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 🙁