Really, I could mount the thing in my room with the required distance, but I can't see two people moving about to play in here. My point is, it seems to m if the requirement from the camera is too much for you, then probably you wouldn't have space for two people to not constantly hit each other anyway.

And I had no idea living rooms in middle/upper-middle class USA were so small. I can see it being a problem in Japan of course, but other than that two and a half meters is pretty modest. I remember Tv manufacturers used to tell people to be at least that far from their tvs to avoid eye damage or something. Or maybe that was just our parents bitching.

Anyway, I think if Microsoft wants the expanded audience it's kind of supposed that most of these new market sales would go to living rooms, not small gaming cubicles. But of course old 360 owners, the ones playing in those cubicles, are the ones more aware of Kinect, so I guess this number would naturally be inflated.

space is a big problem for kinect and id say some people that have already bought it cant even use it... i could get it but that would mean moving the tv into my kitchen and thats not a very safe place to be jumping around

I have enough space in my living room if I remove a lot of stuff. It's not just space but open space with nothing between you and Kinect. Like someone mention even two players  trying to play  table tennis with Move requires a lot of space so you don't have to worry about running into each other and other objects. Even with Move/PSeye you really need to be 8 feet from the camera to have some space between the players.

Wow such an awful post.....congratulations

thats why i havent purchased it yet. Though i thought the title was speaking in terms of hard drive space LOL.

Hmm...site newbies don't understand a joke.

I wonder why nobody complains about PS Move's space requirements then.

Sure, PS Move recommends a distance of 2m or more as well, but it's really just a recommendation and works just fine even if the distance is much shorter. I tried Move in a friend's house in which the couch is just about 1m from the TV and I did not experience any problems. In the case of Kinect however, the 2/2.5m distance is pretty much a minimum distance.

The difference between the two systems is is: The Kinect sensor really needs to see your whole body from head to feet, while for PS Move it's sufficient that the PS Eye sees the torso. And that means the minimum distance is only about half as long.

I never actually realized how big of a problem this is. I have more than 12 feet radius where I game, not that it matters as I am not buying the Kinect anyways.

It doesn't need to be good. Motion control is just annoying.

a joke is a joke, no matter if its bad or not.