I've had kinect for at least two days now, and I'm having a blast. After coming home around 1 a.m., I set up kinect (and it was pretty easy too), and i went to sleep. When I woke up, i invited my neighbor over to play(he was pretty skeptical, though).
So the first game we decided to play was dance central, and it was pretty fun, but I did have to move the furniture around as we kept bumping into stuff. Next up we played kinect adventures. Rafting was pretty fun, and we played around with the mini games. After us horsing around, I decided to share the pictures kinect took, and it was easy as pressing that "easy" button.
My neighbor left soon, and i decided to try kinectimals, and while it was fun, it didn't offer much to my disappointment, but still, i had fun playing around with my pet tiger "suda51".
Browsing the dashboard was easy and quick, and kinect was responsive to my commands. I had a video conversation with a friend of mine, and whenever i moved, it would follow me.
Now the only problems I had were avoidable. Kinect went nuts when my mini heater was on, and I when I put it away is when kinect stop panning in and out. And while I was watching a movie using zune, my neighbor yelled "xbox, turn off!". As expected, my xbox turned off, and after shutting my windows was I able to watch the movie in peace(zune thankfully saves where i left off).
Overall, kinect is a great peripheral that any 360 owner should buy, and anyone planning to buy an xbox should buy.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
For a moment a decade ago, the game industry looked like a very different place.
I was never bought into Kinect. Never wanted one even if it did break sells records 10 years ago. Interesting concept but failure at the end. Glad its dead and gone.
Microsoft's misunderstood audio-visual peripheral was, at one point, the fastest-selling consumer electronics device of all time, believe it or not, with over 10 million units sold during the first six months after its release. Of course, that was the Xbox 360 version, which was vastly inferior to the "V2" version available on the Xbox One and Windows PCs.
Despite the superior power of Kinect V2, a combination of poor messaging, bad positioning, and lackluster software support led Kinect V2 as an Xbox accessory down the path of obscurity, right into being killed off completely.
Hell no, only way it's fine is if you're still using a launch model, otherwise be prepared to shell out $50+ on an adapter just to be able to yell at your xbox to turn on. Only reason i could see for buying one is if you're trying to get started as a streamer, even then streaming through a PC is a better choice if you got it.
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MIcrosoft killed the kinect so obviously its not worth it unless you like wasting your money. I think Microsoft did the right thing by ending kinect support because kinect games were trash
There is a dozen or so kid games on the 360 that my kids love, but not worth it on x1. We have about all of the 360 Kinect games and there is some short times of fun in almost all of them. But I can’t even buy all of the x1 Kinect games because they rarely go on sale. If they were $5-10 I would try them all with the kids.
It was a great product just for the camera and voice stuff ..too bad they pretty much murdered it
I'd like to sell mine to New Jersey airport, but I don't think the logistical price is worth paying for the meager amount I'd obtain from such a thing.
I get the urge to play fantasia now and again, but not enough to shell out on an adaptor
After reading the review and being a fan of Kinect I thought that game would be a classic for me. But it just didn’t work well with me, not sure if it was my lack of rhythm or what. I do need to give it another shot though.
good review
you Pro browsing the dashboard...
Well you actually can't browse the dashboard with Kinect.
I sense a slight bit of fanboyism towards Kinect But its an OK review and Kinect is not as bad as they make it out to be on this site..