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One of the of the most important games of E3, Dance Central, may not be an Xbox 360 exclusive.

I ran into some of the Harmonix folks last week during a rooftop party for Kinect in downtown Los Angeles and among the group was studio co-founder Alex Rigopulos.

As you can imagine, Rigopulos is a big fan of his Kinect-powered dancing game, Dance Central. As am I. I told Rigopulos that I thought the title could become as culturally relevant as Guitar Hero and Rock Band become. He did not disagree.

Could you see people playing this in a bar, I asked?

Rigopulos said he could, that he hopes his game kicks off a revolution of not just dancing, but choreographed dancing. Dance fights! Could there be dance fights? He didn't take the bait.

But, he did talk about the possibility of the motion-sensing, dance-teaching game coming to other platforms.

Harmonix does not strike me as the sort of studio that makes exclusive titles. Why would they be? It cuts down on their audience and their profits.

Rigopulos said that the team is looking into the possibility of bringing Dance Central to the Playstation 3 with the help of Move. We think it's possible, he said.

The Wii? Not a chance, he said. It's motion tracking doesn't collect enough data and track things in a way that could translate into the sort of dance game that Harmonix would want to make.

Sorry Wii owners, you're going to have to sit this revolution out.

http://kotaku.com/5569957/harmonix-dance-central-could-come-to-ps3-but-not-wii



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good to hear :) , I liked the Dance Central presentation, because (as normal from Harmonix) it looked quality and if it really comes to PS3 I'll probably pick it up



Sh1nn said:

One of the of the most important games of E3, Dance Central, may not be an Xbox 360 exclusive.

I ran into some of the Harmonix folks last week during a rooftop party for Kinect in downtown Los Angeles and among the group was studio co-founder Alex Rigopulos.

As you can imagine, Rigopulos is a big fan of his Kinect-powered dancing game, Dance Central. As am I. I told Rigopulos that I thought the title could become as culturally relevant as Guitar Hero and Rock Band become. He did not disagree.

Could you see people playing this in a bar, I asked?

Rigopulos said he could, that he hopes his game kicks off a revolution of not just dancing, but choreographed dancing. Dance fights! Could there be dance fights? He didn't take the bait.

But, he did talk about the possibility of the motion-sensing, dance-teaching game coming to other platforms.

Harmonix does not strike me as the sort of studio that makes exclusive titles. Why would they be? It cuts down on their audience and their profits.

Rigopulos said that the team is looking into the possibility of bringing Dance Central to the Playstation 3 with the help of Move. We think it's possible, he said.

The Wii? Not a chance, he said. It's motion tracking doesn't collect enough data and track things in a way that could translate into the sort of dance game that Harmonix would want to make.

Sorry Wii owners, you're going to have to sit this revolution out.

http://kotaku.com/5569957/harmonix-dance-central-could-come-to-ps3-but-not-wii


it's not one of the most important games of E3. That's just crazy talk. lol



well dance central was the kinect game i would be most interested in so i guess bringing it to move would excite me sort of....not holding my breath though.



How is it one of the most important games of E3? If that was important, then what about Zelda or Twisted Metal? There were half a dozen other games more important than this on E3...



I am a Gamer... I play games and not consoles. I have a PC and Console on which I game... I like games. End of Story!

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I think Harmonix is competely oblivious to the existance of Motion Plus. Poor guys.



Poor Harmonix...they clearly don't want to work on the little white box, but they've already blown through all the decent excuses, and we've still got years to go this generation!



Shoestar said:

How is it one of the most important games of E3? If that was important, then what about Zelda or Twisted Metal? There were half a dozen other games more important than this on E3...


i think thats the best M$ showed... im guessing, i have no idea.



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Thanks Harmonix but we already have Just Dance.



Chrizum said:

I think Harmonix is competely oblivious to the existance of Motion Plus. Poor guys.

How exactly do you expect one Motion Plus to track two arms and two legs?

The best you can do with a Wii Remote is something like Just Dance. If you want to develop a more realistic dancing game you necessarily need more sensors - or a camera like Playstation Move / Microsoft Kinect.