Kinect Playable at Microsoft Store
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This been posted?
http://kotaku.com/5575034/microsoft-project-milo-not-a-game-were-planning-to-bring-to-the-market
So it's confirmed that Milo was never more than a tech demo?
http://kotaku.com/5575034/microsoft-project-milo-not-a-game-were-planning-to-bring-to-the-market
So it's confirmed that Milo was never more than a tech demo?
Link --> http://www.rareminion.com/updates.html
Here is someone's impression of Kinect at Microsoft's store. He seemed to have enjoyed it and said he didn't notice much lag. He also stated kids were having a ball with it jumping and laughing hysterically.
Again, I am pretty confident Kinect will be successful. There is no bigger indication something is going to sell well if it puts smiles on peoples' faces. Of course it will be no where as successful as the Wii but successful enough to make Nintendo regret passing over the tech. Microsoft has a winner! Children and a lot of 'exergamers' are going to eat this up.
I know it's difficult for Gaffers to imagine Kinect being successful perhaps because it is difficult to put yourself in someone's shoes who is not a hardcore gamer?
Here is someone's impression of Kinect at Microsoft's store. He seemed to have enjoyed it and said he didn't notice much lag. He also stated kids were having a ball with it jumping and laughing hysterically.
Again, I am pretty confident Kinect will be successful. There is no bigger indication something is going to sell well if it puts smiles on peoples' faces. Of course it will be no where as successful as the Wii but successful enough to make Nintendo regret passing over the tech. Microsoft has a winner! Children and a lot of 'exergamers' are going to eat this up.
I know it's difficult for Gaffers to imagine Kinect being successful perhaps because it is difficult to put yourself in someone's shoes who is not a hardcore gamer?
I'm not sure if everyone around the world can view this link but that episode of Good Gamer is up on the web and has some impression from the host and developers on Kinect and Move and all sorts of other games. It runs about 27 minutes.
The host said he saw lag on Kinect demos but when he actually got to play the games he experienced none. Kinect footage is from around 5 min to 7 and Greenberg is around the 12 minute mark
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/574793
The host said he saw lag on Kinect demos but when he actually got to play the games he experienced none. Kinect footage is from around 5 min to 7 and Greenberg is around the 12 minute mark
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/574793
Maybe because MS don't want people playing an unfinished product too much and giving the intatubes too much gif material. The initial press coverage has probably done its job in MS's eyes so why risk negative publicity by leaving a possibly buggy game out in publicJtyettis said:
InaudibleWhispa
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We've known since the initial announcement that Kinect was going to be in stores for one weekend only. They stated it numerous times on the Microsoft Store twitter page.
BenjaminBirdie
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InaudibleWhispa said:
Really?
InaudibleWhispa
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Just got back from the Mission Viejo mall. They're still demoing it there. They had two TVs set up back to back in the center of the mall, one playing Kinect Sports and the other playing Kinect Adventures. I sat there for about a half hour while my son played the different games available, and watched the crowd for reactions. I can't say I was too impressed by the actual gameplay (spastic Avatars, etc.), but it drew a pretty sizable crowd. Seemingly half of the people walking by would stop and watch for a minute or two before moving on. Most people seemed pretty impressed by it. People either didn't notice, or didn't care that there was input lag, or that the Avatars would occasionally suffer grand mal seizures. One lady was quizzing a MS employee about Kinect while her 3-4 year old son played Kinect Adventures. She was asking about the price of Kinect, which he said would be about $150. She asked if her son could play it on his Wii, and he told her no, it only works on Xbox 360, and that Xbox was better anyway because it worked on HDTVs (paraphrasing a bit here, but not much). She then asked when it would be out, and if they sold Xboxs there, and proceeded to walk into the store and buy the redesigned 360.
TheChewyWaffles
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This is a Kinect thread, so it's kinda the right place to ask: in that lightsaber Kinect demo that was at E3 did anyone else notice that the character on the screen moved before the person on stage? Did anyone else notice how scripted that shit looked?
InaudibleWhispa
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That was at the Cirque De Soleil event. Nobody was playing anything at that event, it was the circus guys integrating the exaggerated movements into their routine. It was shown at the Microsoft conference as a trailer; it hasn't been shown playable yet.BigNastyCurve said:
TheChewyWaffles
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That's odd, because it's been used in a shitload of Kinect promo videos as thought it were a demo. Fakers.
Here's a transcript of what the presenter says about Kinect: -bj00rn_ said:
It's only a short segment and doesn't really show anything we haven't already seen.
One of the devs of Mafia II then briefly talks about it, saying that he's not into games where he has to move/jump around because they're just not for him, but he can think of "loads of really good ideas" for other ways that Kinect could be used. He gives examples of "using sign language or something like that" and "your ability to lie being read by Kinect". A little vague, but he's not on screen for long.
Earl Cazone
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Vizion28 said:Link --> http://www.rareminion.com/updates.html
Here is someone's impression of Kinect at Microsoft's store. He seemed to have enjoyed it and said he didn't notice much lag. He also stated kids were having a ball with it jumping and laughing hysterically.
Again, I am pretty confident Kinect will be successful. There is no bigger indication something is going to sell well if it puts smiles on peoples' faces. Of course it will be no where as successful as the Wii but successful enough to make Nintendo regret passing over the tech. Microsoft has a winner! Children and a lot of 'exergamers' are going to eat this up.
I know it's difficult for Gaffers to imagine Kinect being successful perhaps because it is difficult to put yourself in someone's shoes who is not a hardcore gamer?
You're right. as Cammie Dunaway said in 2008:
"Wer put more smiles, to people's faces"
InaudibleWhispa
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Yeah, they're using a trailer for a game in their promo videos... how fake of them.BigNastyCurve said:
InaudibleWhispa
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Kinect to be playable at 13 Macy's stores nationwide from July 15th.
Exact stores aren't known yet. Feel free to make a new thread if anyone feels it warrants it, I think it'd be OK in here with a title change.
Exact stores aren't known yet. Feel free to make a new thread if anyone feels it warrants it, I think it'd be OK in here with a title change.
Vizion28 said:
Why? It's obvious that Nintendo didn't need the tech. It'd have taken years and hundreds of millions of dollars to make it good enough and cheap enough to manufacture and sell at a profit. Nintendo isn't some magical company that can make technology viable faster than everyone else, you know
, and they're never gonna sell hardware at a loss. In fact, from a pure engineering perspective, I'd wager that Microsoft is better equipped to deal with that technology. Nintendo needed a system no later than 2006, and they judged that the games they had in mind (like Wii Sports and Fit) either didn't need it or would be worse with it (Wii Sports without a controller is a bad idea).akachan ningen
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InaudibleWhispa said:
Are they aiming for middle-aged women now?
flyinpiranha
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InaudibleWhispa said:
I checked that list and didn't see a link to the stores ... is there still no word on what stores it will have? I don't live near an MS store but have a Macy's about 10 blocks away.
This month, Microsoft is rolling out Kinect demo booths at malls across the country. Malls like Minnesota's Mall of America. And a bunch of Macy's.
The demo booth at the Mall of America kind of looks like a Winnebago! Which would not look entirely out of place at the Mall of America. This kiosk opens this Thursday.
http://kotaku.com/5586618/large-kinect-kiosk-sets-up-shop-in-mall
The demo booth at the Mall of America kind of looks like a Winnebago! Which would not look entirely out of place at the Mall of America. This kiosk opens this Thursday.
http://kotaku.com/5586618/large-kinect-kiosk-sets-up-shop-in-mall