Comments on: Should Kinect Play A Role In the Xbox 720?

By: ScrewBot

ScrewBot — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:43:00 +0000

It’s likely that “Kinect 2″ for the 720 will have such enhanced features that the original Kinect and Kinect games will become instantly obsolete.

By: Barry F. Keaveney

Barry F. Keaveney — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:51:00 +0000

Vaporware. Why don’t you write about living on Mars.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:24:00 +0000

Ninten modified the cord to prevent the Wiimote from breaking free. Plus, I’ve never had it slip at all although I always use the Wiimote cover.

By: eYeKey416

eYeKey416 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:42:00 +0000

no steven, the Wii isn’t good enough. It’s not HD, and I’m afraid that the controller will smash my 61″ screen.

By: Noone

Noone — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:52:00 +0000

The next generation Kinect will be / should be from Canesta (the company Microsoft bought) and that will have a higher resulution and be able to track more people at the same time.

By: Noone

Noone — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:52:00 +0000

The next generation Kinect will be / should be from Canesta (the company Microsoft bought) and that will have a higher resulution and be able to track more people at the same time.

By: Noone

Noone — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:52:00 +0000

The next generation Kinect will be / should be from Canesta (the company Microsoft bought) and that will have a higher resulution and be able to track more people at the same time.

By: gest

gest — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:55:00 +0000

no kinect!!

By: gest

gest — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:55:00 +0000

no kinect!!

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:08:00 +0000

Why do you have to play games on the 360 or PS3? Isn’t the Wii good enough? MS will probably devout resources to making Halo 4 compatible with Kinect now.

By: Interesting

Interesting — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:49:00 +0000

The real question is; will it be a part of the 720 bundle & included in the price or even integrated into the 720?as a non removable option

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:51:00 +0000

we’ll see kinect compatibility with the xbox 720 for sure. that would make the most sense, since that would allow hardcore gamers to continue their style of playing, while casual gamers could still always buy the kinect as an addon or buy the kinect-and-console bundle.
i dont care much for kinect, but if they do integrate it into the new console, i wouldn’t really care..
as long as they still focus PRIMARILY on improving important things such as RAM and processing power, sure.. throw the kinect in there. idc

By: Andrew Rolls

Andrew Rolls — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:26:00 +0000

why not do what xbox 360 does and have models with or without Kinect?

By: shabaz

shabaz — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:34:00 +0000

I read the article. I read it again after reading your comment. I then pressed CTRL+F and typed “add-on”, “built-in” and ”dropped”, all seperatly and without quotes of course. Those words do not appear in the article. Please try it for yourself.

By: Bhendricks1462

Bhendricks1462 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:29:00 +0000

thanks you the only other person that noticed that and the people that comment really do not read properly…

By: Bhendricks1462

Bhendricks1462 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:29:00 +0000

thanks you the only other person that noticed that and the people that comment really do not read properly…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:19:00 +0000

That’s why it’s not selling.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:19:00 +0000

That’s why it’s not selling.

By: Feybj

Feybj — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:18:00 +0000

Kinect would seem to work well with a head mounted display like virtual reality. Then I could see some real potential.

By: Feybj

Feybj — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:18:00 +0000

Kinect would seem to work well with a head mounted display like virtual reality. Then I could see some real potential.

By: james braselton

james braselton — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:59:00 +0000

hi there why not give us a 32 64 or 128 gb ssf a ssd is now only $1.00 per gb or 10,000 rpm voloci-raptors or seagate momentux xt hybride ssd/hdd combo

By: james braselton

james braselton — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:59:00 +0000

hi there why not give us a 32 64 or 128 gb ssf a ssd is now only $1.00 per gb or 10,000 rpm voloci-raptors or seagate momentux xt hybride ssd/hdd combo

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:18:00 +0000

A “hardcore gamer” is an individual who doesn’t want to put out the physical energy to “be” the controller. Give me a couch and a controller please.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:24:00 +0000

Sure, why not, if you just put the damn processor into it first, and put the number 2 next to Kinect text.
Otherwise No!!! Absolutely not! It was the biggest mistake of the decade in gaming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMU8vCEet-M&feature=related
Now they have to release Kinect 2, if they want to make anything worthwhile.

By: GK15

GK15 — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Kinect sports is fun. I also like what they’re doing with ghost recon and forza, making it optional and an addition to the controller experience. Kind of like augmenting what we already have. I haven’t played child of Eden yet but I’m intrigued.

It’s also strangely satisfying to bark commands at my xbox w Netflix and make it pause/play.

Having said that, I would like to see more of an emphasis on getting xbox exclusives. Witcher 2 looks awesome (exclusive coz not on PS3) and is more than welcome but I’ll take hardcore exclusives over kinect fodder anyday.

Sent from my iPhone :P

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:56:00 +0000

A new console, called Wii U, more powerful than the PS3 is coming out in 2012 when the Wayne is supposed to overtake current gen consoles.

