Kinect lead designer Kudo Tsunoda has weighed into the decline of PC gaming whilst responding to a question as to how Microsoft are approaching the design of future titles for the new hands-free motion control device.

"If you think about the way that first person shooters evolved, they started on the PC," Tsunoda comments. "People for the longest time tried to port shooters from the PC onto the console. And people said the same things that they are saying now about Kinect - "It's never going to be responsive enough to do this," or "You're never going to get a fun first person shooter on the console - it's only made for a keyboard and mouse and that is the way it is supposed to be played." And as long as everyone was just porting the existing shooters over to console, they weren't as fun as the PC ones. Of course, they were built for the PC."

He continues, "Halo did an awesome job of building a first-person shooter exclusively for the console, and now hardly anyone plays first person shooters on the PC anymore. It's all about the console."

"And I feel it is the same with Kinect stuff. If you are constantly trying to take something that is made for a controller and port it over to Kinect, it's not going to be a good experience because it is made for a controller. If you take the time to build it for Kinect from the ground up, however, you can make something that is a very new experience, but lots of times even more fun than it was before."

In relation to this, NPD announced this morning that PC downloads have surpassed retail figures within the first six months of this year within the US, proving that PC gaming still has plenty of life left in it.

Between January to June alone, 11.2 million games were downloaded in comparison to a further 8.2 million that were sold at retail. Whilst sales for both were reportedly down by 21 per cent, Kudo is perhaps a little too quick to hammer a nail into the PC gaming coffin.

http://www.gamerzines.com/pc/news/kudo-hardly-any-fps-on-pc.html

What is up with this guy lately?

This guy is talking out of his ass.

Oh Kudo... I'm trying to go easy on you as you seem to get a lot of hate for being so closely tied to Kinect and wearing those glasses all the time (even though you've got that eye condition)... but you've gotta make an effort to not make yourself a target.

PC gaming is not dead.

Sincerely,

Random Gamer

Hahaha.

Not true.

Call of Duty 4 sold 10 Million units on PC.

Modern Warfare 2 was pirated almost 5 Million times by the end of 2009.

This guy is dumb!

As of this moment, Halo: Reach has 168k players online.  In comparison, the original Counter-Strike has around 50k players online.  Not bad for a game over decade old.

If you add the figures for CS: Source, then it comes to nearly 100K.

Lol, the utter lack of reading comprehension and MS blind hate cracks me up.  As usual, Kudo makes a very valid and useful point, but blind fanboys bash him without understanding his basic point.  The point he is trying to make is that 10 years ago, no one would have guessed that consoles would be the primary FPS platform in 2010.  Using that experience, he further projects that a similar change could occur with regard to kinect and "hardcore" games. 

It is really a simple straightforward argument that has very substantial merit.  Of course, as typical on the internet, fanboys failed to comprehend it.

"now hardly anyone plays first person shooters on the PC anymore."

What's hard to comprehend about that?