Kinect Warning Screens Suggest You ‘Take a Break’

Just as Nintendo’s Wii software before it, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect software is obviously very conscious of its family-friendly image. While titles like Wii Sports and Wii Fit offer the suggestion that the player might want to rest for a while after an extended play session, it appears that the likes of Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures present the option to rest as early as a few minutes after beginning play.

[theonlylolking]

Just like the wii games like wii sports or wii party.

[King-Leonidas]

------------------------------ ----------------------------

TROLLING FAILZ

[VINNIEPAZ]

"Wow, that sounds like an excuse to stop playing it so it doesn't overheat."

My god you PS3 trolls are pathetic. I swear not one Xbox article can get past 2 comments without you lame fanboys saying some stupid shit.

[tacosRcool]

You should see some of the PS3 articles and see what goes on in there. At least people don't report them as trolling as you guys do

On another note I don't see why you need a break? Why take a break from some mediocre exercise?

[AAACE5]

I go into the Ps3 articles and the comments are far worse on Ps3 articles. The Ps3 articles have a few fanboys, but the fanboys who post bad comments against the 360 is far worse!

And since you guys wannt talk about heat issues... I've noticed my 250 gb Ps3 slim gets hot... really hot after about an hour of use! About as hot as the old Xbox 360's get! My 80 gb didn't get that hot, so why is this one getting hot! I have used this new one less than 100 hours.

[FordGTGuy]

Obvious Troll is Obvious

[stuna1]

It's not telling you to take a break for your sake! It's telling you to take a break for it's sake, because it's heating up and about to RDOD your xbox, lol.
@FordGTGuy: I'm just having some fun, but you keep on think ing what you want to think, while I'll continue saying what I want to say kapisch!

[FordGTGuy]

Obvious Troll is Obvious

Twice in the same thread? Jeez.......

[Coheno]

Take a kit kat!

[rlm42]

Take a break
Have a kit kat!

[Fishy Fingers]

"take a break, sit back and relax, maybe pick up a pad and play one of our decent games"

[Blaze929]

um...ALL games bare this suggestion -_-. Why/how is this new news?

[OSU_Gamer]

its not...its another chance for the fanboys to make some dumb comments...As you can see from the first comment.

[visualb]

because its kinect.

i'm not impressed by the product itself but the constant articles make very little room for avoidance...

i dno, I guess N4G loves Kinect =3

[gamingdroid]

Because Kinect is hot and every little news about it gets a lot of attention. Good or bad, you are here aren't you in this not so newsworthy article?

[lelo2play]

I have never seen so much hate articles and comments against a console addon as Kinect has been having. Why so much hate for Kinect from N4G users? If you like it, buy it... else don't buy it and go play something else. Simple as that.
Some people are just hateful against everything thats comes from Microsoft. Looks like that hate rules their lives. Sad ... sad people.

As for kinect i don't think I'll be getting it, simple because I'm not interested.... but does not mean i hate it. Same goes for PS3 Move, i don't think I'll be getting it simply because i don't think it's interesting enough.

[Pedobear Rocks]

distracts developers from good games so they can make quick cash with shovelware?

[Seijoru]

I have a lot of xbox fanboy friends who despise Kinect because its getting in the way of getting good games.

[iistuii]

Er Kinect has it's own games built for it, they are not getting in the way of nothing, if you don't like it don't buy it, simple.

[rlm42]

You should know, this is 'PS3 fap-fest land'.. umm N4G.

They're scared of what might happen.. Don't want to miss out on anything cool.

@Pedobear.. "PS fans have been there...done that...and it sucks"
Eh Correction, SONY has been there done that and they couldn't make anything of it. Now it's Microsoft's turn with more mature, more advanced technology and devs. Microsoft has the money behind it needed, yet people like YOU don't give it a chance even before launch. Pfft.

[Pedobear Rocks]

have had EyeToy for 5+ years already...Kinect is an improvement but not fundemantally different. PS fans have been there...done that...and it sucks.

