If you're one of many Xbox 360 gamers who asked Santa for a Kinect this Christmas, you've probably exhausted the peripheral's line up of sports and dancing games.
You're probably looking for a few reasons to keep the camera set up in the living room. We'll we've got a few, in fact we've got 11 reasons for you to get off the count and waving your arms around with Kinect this year.
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.
Jack writes: "First released in September 2011, SEGA’s Rise of Nightmares was made especially for Kinect on Xbox 360. Among the range of games available for the peripheral, it is the least likely title ever made for the Kinect - there’s no dancing, no pets, no sports. (Though by its end, hacking through hordes of re-animated corpses here starts to feel like a sport.)"
rise of nightmares would make a good VR game. Surprised Sega didnt try and remaster it for PSVR. Or... maybe they are working on doing that for PSVR2????
More like 12 reasons to not Kinect.
The only game that looks somewhat interesting to me is that rise of nightmares one. Reminds me of house of the dead. Haven't really seen anything else though for me but I can see how other people may be interested in some of that other stuff. After all even if it doesn't appeal to me, MS must be doing something right because it's sold phenomenally well and better than most have expected I'd say.
Good article but it's still not enough to make me want one. Forza is the best game on that list and if im going to pay 150 dollars for a controller to play it with it'll be on a wheel. Im sure that would be the best way to play it.
As a side note to the angry internet croud. You guys seem to be filled with so much hate. I just don't understand why all of you are so angry... I hope whatever it is that has made you this way you can overcome it. Living with hate is not living at all my friends.
Child Of Eden was a huge reason I got my Kinect, cant wait to try it out. Gunstringer and Forza 4 are going to be sick as well.
The Sega Horror game as well as project Draco definitely have me interested but I need to see more on those first.
What we really need today is an article that is like Kinect vs KillZone3. That would really stir up some bitterness.
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