Microsoft Kinect: Games and Video Chat Revealed

[JMcEntegart]

Microsoft may have caused a fuss when it announced Natal at E3 2009 but Natal is already making a huge splash at E3 2010.

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[schwiing]

Sell those Nintendo Shares

 

[sidran32]

Seems like an underwhelming first look. Hope it gets better!

 

[sliem]

Sounds like awesome, albeit $150 price tag.
Weird name though (Kinect). Hope there is no rise in subscription fee ($30-45 a year is good).

Kinectimals: what, only cats - how about horses and other animals we'd never hoped to be pets (dragons? balrog? lol)

Joyride: I don't know, gets tiring after awhile

Kinect Sports: make sure you don't kick your shoes off and break the TV/kinect

Kinect Adventures: I'd expect more than river-raft... maybe an RPG in a 3D-looking (not real 3D, I hate glasses) dungeons/jungle etc.

Dance Central: Interesting

Wish list:

Oblivion V
Battlefield Bad Company 3 (or similarly FPS/TPS games)
Left 4 Dead 3
Prince of Persia (or Assassin's Creed 3)

 

[christopherknapp]

Wow cool ... Wii without the controllers. And look everyone ... free lag time too!

 

[sidran32]

[citation][nom]christopherknapp[/nom]Wow cool ... Wii without the controllers. And look everyone ... free lag time too![/citation]
I sincerely hope that it's differentiated from the Wii. And I'm pretty sure that some later reports have stated that they solved the lag issue.

 

[Gamer-girl]

I could imagine people playing that rafting game and knocking their heads together on the couch....

 

[Gamer-girl]

I could imagine people playing that rafting game and knocking their heads together on the couch....

 

[Kelavarus]

I don't think Kinect is a bad name, Project Natal was never that great in my opinion, but Kinectimals makes me laugh.

Will be interesting to see where this heads.

 

[ordcestus]

[citation][nom]Gamer-girl[/nom]I could imagine people playing that rafting game and knocking their heads together on the couch....[/citation]
oh that reminds me of when my girlfriend first played Wii. She swung back with the controller and broke my nose. I have to wonder how many injuries tthat system has caused.

 

[Guest]

Spoiler... The big news at E3 around is around Natal... I mean Kinect 3d. Thats right 3d play using Kinect. Think about it actually hitting virtual balls that are presnted in 3d space for example.

 

[RipperjackAU]

Kinectimals lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats

That's the big draw for the furry crowd.

Now, with voice chat? Can you say an all new experience for chatroulette.com??!! Now race your friends, and see who comes in second.

 

[bv90andy]

So they had a long and painful brainstorming and came up with Kinect? I liked Natal better.

 

[decepticon]

$150?! Seriously? That's as much as an arcade Xbox....

 

[azcoyote]

So the camera can differentiate the movements of 2 or more people at once... Um... I can imagine a couple of movements involving 2 people that SOMEONE out there is gonna try... The question is how long it will take before Vivid wants to release a "game" on the XBOX. LMAO

 

[rooket]

cool name. I didn't like the name Natal. good riddance and good job microsoft

 

[lifelesspoet]

I would think they would make the device match the rest of the system.

 

[tipoo]

I'm sold.

 

[shulya]

How do you for from "Natal" to Kinect?...

 

[possiblyreefer]

seems like quite a bit of post-natal depression about the upcoming bit of kit