Only if you start an "Official Kinect is sold out everywhere" thread as we get just as many of those.

If it is a timed embargo, then it is business-as-usual (for all providers).

If the magazines do not like the product, it will really get panned.

Game Informer did not get a Wii in advance ... and you have seen its reviewers of Wii games.

Finally, casuals are not DUMB. I am still waiting for someone to show me a Wii game that was not genre defining that sold well despite poor reviews.  Carnival Games was the right game and the right time. Six Flags was not.

Mike from Morgantown

lol

Many traditional video game reviewers and consumers are evidently hostile to Kinect and what it entails. I believe MS is aiming Kinect at a totally different market to the traditional, so it makes sense to focus on that without allowing the hostile crowd to poison their launch. MS doesn't care if the hostile corwd gets bent  out of shape, they've already made up their mind that Kinect sucks and just want to proselytize their case.

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what i find interesting is this whole argument of these games arent for the core. by that reasoning no one should ever make fun of the Wii library ever again. Its ok to crap on Wii and Move for casuals but when MS does it your not allowed to talk crap because its MS???? You either like the idea of motion control or you dont, dont jump on the bandwagon cause your system of choice finally decides to embrace it. this goes for Sony guys too

between this and the horrid games theyre releasing with it i cancelled my pre order, i wanted to try it but now i think ill wait and see how the reviews go lol.

makes me think theres something for them to hide

Me thinks you didnt have it pre-ordered, so Me dont cares

It all makes sense if you make one assumption: Microsoft believes that many people will be disappointed when they try out Kinect in real-world setups and for themselves.

It's okay however for Microsoft to let people try out Kinect in special Kinect booths at Gamescon, E3 etc. however, because that way Kinect's biggest problems do not get apparent:

• Kinect requires lots of space - it works fine in large, completely empty rooms, but it won't work well in many living rooms, at least without seriously rearranging the furniture
• Almost all Kinect games do not work if you're sitting - if you're trying Kinect out in a booth that doesn't even have a chair then you won't even consider sitting down
• Playing Kinect is exhausting and only fun for a few minutes - people will not realize this if they only have five minutes in a Kinect booth, but reviewers with review copies could play it as they like and they would realize

Oh for f---'s sake.  They have had Kinect at malls for people to try, a huge beta and places like PAX.  If they were concerned about a crap product that no one would like and negative word of mouth, it'd have been hidden from view all this time.

They're not letting it out because the software isn't the greatest stuff ever, I'd imagine, not because of the unit itself.  That's my guess.