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Game Informer (Gave ita positive review): http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/11/03/kinect-hardware-review.aspx



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Here is a link from G4TV...no score, but it is a fairly positive overview of the product.

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/708432/An-Overview-of-Microsoft-Kinect-for-the-Xbox-360.html



"For all the talk of revolutionizing the Xbox 360 experience and making gaming more natural/ accessible, it's bordering on absurd how broken Kinect is when it comes to something as simple as working in your home. I find the technology itself fascinating, but the fact that I know a lot of people who simply won't get Kinect to work in their rooms beyond troubling. Given that Microsoft conducted a beta program with actual consumers, this issue is doubly surprising, but it could just be that Kinect just works that way (or doesn't, given your room) and there's no way short of redesigning the sensor to fix it.

If Kinect does work for you, congratulations: you have what amounts -- for now -- to a novelty peripheral that is in no way geared towards the day-one buyer or "core" gamer. Microsoft conceived a potential game-changer with Project Natal, it just seems like Kinect was born prematurely."   -Joystiq

Ouchies.  It's crazy how different places can have such differing views.



Kotaku

http://kotaku.com/5680501/review-kinect



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Here is Gamespot talking about setting up Kinect at their home

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/dancecentral/video/6283517

Shack News: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/66328



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PCMAG 4/5

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372069,00.asp

GameInformer 8/10

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/11/03/kinect-hardware-review.aspx

Pocket-Lint 9/10

http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/5108/microsoft-kinect-for-xbox-360

MSXBOX 8/10

http://www.msxbox-world.com/xbox360/features/article/498/Kinect-Hardware-review.html

Strategy Informer 9.5/10

http://www.strategyinformer.com/xbox360/projectnatal/1278/review.html

CNET UK 4/5

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/game-controllers/microsoft-xbox-360-kinect-review-50000560/

New York Times 9/10

http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/arts/television/04kinect.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

CVG 8.8/10

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=273523

 



Sorry but the only reason the Wii sold millions is because you got a superior game for free with the system. Paying over $200 for the item and a sports game is a complete deal breaker. This will inevitably get the "have to get" sales but after the first rush it will lose momentum. This really isn't suited to gaming and is marketed in the wrong market really.



"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.

 

""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""

nice. should average out in the end.



Pretty encouraging stuff especially when coming from non gaming resources which is critical for the casual market. It is actually pretty positive even from the gaming circles and I am little suprised by that.

 

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Kinect as seen by PS3 owners ...if you can pick at it   ...post it ... Did I mention the 360 was black and Shinny? Keeping Sigs obscure since 2007, Passed by the Sig police 5July10.

Wow what do you know? Print magazines and sites that appeal to the target consumer of families and "casuals" are rating it better then "Hardcore" sites. How so unexcpected >.>



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