If you’ve been following my column on SlashGear, you know that I’m a pretty serious gamer. In fact, I’d say that I’m about as hardcore as they come. Aside from the fact that I’ve been playing games for longer than I choose to remember, I have real and abiding love for everything from role-playing games to sports games. There hasn’t been a single genre that I haven’t at one time or another loved.
For Microsoft, who believe that the Xbox 360 still has plenty of years left in it, the Kinect motion-sensing peripheral that's due to release November 4th is a huge effort to get even more people involved with the console. Not wanting to just talk to hardcore gamers anymore, the peripheral is meant to bring the whole family into the living room, and sit around a nice game of Kinectimals. According to the New York Times, it cost Microsoft quite a pretty penny to get the first working prototype of the Kinect unit up and running.
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Now that we know the 17 Kinect-capable titles heading to the controller-free peripheral in 2010, and we know just how to set up our living rooms to get the best playing experience, it's time that we finally get our eyes on an official TV advertisement from Microsoft. While there's been other commercials out there, apparently they weren't the "official" kind. But, Microsoft has finally unveiled the first official TV ad for Kinect, showcasing the human side of it.
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Microsoft has announced the launch portfolio for Kinect, listing the seventeen titles which will be available at the motion-controller's launch. The games - the full list of which you can see after the cut - represent the first wave of controller-free titles, and include Kinectimals, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Fighters Uncaged.
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Microsoft is preparing more Xbox 360 Kinect units than it has readied hardware for any other Xbox launch, though UK pr-eorders have already seen retailers' stock sold out. A company spokesperson told MCV that Microsoft is "working hard" to make sure the three week period in November - when the motion-gaming system will launch across all of the markets Xbox 360 is active in - meets the "exceptional" demand.
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There's no doubt that setting up to play Microsoft's upcoming motion sensing peripheral, Kinect, will be interesting. Microsoft has released a video that showcases the Kinect development team going over what they believe is the optimal setting and layout for you to truly experience, and enjoy your time with Kinect. And who better to get the information from then those who developed the system, right?
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Hopefully everyone had a good weekend, and took advantage of the "International Observe the Moon Night" "And Talk Like a Pirate Day." If not, there's always next year. In any event, here we are at a Monday, getting ready to call it a night, so it's that time for The Daily Slash. Tonight, in our story from around the web, we'll get another nugget of joy from one Kudo Tsunoda, and then we'll wrap up what's been going on in the R3 Media Network today.
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When a company is launching a new product, especially a major one that they hope will be a smash hit, it's perfectly normal to see employees --especially the higher-ups-- start talking up sales, figures, and expectations. Sure, you can see exceptions to the rules some times, like when Sony Computer Entertainment's Vice President said that Move wouldn't have huge day ones sales (which, for the record, is today), it's usually more like what Kudo Tsunoda said in a recent interview with Gamasutra.
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Microsoft has announced five new, exclusive games for Xbox 360 that will work with the console's upcoming Kinect motion gaming system. The titles - “Steel Battalion Heavy Armor” (Capcom), “Rise of Nightmares” (SEGA), “codename D” (Grasshopper Manufacture), “Haunt” (NanaOn-Sha) and “Project Draco” (Grounding) - all debuted at the Tokyo Game Show 2010; they're expected to arrive sometime in 2011.
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Microsoft's special edition Xbox 360 250GB Kinect package has been given the official nod, with the company promising to deliver the bundle - that pairs the larger-capacity 360 console and their motion-gaming add-on - on November 4th 2010. Priced at $399.99, the Xbox 360 250GB with Kinect box will also include a copy of "Kinect Adventures".
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Microsoft's motion-sensing peripheral, Kinect, is one of two major peripheral releases coming from two major companies in the video game industry. However, unlike its main competition (in the sense that they are releasing roughly at the same time), Microsoft's version doesn't use a controller that you hold in your hand to represent actions on the screen. No, in Microsoft's case, you are the controller. And since that became known, there's been plenty of people wondering several different things: can you play it sitting down? And, probably the loudest to date: how many players can play at the same time?
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A Lenovo spin-off team has apparently been working on a Microsoft Kinect competitor, planning to release the so-called Ebox in China as a motion-gaming rival to the Xbox 360. According to China Daily, the new firm - Beijing eedoo Technology Ltd - is targeting casual gamers with their camera-based system; the hardware is expected to be priced higher than the Wii but, according to eedoo president Jack Luo, "may be slightly lower than Microsoft's Xbox, which retails for $299.99."
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