Kinect - Words can not describe the fail

AstroManLuca

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Nintendo actually intended for it to be a portable system. Of course the fact that it wasn't very portable was the least of its problems.

I just think MS (and Sony too) are going to have trouble getting anywhere with expensive peripherals released later in their consoles' lives. Back when the rumor was that Kinect would cost under $100, a lot of people seemed somewhat interested if only because of the low price. But you look at what the actual prices will be and I don't think many people will decide it's worth it. They're trying to make money on the devices themselves rather than trying to get them into as many living rooms as possible, and I don't think it'll work. Then again, I don't think selling Kinect for half the price would work either.
 

BoberFett

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This thing is going to be a flop. I hope it's a massive failure, because clearly this thing was pushed out at the behest of clueless marketing drones and nobody with any sense of what games should be had any input. I predict huge interface problems and that it will get confused constantly in real-world living rooms, making it almost unusable for anything other than tech demos.
 

Kabob

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Sep 5, 2004
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Wow, so that means that what, 85% of what they showed on their original Natal promo video is wrong, almost everyone in the vid was sitting.
 

onlyCOpunk

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The Kinect looks about as much fun as playing Wii Sports, which meansit will be entertaining for about 10 minutes, then boring.
 

bunnyfubbles

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Sep 3, 2001
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Doesn't matter if its fail for this generation, they have to jump into the motion control waters some time.

Better to try and fail now instead of waiting to start with the next generation where a failure there could mean a failed console entirely.
 

smackababy

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I can't wait until this sells millions of units and all you cry about how console gaming is dying and sound just like the PC gamers.
 

Phobic9

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Meh. I'm not too thrilled about Kinect or PS Move but it'll be interesting to see which will "suck" less. :)
 

ciproxr

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hey man if apple can sell a couple million ipads im sure microsoft will do just fine.
 

Tsavo

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I predict a surge in acute coronary distress amongst young fat gamers.