I was reading the article about how MS sent Jim Sterling a take-down notice for his rather harsh article about the Kinect"teasers", but as I watched the Kinectimals one I couldn't help but wonder if it could be considered false advertising.

Now before people start jumping down my throat try reading what I have to say and if so please inform me on how the business works because I will be the first to admit that I am not 100% sure on the rules of advertising, but to me, a consumer who has plenty of info on the Kinect, I know this commercial lies.

Those kids are wiggling their fingers in what looks to be them petting the animal or playing with it in some way.

Isn't Kinect incapable of detecting that? 

Just want to get some input, because I saw this brought up in the comments section and was wondering what others might know that I might not. Maybe this is partly the reason why they didn't want them shown and sent out the take-down notices?

Thanks.

well all there adds are false, meaning they aren't showing real game play, hey PS move is the same not real game play.

Now i do think the kinect does pick up that, but i think they are a bit close and if the camera has blind spots but if it can see you umm i guess you can. 

I'm sure the PS3 can't do everything either....

stop making these negative threads. It's getting old.

Sure it does. I just had it fetch me milk and made me toast.

What I see from that ad is you can only 'pet the animal' or 'make the animal lie down' and thats it.

mine is just sitting here and collecting dust.

But I've to say it's the most beautiful dust I've ever seen ;)

What does that have to do with this thread at all? This isn't about Move commercials and if I saw a Move commercial showing something the Move couldn't do then I would have brought it up.

I made an observation and bring up a very valid point, if you don't like it stay out of the thread or rebut it.

What negative thread did I make recently? Posting the Kinect manual? Before that I posted a thread on GAME saying Kinect quantities are running out fast.

So yeah, seriously?  

diseptive - maybe.  false - certainly not. 

MS makes no claims in the commerial that finger movements actually do anything and as long as you can make the required input movements while moving your fingers MS didn't do anything legally wrong in that commerial. 

honestly, i think you are looking for faults a bit too hard.

What are you talking about?

He has a valid point and thread. You could have just stuck with the OP and given your 2 cents instead of going off-topic, trolling then derailing like that.

@Op

I'm actually disturbed by the children playing dead

Thank you for the response. As I stated in the OP I wasn't sure on how it works in the advertising world and only brought it up because it was a topic of discussion in another sites comment section.

It is simply something to talk about. Nothing more. I saw it as a commercial displaying how you are the controller and showing more of how you play the games instead of what you are actually playing, so it got me thinking, especially with Sterling's write up about MS ordering him to take down the ads in his earlier article. 

People think he was ordered to take them down because he bashed the hell out of them, but I thought maybe it could be on the lines of what I was thinking, because ordering something to be taken down just because you don't like it? Well, that doesn't seem right does it?

Not much to talk about these days you know? Nothing to do until I pick up a game later today, which I am still undecided on.