(Posted By: Eric Rees)
With the launch of Playstation Move this week, the only other system yet to adopt a motion control system is Microsoft’s darling, the Xbox 360. Microsoft’s “Kinect” is planned to release this November but the question that is on everyone’s minds is will it do well or be banished by bad pricing issues to that graveyard that includes the Virtual Boy and the Power Glove?
Talking with another person who is in the video game business we were discussing the viability of Kinect, what it will do and what it won’t; more importantly what it promised to do and won’t be able to do. While all those are enough to constitute another editorial, the fact remains that Kinect stands on shaky ground with consumers at this point and the way that Microsoft has been backing off of previously stated promises isn’t helping the cause any.
Read more after the break.
Talking with another person who is in the video game business we were discussing the viability of Kinect, what it will do and what it won’t; more importantly what it promised to do and won’t be able to do. While all those are enough to constitute another editorial, the fact remains that Kinect stands on shaky ground with consumers at this point and the way that Microsoft has been backing off of previously stated promises isn’t helping the cause any.
Read more after the break.
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