Fifty over at COG looks to work up a sweat from this new and exclusive Xbox One fitness feature. Click on thru for his thoughts.
"Lost amongst all of the hype around the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One is perhaps one of what I think is the most “next-gen” ideas I’ve seen on either of the two shiny consoles. It’s called Xbox Fitness and it’s “free” for the low, low price of being an Xbox Live Gold member. Fitness is one of two genres that stand out to me as being tailor made for the Kinect (the other being dance games). Xbox Fitness streams a variety of video workouts and tracks your actions with the new Kinect hardware. The result is impressive but not without its shortcomings."
Stevivor -- "Finishing up our recent conversation with Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, we put him through a lightning round-style series of questions we affectionately dubbed, 'What would it take?'"
Most likely another lie like when they said xbox one cant work without kinect. That they cant reverse drm policies. That xbox one exclusives wont be on pc and other lies. Probably its just a ruse to encroach on gamers freedom to own their games and a way to start to slowly implement drm again
It would be really cool If they could get it to work offline. It worked really well with kinect v2 and my friends and I enjoyed doing many of the workout routines.
You'd think MS would throw some money to these license holders so they could keep this game going, they've plenty money, so why didn't they? Might have been a simple business decision that it wasn't making enough money for them, nah, can't be, MS isn't like that, they are consumer friendly and not all about the money!
Nicholas Simonovski and Andy Gray, both of Stevivor -- "I can say with 100% certainty now that I will not be going digital anytime soon. The reason for me no longer considering digital game purchases is the decision Microsoft made last week concerning Xbox Fitness. For those who didn’t see it, Microsoft announced that it would be ceasing support for the application. On June 27th they removed it from the Xbox Store, not a huge deal as those who have purchased games in the past were still able to play them if they were de-listed."
Stevivor -- "Xbox Fitness fans have taken to Microsoft’s Xbox Voice website in an effort to keep the app alive."
This is one reason to like MS, they give users a voice and they actually listen to their customers. If they see people want a service they can keep it going or add it in. That's why we got BC and background music. Maybe they can release it as a download/retail disc?
Im sorry but all these tv workouts are for fitness posers, wit the gym man
I've been doing insanity. Much better than a gym membership imho.
I'm too lazy for this, had a fitness game on 360 but barely used it.
strongly disagree with this score, it only has 1 video of each of insanity and p90x. I was under the impression the entire set would be available.
what the. i tried insanity on the xbox fitness, the sensor does not even log me as working out for alot of the exercises...