@rlm42

I don't need to 'give it a chance'...it is self evident that Move , Kinect and Wii do nothing but encourage crap games to be made to get the 'family' demographic (not all Wii games...just the ones that focus on waggle).

[Dread]

funny I guess the nintendo players can say the same thing about Move..

or are you going to try and convince me that Move and the wii mote are different things?

[Pillville]

@Dread: Where's the Wii's camera again?

[FordGTGuy]

Move only uses its camera to track the balls on the remotes, Wii uses a bar sensor on your TV instead.

EyeToy cannot tell the height of players as it cannot automatically look at the floor and look back up, it also cannot follow players around a room automatically. It doesn't have depth perception or the ability to tell the difference between you and someone else. EyeToy does not use IR meaning it can only be used in proper lighting while Kinect can be used in the dark.

The technologies on both the hardware side and software side are on a completely different level than the EyeToy. I've said it before, if the EyeToy was as good as Kinect Sony wouldn't have made Move.

[Pillville]

Wrong. It does head and body tracking pretty well.

You can see from the video, it's using the glowing balls to keep track of his hands, but the rest of his body and head are all being tracked by the camera alone.

http://www.techandcover.com...

EDIT:
Not only that, the camera can add the player to the game screen (eyepet, start the party). Wii can not do that.

[gamingdroid]

Although PS Move is able to track parts of the body (as evident of the upper body only tracking), it still can't track depth. It can only track depth on the PS Move wand with the bulb on top and hence why they don't track your feet. Notice, how it can't really detect the bend in your arms either. It most likely determines that position based on how the joints are connected, that is why it is wrong sometimes in that video.

It is possible one day PS Eye can emulate Kinect, but let's face it Kinect is more than just the depth camera. The technology behind it is more than just tracking you but also making it easily accessible to developers via a proper SDK.

The genius of Kinect isn't the hardware, it is the software!

[stuna1]

You think that because microsoft is putting all this money behind kinect, that that will guarantee that it will work! If that's actually the truth the cure for cancer is long overdue!

[Pillville]

Yes, Kinect has a (barely) more advanced camera. Good for Kinect. BUT, I was replying to the comment:

"are you going to try and convince me that Move and the wii mote are different things?"

I was showing that WII and MOVE are different things.

[Scottyabanks]

I find it funny that people can disagree lelo2plays comment. Why, you ask? well, he's simply stating that, if you don't like it, don't buy it. So for you users who disagreed, are you saying that you should buy things you don't like? And if so, then I disagree with you. And if you do like buying things you don't like, then your disagreement with this comment is redundant and you fail at decision making.

Also, lelo2play, if you're commenting about how you don't like haters, then you are a hater hater. Haters gonna hate. Lol.

Oh and the only reason Kinect gets more criticism than the Move is because the Kinect keeps being advertised as being able to do things that it can't actually do. And this quite frankly, irritates people. That paired with all of the failed tech demos the Kinect had, makes it a questionable product to have concern over.

[Jerk120]

That's if I play it for that long.

[Dnied]

Their target market for kinect is ages 0 to 5 so I don't think they need to worry as their attention span is low enough.

[Malice-Flare]

its a defense against lawsuits...

[a08andan]

As long as it doesn't interrupt the game-play, I have no problems with that. I couldn't care less about messages like that then. I play for as long as I want to :) I do compensate my gaming lifestyle with going to the gym 4 times a week so I really don't think I'm in any kind of danger.

And I don't think anyone really cares about advices like that. I mean, you don't sit down for a gaming session only to be told that you have to do something else. Gaming is a lifestyle and in some games you just can't take a break due to various reasons, like being in the middle of fights with no ability to pause etc.

Keep on gaming :)

[hoops]

The hate continues.
Man the hate is going to go overload when this launhes and it sells boatloads. N4G.COM will be a riot then to look at lol

[WLPowell]

It really helps your cred on a gaming site.

