Kinect lifestyle photography features enormous living room, jumping

The more pictures I see like that the more it puts me off.

*Loving family and friends not included

I wish they’d launch it already so I can point and laugh. Then I wish Mgestyk would launch their product so I can point and laugh at the Kinect crowd while playing gesture controlled Need for Speed 5 sitting down in front of the screen.

Seriously, I’ve spent the last week researching Natal/Kinect, Move and a couple of other motion sensing thingamajigs for a show. There are better third party alternatives in development.

It apears that in the MS fantasy universe, people’s entire living rooms contain nothing but one couch and a TV at both ends of the room.
If that’s the set up you need in order to play Kinect, they’re going to be sorely dissapointed by the avarage household.

LOL, I wanna waz on Kinect! :O, I’ve always know waz as taking a pee
I have a lounge to cope with the Kinect, but I don’t want to.
I wonder if dogs passing by will interfere with the Kinect?

Isnt one of these pictures one that we saw on that leaked box for Kinect?

Think someone at MS need to get out more if he/she thinks people have livingroom’s like that…

Never more than two people playing. No one ever sits down to play. Has that been officially confirmed yet? These sort of do it but has there been some real hard “Yes, at the moment that is the case” confirmation?

@7

Does it really matter? The only people playing Kinect will be the kind of people that actually want to get up and dance in front of their TV (probably not any of us), and - huge sweeping genralisations incoming - people like that tend to either do it as a guilty solo pleasure or have ego’s that prevent them sharing the spotlight with anyone else.

… That living room’s bigger than most people’s houses. o_0

@8 Well and truly fucks any chances of FPS head tracking and negates the usefulness of a motion controlled dash if it can’t effectively track a seated person.

Again no more than 2 ‘active’ players in all shots which appears to be further confirmation of the leaked specs. Oh well I sold my xbox this week as I was holding off to see if E3 would reveal some ‘normal’ games for kinect but never and I can buy a wii for the same price so I’ll pass

Looks like Sony will be getting my money for Move cos it has a combination of games that I want to play and ones that my family can enjoy.

Vegas is Taking Bets on how quick this will Fail.

The Windows Mobile Phone Failed in 2 Months and Microsoft pulled the plug,

So any bets on how fast the Kinect will Fail??? I give it a year??? Maybe I am being too nice. I will tell you this, when the Kinect fails and goes on Clearance at WallyWorld, for $20 US, I will buy Just to have Microphone, So I don’t have to wear a Damn Headset anymore…LOL

@10

The more ‘lifestyle’ releases I see for Kinect the less I think any kind of core support at all will be provided. I don’t think MS themselves will consider any kind of core support.

The sitting down issue has been debunked already though I believe, unless you sit forced back into your seat. Kinect can be made to fail under certain circumstances, as can any motion control device, but in normal use there won’t be a problem with sitting and using it.

@12

I dont think Kinect will fail, in fact I reckon it will be quite successful off the back of the sport and dance games shown so far, but I dont think it will ever appeal to core gamers or be properly supported in core games.

@13

I agree with you, to be serious though, to appeal to the Mass, it will depend on the price. Middle-Class in the USA is strapped with No more credit. The Gov’t is trying to extend Unemployment Payments for Millions right now. This will be very interesting to watch though!

@14

yeah, price could very well be an issue. The rumoured price of around £125 in the UK for example is just preposterous.

@13
The sitting down thing may have been related to the reduced specs for the depth camera – they halved the resolution at some point. Some adjustment needed in some peoples software to take that into account.

I’m thinking this will fail harder than Sega’s 32X.

I think there is still a little buzz behind Natal, but everything what software… SOFTWARE company did with this technology is absolutely WRONG.

Everytime i see Natal in the action or some living room picture it’s just puts me off.

My family for example don’t understand what this shit is. Show them Natal or Eye toy, they will buy Eye Toy, it’s cheaper and because they are casuals (and there is the reason why they are casual players) they will play for 5 minutes and forget about it.

And yes, the price will be less than 150$. 100$ probably. 2 weeks ago i was at Microsoft place for some info and i asked them about Natal price, they said 150$ is rumored price and the REAL price will be announced soon.

Anyway, this is the same thing like Sega CD or Sega X32. You can’t fragment the market in the mid term no matter what support you have.

“Anyway, this is the same thing like Sega CD or Sega X32. You can’t fragment the market in the mid term no matter what support you have.”

Balance boards and MotionPlus have not harmed Nintendo in any way.

Perhaps that’s why they’re attempting to draw in a new market rather than sell it to us?

‘cos God knows, they’re not selling it to us. At all.

I think if you mixed the Segas 32 X and the Sega Dreamcast you would get what Kinect will be, the mother of all screw ups

@19
Nor did EyeToy.

The way in is probably through kids. Kinectimals is the closest I’ve seen to a potential system seller for them. Just depends if there is some magic behind the nice looks.

@19 Balance boards were introduced in the start of life cycle and motion plus selling not for 100-150 BUCKS in the end they started to include it without additional price + i don’t think so that casual player thinks “OMG, i need to buy Motion Plus to play better RIGHT NOW!!!1″.