By: Brent Peterson

Brent Peterson — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:18:00 +0000

woooow I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, BidsNew.çom

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:17:00 +0000

I know, but doing so it ended being crippled. By saving 20-30$ its useless junk for ever, as Its lag makes it completely useless for gaming. Even kids don’t like it. “dad, it doesn’t do, what I did”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbLOFGSEDo

The virus, that I was referring to, was a little joke that based of certain Wii accusations.

By: Nospam

Nospam — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:12:00 +0000

Classic puff to drive irate readers to fill the comments box, don’t listen to the troll

By: Nospam

Nospam — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:12:00 +0000

Classic puff to drive irate readers to fill the comments box, don’t listen to the troll

By: andrewc

andrewc — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:46:00 +0000

I have a kinect I love child of Eden and the street fighting game but cod is 90 % of my xbox use then netflix hulu then kinect; kinect needs halo to come out already with its kinect options :)

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:54:00 +0000

Due out quarter 4 2011 (Kal-El) nvidia Tegra 3 at 1.5GHz = 13800 MIPS where Xbox “Xenon” Triple Core =19200 at 3.2GHz.

2011 Kal-El x 5 over Tegra 2
2012 Wayne x 10
2013 Logan x 75
2014 Stark x 100

Now remember people upgrade their phones every couple of years when they get a new contract.

Consoles are about to become obsolete!

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:54:00 +0000

Due out quarter 4 2011 (Kal-El) nvidia Tegra 3 at 1.5GHz = 13800 MIPS where Xbox “Xenon” Triple Core =19200 at 3.2GHz.

2011 Kal-El x 5 over Tegra 2
2012 Wayne x 10
2013 Logan x 75
2014 Stark x 100

Now remember people upgrade their phones every couple of years when they get a new contract.

Consoles are about to become obsolete!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:04:00 +0000

Dual core smart phones haven’t been around a year. Soon, as in not now, they will be 1.5Ghz. 360: 3 cores 3.3Ghz. All technology improvements seem to be slowing down so I’d give it 4, 5 years.
The thing I’d like most in new gaming consoles is for them to be desktops or somewhat mobile computers. A PS3 can do a lot of the stuff a desktop can. It just needs different software and it’d be full fledged. Why pay $400 for 2 devices with nearly the same hardware?

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:52:00 +0000

Why is everyone ignoring that he asked if it would be an add-on, built-in, dropped? Does everyone just skim through articles?

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:39:00 +0000

And as you are likely extremely pedantic by XBox I mean XBox 360 lol

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:32:00 +0000

Rather than hardcore gamer you might like to think of yourself as a concrete thinker who struggles with change. Of course Kinect is going to make it into the next generation of console and expect Sony to improve their Eyetoy so it surpasses Kinect.

Kinect technology is also going to make it’s way into mobile devices both phones and tablets.

How else do you expect gaming to evolve; improved graphics alone are not going to warrant a new console. Soon your mobile phone is going to be more powerful than XBox and it won’t take much of a leap in technology to be able to hookup a PS3 controller via Bluetooth to your android device and HDMI to your 55″ Samsung.

By: Kitsune Hazard

Kitsune Hazard — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:26:00 +0000

I have to agree with ya there, there is a dumbing down of games and “everyone has to be a winner” but if I recall it was the hardcore games that started that with the whole “respawn” idea that weaseled it’s way into single player campaigns. Having actually lived and played games in arcades in Japan…I can say that you’re on target there. They are insane and some are absurdly complex to learn.

As for the Kinect itself, to be honest when friends are over we use the Kinect a lot, and I do use it to play weird games like Kinect Adventures and Kinectimals which is oddly addicting for some reason. I also play Child of Eden these days which is a surreal experience with no controller at all (I’ve played it both ways and it’s a weird giddy feeling you get while not using anything but your body)

The fact that Kinect does have eye tracking, even if it is basic right, and it does have voice recognition to some extent, again basic, shows that the tech is there and maybe the next version of it will have far more sensitive bits about it. The fact that they’ve updated it to even finger movement with just software updates shows the levels of sensitivity that’s possible. Either way it’s too early to judge it. The idea of head tracking (Forza4) and better team based coordination (in single player modes) for games like Mass Effect, Gears3 and other games shows promise though, we’ll have to see what they do with it fully before weighing in on it completely.

I also love the fact that I don’t have to look for a remote at all when watching something on Netflix. Sure that’s lazy of me but voice control for that is great and I’m sure the implementation that they’re planning with bringing the search functions of Bing into the fold make it worthwhile as well. So right now the games aren’t there, true, but it could be coming.

*For the record I don’t even own an iPhone nor play many games on my smart phone. When traveling I use my DSi. I also don’t really play that many “casual” games. When on my own it’s Forza, Gears, CoD, Mass Effect, Alan Wake (when the mood strikes), MNC, Portal, etc…

By: Kitsune Hazard

Kitsune Hazard — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:26:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:03:00 +0000

amazing I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, BidsNew.com