this

casual only.

looks like Rol is on a Roll in this thread. he's getting quoted by everyone.

well kinect ti suppose to scan real world items which sounds dangerous to me. imagine scanning a real sword in for the new fable game.

since it hasn't been used yet and likely won't see much support either we'll never know or tome will tell?

i really doubt it could recognize a real sword, and a broom and notice the difference.

im going with we'll never know, it was a hyped feature and ive heard little since the release from anyone. That tells me, at least i think, the feature as it is now, probably is not worth a damn. I actually like the Kinect i just understand the limitations and accept it, i have no problems playing stuff like Kinect sports and what not. Those are actually fun. 

I said it years ago first after playing eyetoy and right after the Kinect announcement. You need to hold something it just doesnt feel right (to me atleast) if you dont.

When a statement is put out from ANY company, it's coming from a REPRESENTATIVE.

Peter Molyneux is the CREATIVE DIRECTOR of Microsoft Games Europe, which makes him probably one of the biggest representatives they have. Yes, it's HIM talking, but he REPRESENTS Microsoft when he says that. If you're going to try arguing that point, you're ignoring some pretty major facts.

It's been already officially put out that Kinect is only capable of recognizing basic shapes - nothing complicated. IIRC, it doesn't even see fingers - just hands in general - so it definitely wouldn't see the difference between a broomstick, a sword, and a baseball bat.

so outdated

I agree that Molineux is representing Microsoft. But he stated this as a limitation not as a problem. Every tech has limitation, and a limitation dont = problem.

""We could have done melee weapons, but the one thing I hate about melee weapons, and guns as well, is that the human brain is encoded to expect recoil from those things."" =  Clearly a limitation and not a problem. Its not that it cant do what its meant to do.

It's a problem for people who wanted to be able to play "core" games/games from any genre on Kinect. Many fanboys have insisted since the reveal of Project Natal that anything is possible on the tech, you just have to open your mind. Yeah, sure, maybe it IS possible, but it's severely lacking and impractical for an extremely large variety of concepts and genres. That's most definitely a problem.

When you have to completely redo the way a franchise does things because you can't make it work, it's a problem.

well i'm sure we'll know more in the future.