For future titles, I’m betting that Kinect will offer a gun or other pointing device to nail down accuracy for FPS/or arcade rail shooters. There’s also the question of accuracy improvements once the higher resolution is unlocked. Bottom line is, you can always add a pointer to Kinect, but you can never take it away from Wii/Move.

Voice commands can be added to games! Think of Madden or NBA2k having the ability to call out plays with your voice while your playing. Imagine calling out audibles with your voice!

Who says that MS won’t release a controller that works with the Kinect. MS never said a motion controller was out of the question. Imagine playing Tiger Woods with the controller and your body and controller are used for precesion.

A company has already claimed they have the software to eliminate the lag in Kinect games. They will license the software to companies!

The false things in your statement are: Xbox 360 sucks(this is called an opinion), No exclusive games(straight up not true, you may not want to play them, but they exist), last-gen graphics(um… no? Halo, Gears of War, Mass Effect(which all happen to be exclusives, except for ME2(now))), no dedicated servers(are you talking about for multiplayer matches? because that’s normally decided by the developer, like for Gears of War 3), overpriced online mode(lol it’s like what 8 bucks a month now? and comes with tons of things) Kinect will flop(just by the sheer amount of hype around it, it will certainly not be flopping any time soon).

Eat the tastiness, troll ;).

Plus, and this is a huge plus here, Move is not just about motion gaming – far from it. Have you tried it with RUSE? It’s, hands-down, the best control scheme for a traditional-RTS style game on console. Or there’s the puzzle game Tumble, or Flight Control HD (for a light bit of fun, of course – it’s clearly not the deepest game of all time).

I’ve spent about 70 hours with Move+RUSE, and 5 or so with Move+Sports Champions – if you’re only looking at it as a Wii Clone, you’re really missing out (and perhaps not keeping your mind as open to all gaming opportunities as you could be ;)). You can play MAG, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition and Heavy Rain with Move as well (although I personally prefer a Dualshock). That’s not to say Move doesn’t work well with Sports Champions or Start the Party (the only Move motion games I’ve got) – indeed, Start the Party is very clearly mimicking your movements 1-to-1, as it all shows up on the screen ;). Which Move games did you play? If you fell for something like Kung Fu Rider or Racquet Sports, that’d explain your impression, but if you read the reviews about what worked you’d probably have been better served.

As for Kinect, at launch it’s clearly a purely motion-based gamin experience, so your concerns here are valid, but Microsoft have announced Steel Battalion for it. It’s one I’d wait on reviews before trying (as I think Kinect is inherently less flexible than Move from a gameplay perspective – it’ll be awesome for some motion games, but I doubt you’d ever be able to play RUSE or MAG with it, for example), and so it makes sense not to get at launch if motion gaming isn’t your thing, but it could come good for you over the long-term :).

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people say that this can be done with just the eyetoy. if it could then it would be, the fact that it can’t, well speaks for itself. kinetic is a tpye of energy right? and kinect is just a made up word that MS uses, and its supposed to mean kinect with your games.

does the eyetoy say let you turn your ps3 on and off? does it allow for you to control it with voice commands? does it have a depth sensor? does it map at least 13 reference points on the body?

sure you could map your face in tiger woods, but with kinect its supposed to be intergrated into the system but still optional unlike the vision cam which was just optional. plus they’re not abandoning the controller. it will be used in conjunction with kinect.

oh one last thing. the ps move does not play blu-ray movies does not have hd graphics and all that other fud sony say’s. it’s just a way to control the games…..lmao

With that said the poster who said we need games that are more CHALLENGING hit the nail on the head. If studios can do that then this will be out of the park. If not it will still be a great FAMILY device, which until the wii came out was a huge untapped market.

Press buttons in a certain combination, get rewarded. Miss the correct combination and be penalized.

Doesn’t matter whether it is ‘Hello Kitty’ or ‘Kill All Zombies Now (Rated M)’ or ‘Madden Football 2020′, *you* are still doing the exact same thing. Still feel like shelling out another $80? Feel a little like a test lab rodent: Press here to get your reward.

Ok, now start your rants about story line etc, but it doesn’t take away the fact that the basic game mechanics are all exactly the same no matter what ‘story’ you put with it.

Yes I know the same argument could be made against books, but the medium of your mind is not as constrained as pre-canned graphics made up by someone else so at least in my opinion there is an important qualitative difference…

So, perhaps some new method of interaction is required to keep games from becoming totally boring…

I’ve seen what the technology can do though, and I think Kinect is a result of an inevitable need to change something fundamental with game mechanics. I do want Kinect games that are as complex as games for more traditional controllers. And I feel there has been a desire in the industry for a long time to do something different, and now Kinect allows them to do that. One of the key thins is that Kinect is pretty affordable compared to earlier experiments with full motion controllers, which now can lead to the more experimentation with gaming software.

The thing is Kinect to some extent can do what Wii and Move can do, but it can also do things that are impossible to do with Wii ad Move. But people have to be prepared to try something new, and software developers have to take bigger risks. There’s a lot of interest from developers in developing for Kinect, even studios who would never spend their time on other motion controller and usually focus on core gamers have decided to develop for the technology, and a lot of people seem to take a genuine interest in the Kinect, and not because Microsoft has bought out the whole industry.

I honestly think multi platform development is a waste of time in many cases. I think the console war is just slowing down games development rather than encouaraging experimentation. Ideally I think the style of gameplay in a game should be focused around what controller you use. Create three different playing styles on one console rather than having to swich between consoles to try out a new angle. I think in the perfect gaming world, Wii motion plus would be available for XBox and Kinect would be available for the Wii and Playstation 3. Because in the perfect gaming world the focus is not on the greater good for gaming, not labels

I’m not putting down console gaming at all, but I think most real hardcore gamers that do both PC and console understand the huge difference in dynamics between the two platforms that I speak of.

I also have been gaming for a long time. Started with an Atari 400 and playing Hectic on a Commodore 64. That pre-dates a lot of Slashgears readers LIVES. (try very early 1980′s). Since then, I’ve owned every North American Nintendo product release minus the DS. Every Playstation, and every XBOX. I’ve also owned and gamed on a PC starting with the Commodore 64, graduating to a Packard Bell 386, etc.

If you need more credentials, I loved gaming so freaking much, spent 150,000.000 in 2005 to open my own LAN center with 25 PC’s and 18 various consoles. (closed in 2008).

That all being said, I AM buying the Kinect. Why? First, I don’t see it as a new gaming peripheral. I firmly believe Kinect is the pre-alpha to a whole new generation of user computer interaction, and I want to get in on the experience. Second, I’m now a father of a 18 month old, and there are very few technologies that appeal to adults and babies alike. iPad is one, Kinect is another.

Proof is right here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaIMOz2a5TU

I kinda agreee with the author, but I don’t think its motion controllers which are at fault.

As a gamer I want CHALLENGING games. Games that use motion controlls are often ‘casual games’ (waggle this, shake that, pet your dog?)

Give me a game that uses motion controlls and is challenging and ill give it a shot.

One example is Metroid other M, I hated it the first time I played it but once I unlocked Hard Mode I loved it!