[hoops]

Iam I bragging of sales? The only reason you see the massive hate for Kinect on N4G.COM is certain people KNOW its going to sell alot and thats why they hate on it. Those people (fanboys) DESPISE any other product that they do not own that sells more than the product they give reach arounds too. That's why I find this funny as hell and cant wait for Kinect to launch. N4G.com is going to be filled with plenty of cry babies. That alone is worth the wait. LOL LOL
Will I buy Kinect myself? Not a chance. There is not one single game in that lineup i would buy, play or enjoy. But I am going to love the hurt fanboys crying over sales and its success when it launches. LOL
I mention this because you know full well when this launched the hate for it will increase 20 fold. And it will be one site to witness on this site.
And you're right. Most of the games will be shovelware like the Wii titles. But thats the sort of games non gamers like. Its the demographics MS is going for with Kinect.
But look at where the hate is coming from? And it's hardcore hate. Its mostly people who do not even own an Xbox360. Thats the real funny part. They never plan on buying it or the Xbox360 but most of posts in all Kinect artilces are from the haters. Don't you find that funny as hell? I sure do. It's the 5 year old crying syndrome. LOL
BTW. This site has very little credibility to begin with.

[stuna1]

I disagree on the comment that people are hating on it because of possible sells it may garner, I think it's more so damage that kinects can possible inflict on the industry as a whole. For one fine motor skills can potentially fly out the window with this. And no gestures don't equate to accuracy! Then there's the problem with the games potentially playing themselves, a perfect example of this is the table tennis game for kinects. I know because I've played it. The biggest drawback of all kinects as we know it will do anything over 30fps because of design flaws. I just don't think microsoft is in it for the gamer, they're in it for stock shares and, money.

[AEtherbane]

...Wii sports and other Wii games do this? MS is just trying to be like Nintendo.... well kind of at least.

[CaptainMarvelQ8]

every game company does this,not just because Nintendo did it first,it is a requirement

[FordGTGuy]

Its the sounds of the on coming Sony Fanboy horde to bring in a wave of disagrees.....

[knifefight]

Ha!

[hoops]

You wait when this launches LOL
Just look at the Oprah article if thats any indication LOL

[stiggs]

You know that some out-of-shape 40 year old couch potato will have a heart attack while playing his first round of Kinect Sports and it will make national headline news. The typical B.S. lawsuits will follow...

[blackburn5]

What is hilarious is not Kinect itself, but the people that jump to it's defense. They have convinced themselves that N4G is the only place where people are negative about Kinect. I have been on dozens of sites where people talk about the non functionality of Kinect and the diasappointment of the line up of games all the time. It's not just us. Also they believe that all people dissing Kinect are automatically PS3 fanboys. What they don't realise is there are many 360 people who are pissed off at Microsoft's choice to fill their first party line up with Kinect shovelware and are not as excited as some of you are. Finally they have also come up with the idea that we PS3 owners are jealous of Kinect and would love to play it as opposed to our upcoming line up of games or that GT5 was moved because of Kinect. And all this while trolling Move articles telling us it will fail. So my point is Kinect isn't funny, it's delusional fans are.Listening to you people boast about how the shovelware will sell is priceless.

[stuna1]

That it exactly! I guess they also think that if you disagree on their views kinects and, xbox360 related when they give you a disagree or debubble you, that you will go into a dark corner and cry or something! I've played it and it's not all microsoft is making it out to be, for those who want it get it! But it also shows how easily some are to please.

[0oAngeluso0]

Just curious as to why were getting all these obvious stories. It's like if there were a line in the Kinect manual telling you to remember to blink your eyes, people would jump on it and say "See, see, Kinect sucks!" I mean ya, take a break. No matter if it's Motion controlled or not. It's not a good idea to game nonstop.

[btk]

With MGS 4 loading screens they also suggested to take a break - while Snake takes a smoke...

[Paralex]

This is why the PS Move is better. It doesn't give you all this warning crap, plus it has Sports Champions. PS Move > Kinect. PS Move is like Jesus and the Kinect is like a Mercedes Benz. They don't compare.