Gamasutra: Motion controllers are the future, we are told, and none seem more advanced than Microsoft’s Kinect system. The launch lineup, as revealed at this year’s E3 conference, has a definite casual look to it (which is a nice way of saying it looks easy and shallow), but MS has been quick to assure us that in time the ‘core gamers’ will embrace it.
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.
Cultured Vultures: "Sadly, not all hardware is created equal, and no matter how much developers might try, some gaming hardware just fails to hit the mark. We’ve compiled a list of 10 gaming hardware fails, and boy did some fail hard."
I would label the Power Glove, Kinect, and that Tony Hawk skateboard more as hardware addons hardware failure would be like the Virtual Boy and one day Stadia.
The picture should be the 360 RROD. When I think of gaming hardware failures that's what springs to mind. Kinect and it's bundled price tag definitely hobbled the already underpowered Xbox One though for sure so I would give it a close second place.
Lol I had the Atari Jaguar, surprised its "competition" the 3DO isn't on the list too, both as "popular" as each other.
Stadia is a weird one. It hasn’t sold at all well but in terms of how it works it’s still miles ahead of Xcloud in terms of stability and performance. Xcloud is still a way behind and that needs sorting but it will be in time. Stadia for me is one of those things that will go down as a what could have been moments. With better marketing it could have been a roaring success. I still play it and it remains the best place in my opinion to play CyberPunk 2077. Only platform I have played it on without having any issues at all. The tech is great. The concept is fine. Marketing terrible. Shame really.
The Xbox One was Microsoft’s Nintendo Wii U. Undercooked, undersold and just an unholy mess. The thing is with any of these failures is to learn from them and thankfully both Nintendo and Xbox did just that to the benefit of gamers everywhere.
Xbox 360's Kinect had flopped yet Microsoft insisted on mandatory Kinect for Xbox One, driving the price up and alienating their potential customers.
the tech was pretty damn good but their focus on making it the centerpiece was not. Had they opted to keep it as a secondary or even tertiary device, it may have found new use for AR/VR.
Kinect requirement, TV focused, DRM, and $100 buried Xbone before it even stared.
I was kind of excited for the kinect. It had potential. That was until i tried it at one of their Microsoft store. The thing was so laggy and worker who was there, had no clue what he was doing. It kind of made rethink about buying an Xbox One with Kinect.
The damage to the Xbox brand was so hard that til this day they are just the last place brand in the market.
Its sad because the Xbox one version of Kinect was actually pretty solid. Not for motion games, I couldnt care less about those, but for the other features that are now commonplace in the gaming ecosystem. Things like voice control and optional motion features in games. Stuff that Sony did with the PS camera was pretty sweet and they could have done some of that stuff with Kinect.
The tech was pretty sweet when implemented right though. Who remembers the implementation in Dead Rising 3?! You could lure zombies away by saying stuff into the kinect, it was a bit hokey at first, but it actually enhanced the game significantly once you learned all the different voice commands. There was and still is nothing else like that!
The focus on TV seemed to be an issue for people, but the TV pass through had some real potential. They could have had cable companies giving the XBone out instead of cable boxes! I understood what they were trying to do, but they needed to show the games too, and thats where they lost the core gamers. Being able to jump right to a sports event or TV show with out leaving the console was actually a pretty cool thing. I spent many nights switching between NHL games or TV shows and jumping right back into my games seamlessly, just by telling Kinect to do so. It was better than people care to admit, but I loved it!
People say XBone had no games, but on launch I got Dead Rising 3, AC Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Killer Instinct, Battlefield 4, Forza 5, and Ryse. That was actually a pretty solid lineup in hindsight! Then later on it got gems like Quantum Break, Dead Rising 4, Sunset Overdrive, Gears 4 and 5, the Ori games, Rare Replay, Forza Horizon 3/4, State of Decay 2, ReCore (SUPER UNDERRATED GEM), Halo 5, Halo Wars 2, and all the great 3rd party stuff as well! I dare anyone who sat on the Xbox One to go back and give it a shot now.
It was actually a pretty great console all things considered. Yes the PS4 had better 1st party stuff, stuff that MS just couldnt top or even compete with, but there are some really great games that a lot of people missed out on that they would probably really enjoy if they actually played them. Thats why I recommend a Series S and Gamepass to a lot of people, as its a great way to get an awesome lineup pf games for super cheap!
ABOVE ALL THE LIES.
well will know in a few months time if kinect is the real deal
fans of kinect,prove to us that it is amazing and changes the way we will play games.
not going to talk about eyetoy/pseye gesture games and tracking,not going to talk about the lack of demos to show that what microsoft presented in 2009 with natal, will be possible with kinect after a year of nothing.
we are not talking about the holodec from star trek,we are talking about gaming today.TODAY.
sure they can use sounds of "boing"..."pow& amp; quot;...."ding",etc to show that you are getting a reaction from a hit or something.but with a lack of rumble feedback,something you guys bashed sixaxis for because of sony's lawsuit,something we have had for over a decade...
**is a lack of FEELING a good thing?**
also,there is talk about what it can do and what it will do.for all of microsoft's talk,they LACK the in-house developers to lead the charge in showing us what it CAN do.they CLOSED most of them.not saying they can't,but..
**is third party gaming good enough for you?wouldn't it be good to see microsoft using those billions on MAKING games and not spending it on MARKETING?**
and third,microsoft is pushing a new camera.but what they are saying is that the headset you are using,the Vision Cam we sold you,is not good enough for what we want to do.we want you to abandon it to buy this new device.voice control could have always been done using your headset.which everyone has.and gesture control,vision cam can do that too.
microsoft is telling you that you wasted your money.sort of like hd-dvd.sure we pushed it,but now,we are telling you it's not good.go download movies because the future is downloads.it's the same thing again.sorry,you wasted your money again,kinect is what we really want you to get.and don't even get me started on the multiple versions of 360 and its chipsets to become more reliable.they basically told you gain,sorry,not this one.get **THIS** one.sort of like peter m.he tells you to get his latest game.then he bashes it after release.then tells you this is the one to get....huh?
i could easily come up with ideas for what kinect could do.but this is microsoft we are talking about.they bash then add.as in sony's case of hdmi,1080p,etc.they mislead by showing one thing,then produce something inferior.and they market and hype products that aren't what they said they were.
TELL US......tell us why we should be delighted in this new direction microsoft is going into.and how we are supposed to be impressed.
We keep on hearing about "new" ways of gaming with Kinect, but all we see is copies of EyeToy games.
We keep on hearing it actually costs less than Wii or Move, but all we see is $150 + XB360 for two active players.
We keep on hearing how great the control scheme works, but all we see is the Epic Flailing videos.
pew pew pew
flail flail flail
lol lol lol