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justinian on 13 August 2013

I will take a bet with anyone that all these dropped regulations will be slowly re-introduced over the next two years.

Dont underestimate MS. When they get an idea in their heads they will see it through, even if it means playing the long game.

They will not take this back-tracking sitting down.



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DirtyP2002 on 13 August 2013
Mmmfishtacos said:
DirtyP2002 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
DarthVolod said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
DarthVolod said:

Great news here for those that don't care for Kinect I guess. Doesn't really change anything for me.

Even if they split the sku's and did a kinectless version for $399 or less, I am sticking with the bundle version.

Kinect has its uses, and I have some hope they can turn it into a thing this gen. Even if it is a complete failure it still if nothing else makes dance games much better without the need to hold a remote.

Good luck with that hope. They'll get more out of the smart glass than they did with Kinect. :)

Perhaps ... at least they will get more out of it than Sony will out of the Playstation 4 "I can't believe it's not Kinect" Camera.... I kid I kid relax you had it coming for that  : )

Smart glass may actually become a thing though with them finally attempting to put it into games in a meaningful way ... at least with Deadrising 3 if nothing else. It could just end up being something they try at launch and abandon though.

 


Sonys already gotten more out of the move/eyetoy combo than MS has ever done with the Kinect, their biggest issue is that their support sucks terribly. The Eyetoy is the predecessor to Kinect in the gaming industry for motion gaming and Sony ruled out that the camera by itself  could not do very much except for read the body but not take it into a 3D realm and properly control the character through the world they are in. This is why after they created the Eyetoy R&D worked on the Move in 2004.

As for the Smart Glass, yeah, its seems everyones investing heavily into tablets. Nintendo has already put it in their controller, Sony has their own tablet and MS has their and is working as a third party on other brands items. Dead Rising isn't really a reliable franchise to air the amazing nature of the Smart Glass, but its a start. The franchise is ok, but nothing major. If they can use the Smart Glass or the Kinect to make the game more than it is instead of easier that will give the franchise a totally different spirit because while its a good game it can get quite repetitive.

This post got it all!

"EyeToy is the predecessor of Kinect"
"Sony stopped supporting it, because you can't do much with it"
"PS Move was in development 2 years before the Wii was released"

Reality:

Kinect outsold EyeToy 3:1.
The PS Move did not sell at all. The Userbase is less than 5 million, even though Sony advertised this as a device that would change everything.
The Wii established Motion Controls. Period. It worked out great for Big N.

You really have to give other companies credit for the things they achieved. Nintendo for establishing Motion Controls for example or Microsoft for pushing online gaming on consoles more than anyone else... Try it, it won't hurt you.

See, I'll go first: Sony did a great job to push their new formats with their consoles.


Lol, your so wrong it hurts. 


great statement and well structured arguements you have there.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

Puppyroach on 13 August 2013
justinian said:

I will take a bet with anyone that all these dropped regulations will be slowly re-introduced over the next two years.

Dont underestimate MS. When they get an idea in their heads they will see it through, even if it means playing the long game.

They will not take this back-tracking sitting down.


I will be all for it if they do :).



Serious_frusting on 13 August 2013

wow M$ really were out of touch when they were designing the xbone. All these last minute changes may come to bite them on the you know what.

If Nintendo listened to the gaming community pre Wii Launch they would probably be a handheld only company by now.



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Zkuq on 13 August 2013
walsufnir said:
Zkuq said:

This is definitely the first time someone says I'm not a core gamer. But by your definition, I see it's no wonder why publishers don't care about core gamers anymore. There's not that many of them.

I don't say my definition is the one and only but it seems to bother you to be not considered as a core-gamer. Why?

Because I'm definitely far from being a casual gamer and I've always considered myself a core gamer. Personally I think it's more about the attitude than how much money you have to spend on gaming, and even if one does have enough money for everything gaming-related he/she wants, I don't think it's necessary to get every system. You get what interests you, not everything.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 13 August 2013
DirtyP2002 said:
The way Stage is getting owned left and right in this thread is pure entertainment.


People expressing discomfort, but not proving me wrong is getting "owned"?



theprof00 on 13 August 2013

So wait...why hasn't this been officially announced?
Is this going to be part of the day1 patch as well?
What are the details?
What does "any service that does not explicitly use the kinect" mean?
What can you actually do without it?
If this is a lie, this is going to be very painful for MS. I don't see how this could possibly be true.
The OS itself explicitly uses it.



S.T.A.G.E. on 13 August 2013
justinian said:

I will take a bet with anyone that all these dropped regulations will be slowly re-introduced over the next two years.

Dont underestimate MS. When they get an idea in their heads they will see it through, even if it means playing the long game.

They will not take this back-tracking sitting down.


They are preparing to make a stand-alone standard Xbox One just incase the PS4 brutally outsells them at launch. They gave up the lie that the Xbone needs the Kinect. 



HipHopGodd on 13 August 2013

Instead of introducing the console with all the bells and whistles they've eventually gone back on why didn't MS just do a write up and test the waters to see people's reactions? This console isn't even the same thing they'd introduced us to a few months back. Heck, It's more like the XBOX One.3 or something now. They're changing the makeup of the console like Apple changes iOS updates.



S.T.A.G.E. on 13 August 2013
HipHopGodd said:
Instead of introducing the console with all the bells and whistles they've eventually gone back on why didn't MS just do a write up and test the waters to see people's reactions? This console isn't even the same thing they'd introduced us to a few months back. Heck, It's more like the XBOX One.3 or something now. They're changing the makeup of the console like Apple changes iOS updates.


Its basically like the PS4 to keep things competitive. MS knows......they know.