gamrReview: "Ultimately... it becomes too derivative, and falls short of the best that Kinect has to offer families and children this holiday."
Jack writes: "Picture the scene: it’s November 2011, you’re the parent of young children (or the partner of someone with low expectations) and are being nagged constantly about a holiday to Disneyland. You balk at the price tag, distance to travel and the general sense of unease in filling the pockets of one of the world’s most amoral and ultra-capitalist conglomerates. Fortunately, there is a cheap, easy and guilt-free alternative to visiting any Disney property. One that recreated the experience to such a degree that, for the most part, it still holds up a decade later. It is the game Kinect Disneyland Adventures."
While the Xbox hasn’t traditionally been targeted to younger children, its popularity has made it a centerpiece for most home theater systems. Because of that the little rug rats often want to play with the toy.
Here is our Top 5 Xbox 360 Games For small kids.
A good list and the games included are not something I'd consider expensive. Anyone else have better suggestions for Xbox 360 games for kids?
are they for you or your kids? trustme kids really love this games and try kinect party its fun for the whole family and best of all its free from xbox live subscribers.
For the kids but I don't mind enjoying them too. Thanks for the tip. I just might give it a go.
Black Ops II. Lol sorry, kidding, kidding...
Lego Harry Potter is actually pretty fun. Although the freaking collectibles are crazy... There are way too many, and being a perfectionist hurts with a game like that.
Yeah LEGO games in general are good choices. Having a blast also with Nintendo's latest LEGO exclusive.
It's just too bad that most good games for kids are for PS3 or Nintendo and not for Xbox 360.
Nintendo, but not so much ps3. Bout equal with xbox for kids games. Heck xbox and ps3 have like several hundred games for kids as it is. No way you'd ever play them all anyways.
Kinect does do well on kids games, hardcore...well no. So actually with Kinect Id say 360 holds the advantage for kids games over ps3. But meh w/e.
He is talking very young kids, 2-7. Xbox live arcade has a huge library of these game, from bubble games to fish eating other fish and yeah all the Kinect stuff where they can jump around and yell at the TV (Moms love to see kids doing this. Dads to by the way).
VGChartz Sales League writes:
"To recap, we saw that the HW sales for the last 4 months (the strong period of the year for Kinect) matched the HW sales for the first 8 months of Jan to Aug at 1.79m Kinects sold per period.
Projections for Kinect HW is 20m LTD by early 2013 and 5m for FY 2012, mind you 2012 has been the weaker of the 3 Christmas seasons Kinect has seen in terms of HW numbers.
In software, the sales didn’t keep up with the hardware trend, though games released before 2012 are still very well alive, the best beating off the top sales for games released in 2012."
It would appear so. The Kinect userbase is highly casual overall so you wouldn't expect most of them to look at reviews.
What does a man have to do to get an article approved around here??
What are the Move software sales like? Kinect games seems to not do so well critically (Dance Central excluded) but some of those games go on to sell in the millions. Is it the same with Move games? I know Sorcery tanked.
Move software sales pale in comparison. The device is starved for software(created for the device)and it's just not getting it.
Just like the myth of the Vita having few games, this will continue. What you have to realise is that, unlike Kinect, you can actually play fully fledged games with the MOVE. Ignoring hardcore games that can also be played with the Dualshock might give some people peace of mind but it won't offer you the truth.
You know, I really hope that Kinect is a HUGE success and that Microsoft push hard with Kinect on the Nextbox. I'm not so keen on Sony doing the same with the MOVE though, I prefer it to be an option and not a one way ticket to banality. I do NOT want the casuals leading the charge for the PS4 thank you very much.
@GribbleGrunger
Kinect isn't leading the charge for MS either. Last time I checked kinect is still optional and you can still play full fledged kinect games. My point is that kinect has way more titles designed for it from the ground up than move. It will probably always be part of the 360 experience just like xbox live is. The way i see it casuals won't be leading the charge for xbox. Never have never will, but Kinect is nice to have to go along with it. First one was nice, the second one will be mighty impressive. Its good business for ms to have kinect with xbox because all gamers are different.
Not all gamers want to play gears, halo or uncharted. You have to cover all bases, not just the core ones. You think sony would of sold over 120 million consoles last gen if casuals didn't buy consoles? nope. I don't think so. So MS can have all the casual games they want as long as we get some core too. That way everyone will be happy. The industry is changing and you have to adapt or get left behind. That's a lesson sony is learning late this gen. Better late than never I guess.
This just looked terrible at E3, glad to hear it wasn't that bad.
meh. While I'm sure the kids will like it, it's really not my thing.
I don't want to give my nephews and nieces ideas about actually going to Disneyland. Regardless I think this will still be a great game for some kids.