Wait...don't shoot! I said what I felt and thats pretty much it. Why might you ask? Good question. The Kinect is a powerful piece of hardware, but, it is also a huge failure in longevity waiting to happen if it doesn't market itself to existing gamers as a capable system of pushing core games to another level. I understand that Kinect has cameras capable of separating the user from the background in a 3D space. This is all well and good, but can the user manipulate and walk the 3D space? No. The player is confined to simplistic movement whether or not your scanned images can be replicated 3D in a placeholder space. There is no real sense of accomplishment for anyone knowing the game thought for them 80 percent through an action whilst you thought commit the other 20 percent which is pure elementary movement. This is where controls come in. We are not at the point where we will surpass controls or even true motion controllers. This might appease the masses who do not care whether the industry expands or not, but this is detrimental to relative health. I have a very good feeling that Microsoft knows deep down inside that they will have to create a controller to be able to manipulate a character in a 3D space much like Sony's Move.
Sony said it themselves, they've had the kinects techology and decided it makes no sense to launch something like that because its too simplistic and cannot move any further without a controller that controls a six axis of movement and truly uses the depth the camera scanning provides as a weapon. This is whats going to create new genres. Sony has already done with the failed Eye toy the same crap the Kinect has come out with now. Microsoft just had a more powerful camera and better marketing. Eventually Microsoft will come out with a controller. It is only a matter of time. What do you guys think? Forza 4 will not be a proper simulation without controls. Kinect will not suffice. There is no auto-pilot in a simulation leaving you just to turn an imaginary wheel.
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