oney on it, far more than they lost. The way I see it, they just too their money and ran.
As for thie revelation about Rare, yes they may have decided to do it but keep in mind that Rare is now managed by people who were hired by Microsoft. Had Rare still been an independent company under the Stampers' supervision, they may have tried a Kinect game, but they would have never had the entire company working on nothing but Kinect games. They would have had a developer who currently had nothing to work on do experiments in the testing department (a department which Microsoft closed down btw) and if they came up with something viable, one team would have been assigned to the game, whereas the other two or so teams would be working on something entirely different, non-Kinect related. It goes to show that even with a whole team of great people, incompetent management is enough to ruin everything.
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