Thats why it is Sega CD or X32. Overpriced piece of shits, that works not really well.

+ i always wanted to say: Casual player, good luck buying your Xbox 360 for 200$+ good luck connecting your Xbox 360 to the Xbox live with your controller and good luck connecting your Kinect. That some casual puzzle Right here.

@20″‘cos God knows, they’re not selling it to us. At all.”

In the end they will. Fable 3 have some NatalY support

It does, but EG’s resident Lionhead mole says thus:

“Nah…the Kinect stuff is optional and not important to gameplay.
Treat the game as the pad game it is, and if you have a Kinect camera, then some added amusement.”

So.. it’s in, you can use it if you like, but you’re not going to buy Kinect for it.

@23

Oh dear, you really make this hard on yourself don’t you?

“Balance boards were introduced in the start of life cycle”

No. It’s an aftermarket add-on.

“and motion plus selling not for 100-150 BUCKS”

What is the cost of a balance board?

“in the end they started to include it without additional price”

Motionplus yes, balance boards no.

“i don’t think so that casual player thinks “OMG, i need to buy Motion Plus to play better RIGHT NOW!!!1″

But they DO think “I need a balance board to play Wii fit”

“Thats why it is Sega CD or X32. Overpriced piece of shits, that works not really well.”

No different from balance board, MotionPlus and EyeToy, as already explained.

“i always wanted to say: Casual player, good luck buying your Xbox 360 for 200$+ good luck connecting your Xbox 360 to the Xbox live with your controller and good luck connecting your Kinect. That some casual puzzle Right here. ”

No different than connecting a sensor bar to your Wii or an EyeToy to your PS3. Lol, lol, etc.

You really should think through things before replying you know.

“No. It’s an aftermarket add-on.”

After ONE year. The start of life cycle. Acceptable.

“What is the cost of a balance board?”

What it has to do with the Natal? I don’t get it. It’s just a peripheral that is not Important to play casual games while you have Wii. Balance board is for some games and shitty fit games that mom’s love after buying it’s precious Wii.

Sega CD and X32 were important parts of the console that enchance your experience, Natal or Move is the same thing now. They enchance your experience.
Balance board is just a Fit shit stuff and it sells because of that.

“Motionplus yes, balance boards no.”

and?

“But they DO think “I need a balance board to play Wii fit””

There is a big difference between balance board and Natal or Playstation Move.

“No different than connecting a sensor bar to your Wii or an EyeToy to your PS3.”

for you not, for casual player this is a problem. PS3 is a hardcore system and Eye toy is a good example. 5% of the install base have that camera or less.
Wii? It’s easy.
But xbox 360 for Casual player? Not so much if you want to use video chats, XBLA and e.t.c + controller. Urgh…

“You really should think through things before replying you know.”

and you should stop masturbating on Microsoft.

Well I’d imagine plenty more americans will buy this than us Brits as more of them will have bigger living rooms to accommodate it. I don’t see why people get so angry over this. It’s an add-on, you don’t HAVE to buy it. The games shown so far are mostly for kids, and i’d imagine a Wii would be better for them anyway as it’s cheaper to replace when bits get broken.

@26

“Wii? It’s easy.
But xbox 360 for Casual player? Not so much if you want to use video chats, XBLA and e.t.c + controller. Urgh…”

No, there is no more complexity to the Kinect setup, or EyeToy for that matter, than there is to setting up a Wii. In fact, controller synching on a Wii is a right pain in the ass compared to 360 or PS3 synching.

“and you should stop masturbating on Microsoft.”

I argue with you because you make stupid comments. It’s nothing to do with Microsoft.

The fact of the matter is that Kinect and Move are peripherals which give you additional control options in games, in exactly the same way that Balance boards and Motionplus do.

Also, in the same way that some Wii games wont work without a balance board or motionplus, some 360 games wont work without Kinect and some PS3 games wont work without Move.

The software for these devices are largely aimed at a new market, and so will not divide the existing player base in the way that 32x did.

Still no pictures of people sitting down whilst playing.

@26
“There is a big difference between balance board and Natal or Playstation Move.”

Cost per game you will use it with?

It totally looks like those kids are zombies

MS needs to come to my house, which would be a more realistic depiction of American life and the abode lived in by the average Joe and Jo Anne.

*Vomit and wee stains on the sand-colored carpet that was put in the house by three orangutans claiming to be carpet specialists.
*The smell of hay, horse, and hound slapping you unceremoniously in the face upon stepping over the threshold.
*Dog hair caked on the $1K area rug in the living room, even though it was hairless, thanks to the Dyson, 30 minutes beforehand.
*A laundry room that needs a match instead of the many months of accumulated clothes washed.
*A woman sitting in her overstuffed leather chair – that she saved to buy for eight months just so the cats could ruin it 5 minutes in the door – rocking back and forth with a cigarette in her hand humming the Maldive National Anthem, hair matted and a far off look in her dull, depleted eyes.
*A man screaming at the Hi-def because the PS3 locked up his game again and the 360 has a cat weighing 27 pounds sitting on it.

Wait. Never mind, Microsoft. I’ll take your faux reality where the house is in chic order any day of the week over real life