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Legend11 on 20 October 2010
Shonen said:

Hum.... this is smelling a  big fat FAIL for me , when u don wanna people reviewing something its cuz it sucks... 

 

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---Kinectis ?


You forgot Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.



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libellule on 20 October 2010
ultraslick said:

Lets assume for a moment that Microsoft is infact doing this because they know reviews will be sub-par, and that Kinect is essentially.. crap.

With the amount of money they are throwing behind the advertising, I dont think any of that will matter.

Casuals will buy this $150 camera this holiday because marketing will almost force them to do so. By Jan or Feb of next year, MS will announce some future hardocre titles for Kinect and will price drop most likely which wll keep the sales trickleing in until the next box launches with a more refined Kinect 2.0.

But outside of America, people have brains that tell them when a product is flawed, so if this little conspiracy is true, I would expect to see Kinect sales, (and 360 sales) heavily reliant on North America.

Even if u are a little harsch on american and that Kinect is not that crappy ... I do agree with your post



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Shonen on 20 October 2010
Legend11 said:
Shonen said:

Hum.... this is smelling a  big fat FAIL for me , when u don wanna people reviewing something its cuz it sucks... 

 

-Tomb Rainder Underworld

-FF 14 

---Kinectis ?


You forgot Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

One thing is to do a embargo , other is do not let the press to have the thing to write at least a preview or a hands-on (or hands-off in this case)



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SmokedHostage on 20 October 2010

I hope that Kinect isn't crappy.

At the same time, I hope folks aren't paying for a product that doesn't work.



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Nsanity on 20 October 2010
Legend11 said:

The gaming media is obviously going to rip apart most of the launch Kinect games so what Microsoft is doing isn't really surprising.  But some people are making a much bigger deal out of this than it is considering a lot of reviews get embargoed even reviews for AAA games that end up with good metacritic averages.


Exactly.



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Mr Khan on 20 October 2010
libellule said:
ultraslick said:

Lets assume for a moment that Microsoft is infact doing this because they know reviews will be sub-par, and that Kinect is essentially.. crap.

With the amount of money they are throwing behind the advertising, I dont think any of that will matter.

Casuals will buy this $150 camera this holiday because marketing will almost force them to do so. By Jan or Feb of next year, MS will announce some future hardocre titles for Kinect and will price drop most likely which wll keep the sales trickleing in until the next box launches with a more refined Kinect 2.0.

But outside of America, people have brains that tell them when a product is flawed, so if this little conspiracy is true, I would expect to see Kinect sales, (and 360 sales) heavily reliant on North America.

Even if u are a little harsch on american and that Kinect is not that crappy ... I do agree with your post

Casuals aren't stupid. They're not going to be "forced" into buying anything just because they see it on the TV.



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ZenfoldorVGI on 20 October 2010
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I think it's because in the past, the press has proven that their reviews are for the core gamer, while Kinect is obviously for casuals. The reviews for the games will suck. MS is attempting to hide that so when the casual gamers go into gamestop to preorder Kinect, they don't get a powerpoint presentation on why it sucks from the staff.



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Rath on 20 October 2010

It isn't unusual for top tier games to have an embargo - I think the reasoning is that it lets everybody know just how good it is just as it releases. Whet their appetite sort of.

Its not usually the same with hardware though is it? Do reviewers usually get their hands on a console pre-launch? That seems the best comparison to Kinect (apart from Move) that I can think of.



Doobie_wop on 20 October 2010
Legend11 said:
Shonen said:

Hum.... this is smelling a  big fat FAIL for me , when u don wanna people reviewing something its cuz it sucks... 

 

-Tomb Rainder Underworld

-FF 14 

---Kinectis ?


You forgot Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Uncharted 2

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/uncharted-2-among-thieves-review

http://gameinformer.com/games/uncharted_2_among_thieves/b/ps3/archive/2009/10/12/review.aspx

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3176267&p=37

Mass Effect 2

http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1062898p1.html

Mario Galaxy 2

http://www.next-gen.biz/features/review-super-mario-galaxy-2

http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/109/1091239p1.html

 

Your wrong. It's usually done with games that have problems. 



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ZenfoldorVGI on 20 October 2010

Also of note, I'm not sure it did Sony any good sending out Move a month early considering reviews.

Maybe this is a smart marketing move from MS?



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.