GOS Writes: "The gaming industry is close to seeing the releases of the Playstation Move and Microsoft Kinect. It will be an interesting battle this holiday season, as both companies debut their new motion controllers. There have been plenty of comparisons and information out there consumers can use to pick which one is right for their needs. How will this play out for Sony and Microsoft? The following article I will go into both motion controllers and why I believe that both companies,especially Microsoft, need to ask themselves one simple thing; is breaking into the casual market really worth it?"
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars debuted in 2011, and later updated for modern consoles. However, it's the PlayStation 3 edition that stands out.
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.
This guy doesn’t like natal and likes the move, he thinks the move killer app game will be the Sorcery game next year, i think if there is one game that has motion control to really look forward to is Sorcery but Is still too early to call it a killer app, like I said ill wait till next year to decide whether to buy it or not that goes for both natal and move…
Personally, I don't think Kinect or Move will do well in the near future, maybe later after their releases but, definitely not now. Both are going after the "Wii crowd" but with a hardcore gamers price tag. Thankfully for those interested, you could have pre-ordered Kinect yesterday for a lower price ($90) but no casual gamers knew about that unless they troll around for sales on the internet in the middle of the night. I don't think the Move offered that same deal though.
It is possible that Move and Kinect may recruit some casuals into the hardcore group but its not likely, for Microsoft at least. I do applaud Sony for going for both crowds but I don't think many casuals will go for it since it appears to be just a motion controller for hardcore games. I don't really plan on buying either one (when they are released at least). Secondly, just in my opinion, Kinect would do better if they lowered the price and Microsoft made sure it wouldn't break after a week of turning it on.
Is breaking into the casual market worth it?
I dont' know, it depends if your company likes money.
casuals BUY games, the "hardcore" buys cod and rents/pirates everything else. who can blame companies for going where the money is. you may have bought a ps360 but your $5 rental of bayonetta really doesn't help anyone, does it?
Nintendo and Microsoft don't go after casuals. They go after non gamers who are to naive to understand what junk they are buying. These no challenge simple minded Fisher Price like games are garbage. Tell me something. Were TMNT games casual or hardcore? What about Mega man? Sonic? Sly Cooper? Contra? SMB 3? They were neither. There was no casual or hardcore until Nintendo said there was and drew a line. Everyone played these games. And now Microsoft is doing the same nonsense as Nintendo did. And once again Sony is the one who caters to all instead of abandoning everyone for the idiots who buy this low quality trash. Do me a favour.I play games that might be considered 'casual' in 'hardcore' gamers eyes, so don't lump me together with the morons who buy this junk because I wouldn't touch it . Call them non gamers or gullible gamers or something because the word 'casual' is starting to sound like more like the word stupid everyday.