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Gizmodo similarly states:





And Gizmodo opines:




Ars Technica writes:







give away 3.3 million Kinect units.


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RE: Meh
By sprockkets on 11/4/2010 7:12:29 PM , Rating: 1
so how do you turn left or right without straining yourself to keep looking at the screen?

It isn't a lack of imagination that prevents this from working. For that matter, if they haven't figured out how to do it in the 2 years it was introduced, why would I expect it to happen now?

This is a unfinished product, rough in all the edges. If Microsoft wanted this to succeed, it needed to be finished upon release.

RE: Meh
By Akrovah on 11/4/2010 7:17:56 PM , Rating: 2
Well I think they got rushed by Sony's much easier to implement system. With the release of Move MS became the only console maker to not have motion control.

RE: Meh
By superPC on 11/5/2010 3:01:42 AM , Rating: 2
kinect track your whole body. for movement maybe a game can use gestures such as leaning forward, backwards, left or right to move forward, backwards, left or right. to turn maybe turned your torso or your shoulder (while still looking at the screen, it's easy enough to do and not in anyway straining) at the direction you want to turn. it might take a while to find the right gesture that work but it's not impossible.

RE: Meh
By Da W on 11/5/2010 9:01:28 AM , Rating: 1
Kinnect is a wonderful piece of technology produced at a cheap price. I'm sure it will have many applications down the road, even for the PC.

But a good gaming device, it is not. You need at least a joystick in your hand for 90% of games types. It leaves dancing, fighting, may be a hybrid dancing/rock band game and that kind of stuff, but forget starwars games slashing your lighsaber on kinnect. Go get the original force unleashed on the Wii for that.

RE: Meh
By Smilin on 11/5/2010 2:36:14 PM , Rating: 5
Why do you keep thinking this thing is a keyboard and mouse intended for FPS games?

I mean really how do you dogfight effectively without a joystick? You don't. Does that mean there is something wrong with your gamepad/mouse? Does it mean the gamepad/mouse is a defective unfinished product?

You can't just come up with the stupidest possible use for the thing then blame it when it doesn't do that. You don't like Kinect (even though you've never played one)..we get it.

But...If you think Kinect won't succeed then you're a fool. Plain and simple. Gartner was predecting some 3million units in the first quarter. It's looking more like 5million units before christmas. That's 5million units plus whatever percentage are also buying a console plus 2-4 games each.

RE: Meh
By JKflipflop98 on 11/7/2010 7:55:40 AM , Rating: 4
"I can't think of it, so it's impossible!"

You can stick out two fingers on your left hand and point in the direction you want to go.

You can use the ol' hokey pokey approach and make it so the farther you put your right foot in, the faster you walk, you take your right foot all the way out and go backwards.

You can *gasp* use a controller at the same time!

You can use exaggerated head tracking (just like a TrackIR system) for looking and aiming.

You can "grab" the ground and pull yourself all over the map in games like B&W or StarCraft.

There's a million different ways to skin a cat. Just because you have the creativity of a brick doesn't mean that's the way things are.

