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Euphoria14 on 28 October 2010

That was incredible.



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AnthonyW86 on 28 October 2010
daroamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

This makes me want Kinect to fail so hard right now... i just hate this commercial mainstream crap. Us (hard)core gamers have been supporting the industry for decades and this is what we get? The least Microsoft could have done is launch it with another system, like Xbox Play or something.


When did Microsoft say they will stop making games for the hardcore audience? 

Do you also hope that the movie and television industry will fail because they sometimes make entertainment that doesn't fall within your tastes?

I've got no problem with Kinect, it's more the way they try to ''hype'' and brainwash people into buying by forcing it into every popular thing or show they can find(and spend a ridiculous amount of money doing it no doubt). I really don't like it when a gaming brand(xbox) is being sold like somekind of cheap tell-sell product. Instead of throwing away money at this type of marketing they could have sold Kinect for $99 and doing the early adaptor and loyal gamer a favor who's support made Xbox what it is today, and didn't let it die a quick death back when it started.

But by looking at the marketing it's pretty obious we won't get many ''core'' games for Kinect anyway, wich is a shame.



Alby_da_Wolf on 28 October 2010
AnthonyW86 said:
daroamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

This makes me want Kinect to fail so hard right now... i just hate this commercial mainstream crap. Us (hard)core gamers have been supporting the industry for decades and this is what we get? The least Microsoft could have done is launch it with another system, like Xbox Play or something.


When did Microsoft say they will stop making games for the hardcore audience? 

Do you also hope that the movie and television industry will fail because they sometimes make entertainment that doesn't fall within your tastes?

I've got no problem with Kinect, it's more the way they try to ''hype'' and brainwash people into buying by forcing it into every popular thing or show they can find(and spend a ridiculous amount of money doing it no doubt). I really don't like it when a gaming brand(xbox) is being sold like somekind of cheap tell-sell product. Instead of throwing away money at this type of marketing they could have sold Kinect for $99 and doing the early adaptor and loyal gamer a favor who's support made Xbox what it is today, and didn't let it die a quick death back when it started.

But by looking at the marketing it's pretty obious we won't get many ''core'' games for Kinect anyway, wich is a shame.

Agree. Anyway, marketing is alas necessary, but they could anyway save some money preferring quality to quantity: I liked Ellen's demo, but Oprah was worse than awful, never seen an ad more uninspired, except those for local small enterprises on very small and almost amateurish local TVs.



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daroamer on 28 October 2010
AnthonyW86 said:
daroamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

This makes me want Kinect to fail so hard right now... i just hate this commercial mainstream crap. Us (hard)core gamers have been supporting the industry for decades and this is what we get? The least Microsoft could have done is launch it with another system, like Xbox Play or something.


When did Microsoft say they will stop making games for the hardcore audience? 

Do you also hope that the movie and television industry will fail because they sometimes make entertainment that doesn't fall within your tastes?

I've got no problem with Kinect, it's more the way they try to ''hype'' and brainwash people into buying by forcing it into every popular thing or show they can find(and spend a ridiculous amount of money doing it no doubt). I really don't like it when a gaming brand(xbox) is being sold like somekind of cheap tell-sell product. Instead of throwing away money at this type of marketing they could have sold Kinect for $99 and doing the early adaptor and loyal gamer a favor who's support made Xbox what it is today, and didn't let it die a quick death back when it started.

But by looking at the marketing it's pretty obious we won't get many ''core'' games for Kinect anyway, wich is a shame.

http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2009/11/sony-ps3-giveaway-1103.php

"Ellen recently surprised everyone in her audience with a huge gift -- a PlayStation 3! It includes a built-in Blu-ray player, WiFi, and tons of storage for music and pictures. Since they're so cool, she's decided to give 20 exclusively to our website visitors!


So PS3s sales surge last year was due to brainwashing confirmed!


Fab_GS on 29 October 2010

XBOX 360 Kinect Launch Party in Beverly Hills, LA




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Alby_da_Wolf on 29 October 2010
Fab_GS said:
XBOX 360 Kinect Launch Party in Beverly Hills, LA 

Meh. Better than Oprah, but it wasn't difficult. The two dorks that kept their hats on indoors were probably the least cool moment (and the saddest thing is that they most probably were supposed to be cool, instead). Ellen's demo is still the best up until now.



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Mr Puggsly on 29 October 2010
disolitude said:
Mr Puggsly said:

I doubt it. You gotta remember the advertising industry is reeling right now. MS is probably getting a lot of bang for their buck.

Kinect advertising is gonna be legendary in the gaming industry for years to come.

I work in the advertising industry and have since 2005...its far from doing badly, quite the opposite. Also this isn't regular advertising. Ellen gets plenty of sponsors and she don't have to do anything but wear a watch or a dress...but for her to dance like this, Bill gates must have told her "if you do this, when you get home, there will be a new house on top of your current house:

Perhaps it depends on the form of media or programming in question.

A show like Ellen is probably doing great. People love that guy.



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disolitude on 29 October 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
disolitude said:
Mr Puggsly said:

I doubt it. You gotta remember the advertising industry is reeling right now. MS is probably getting a lot of bang for their buck.

Kinect advertising is gonna be legendary in the gaming industry for years to come.

I work in the advertising industry and have since 2005...its far from doing badly, quite the opposite. Also this isn't regular advertising. Ellen gets plenty of sponsors and she don't have to do anything but wear a watch or a dress...but for her to dance like this, Bill gates must have told her "if you do this, when you get home, there will be a new house on top of your current house:

Perhaps it depends on the form of media or programming in question.

A show like Ellen is probably doing great. People love that guy.


lol...they sure do.

Otherwise print and generic TV advertising is going down, and fast...other TV stuff like Ellen and Oprah sponsorship, as well as online advertiring is trending up. Google made 3 billion dollars last quarter mostly on online search advertising.



FlyingLotus on 29 October 2010

Now this will boost sales



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its been confirmed today that GT5 has a weather system, track editor and go karts! seriously i think this is going to be the best selling in the series even beating GT3 sales of 14 million plus!

Sweep on 29 October 2010
daroamer said:
Sweep said:

It's indeed a cool thing to be paid to play in front of cameras... You better show that it's fun even if it's not


You're right, because if it's one thing we've heard over and over about Dance Central is how NOT fun it is!

/sarcasm

This game maybe fun (btw I don't see why it would be funnier than just dance for example).

But I didn't formulate correctly my sentence : "You better show it's fun even if you don't think the same/it is not your cup of tea" is a better formula of what I meant.

Who can pretend if she was really having a blast or pretend to have...?

Nevertheless If this game is a winner, it'll be soon multiplat. It is not an absolute Xbox Exclusive and Harmonix devs said that it can be done with PSEye.