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Dodece on 29 June 2010

With all the talk of the launch lineup for Kinect I had a revelation. With all the focus on building games around Kinect I have not heard Microsoft speaking up about backwards compatibility with their existing lineup. Be it just voice commands for previous games, or motion detection prompts. We all talk about the lack of core or hardcore titles for the peripheral. Just for the cost of a small team Microsoft could patch dozens, or even hundreds of older titles that already fill this criteria. So wouldn't this be a perfect way to dispatch the more critical comments that they have been hearing.

I doubt most core or hardcore players would want to drop their controller, but if you add voice recognition or hand prompts to augment hard control schemes I doubt many of this demographic would complain. Hell it might give the peripheral a new stronger sales point. Play your old games again, ditch the menu, speak and let it be so. Instead of the peripheral just being about increasing market share with a new demographic. Microsoft could really use this tech to enhance games that already exist. I don't think it has to be a either or proposition here. This tech could be used to make hardcore games better, and they don't even have to build new games for that. Just patch in support for the tech on many of their older games.



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welshbloke on 29 June 2010

Microsoft Game Studios’ Kudo Tsunoda has said it’s unlikely it will be possible to “patch” current Xbox 360 titles to make them compatible with upcoming motion sensing technology Natal.



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Solid_Snake4RD on 29 June 2010

it can be patched buy one problem is that there are reports that KINECT cannot work with big titles as it takes too much power

 

so patching it won't it useful as it would be difficult to make KINECT work when Gears 2 is already eating alot of of 360



oldschoolfool on 29 June 2010
Dodece said:

With all the talk of the launch lineup for Kinect I had a revelation. With all the focus on building games around Kinect I have not heard Microsoft speaking up about backwards compatibility with their existing lineup. Be it just voice commands for previous games, or motion detection prompts. We all talk about the lack of core or hardcore titles for the peripheral. Just for the cost of a small team Microsoft could patch dozens, or even hundreds of older titles that already fill this criteria. So wouldn't this be a perfect way to dispatch the more critical comments that they have been hearing.

I doubt most core or hardcore players would want to drop their controller, but if you add voice recognition or hand prompts to augment hard control schemes I doubt many of this demographic would complain. Hell it might give the peripheral a new stronger sales point. Play your old games again, ditch the menu, speak and let it be so. Instead of the peripheral just being about increasing market share with a new demographic. Microsoft could really use this tech to enhance games that already exist. I don't think it has to be a either or proposition here. This tech could be used to make hardcore games better, and they don't even have to build new games for that. Just patch in support for the tech on many of their older games.

It depends on the game,they can't just patch kinnect gameplay to any game just like that. lol



Goddbless on 29 June 2010
Dodece said:

With all the talk of the launch lineup for Kinect I had a revelation. With all the focus on building games around Kinect I have not heard Microsoft speaking up about backwards compatibility with their existing lineup. Be it just voice commands for previous games, or motion detection prompts. We all talk about the lack of core or hardcore titles for the peripheral. Just for the cost of a small team Microsoft could patch dozens, or even hundreds of older titles that already fill this criteria. So wouldn't this be a perfect way to dispatch the more critical comments that they have been hearing.

I doubt most core or hardcore players would want to drop their controller, but if you add voice recognition or hand prompts to augment hard control schemes I doubt many of this demographic would complain. Hell it might give the peripheral a new stronger sales point. Play your old games again, ditch the menu, speak and let it be so. Instead of the peripheral just being about increasing market share with a new demographic. Microsoft could really use this tech to enhance games that already exist. I don't think it has to be a either or proposition here. This tech could be used to make hardcore games better, and they don't even have to build new games for that. Just patch in support for the tech on many of their older games.


If they wanted to add voice commands to a game couldn't you just use a headseat instead of yelling across the room into the camera's mic?



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Solid_Snake4RD on 29 June 2010
oldschoolfool said:
Dodece said:

With all the talk of the launch lineup for Kinect I had a revelation. With all the focus on building games around Kinect I have not heard Microsoft speaking up about backwards compatibility with their existing lineup. Be it just voice commands for previous games, or motion detection prompts. We all talk about the lack of core or hardcore titles for the peripheral. Just for the cost of a small team Microsoft could patch dozens, or even hundreds of older titles that already fill this criteria. So wouldn't this be a perfect way to dispatch the more critical comments that they have been hearing.

I doubt most core or hardcore players would want to drop their controller, but if you add voice recognition or hand prompts to augment hard control schemes I doubt many of this demographic would complain. Hell it might give the peripheral a new stronger sales point. Play your old games again, ditch the menu, speak and let it be so. Instead of the peripheral just being about increasing market share with a new demographic. Microsoft could really use this tech to enhance games that already exist. I don't think it has to be a either or proposition here. This tech could be used to make hardcore games better, and they don't even have to build new games for that. Just patch in support for the tech on many of their older games.

It depends on the game,they can't just patch kinnect gameplay to any game just like that. lol


not any game but he is questioning the possibility



specialops787 on 29 June 2010
Solid_Snake4RD said:

it can be patched buy one problem is that there are reports that KINECT cannot work with big titles as it takes too much power

 

so patching it won't it useful as it would be difficult to make KINECT work when Gears 2 is already eating alot of of 360


This. Kinect requires extra processing power. Any core games we seee for Kinect will most likely not be as visually appealing, and must be made from the ground up.



specialops787 on 29 June 2010

Although if it was just voice commands, it shouldnt take much power, but it wouldnt really be worth it IMO.



Porcupine_I on 29 June 2010
specialops787 said:

Although if it was just voice commands, it shouldnt take much power, but it wouldnt really be worth it IMO.


if it's just voice commands you don't even need kinect, a simple headset would do



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welshbloke on 29 June 2010
Porcupine_I said:
specialops787 said:

Although if it was just voice commands, it shouldnt take much power, but it wouldnt really be worth it IMO.


if it's just voice commands you don't even need kinect, a simple headset would do

Exactly and we have already had games that used voice commands.



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