Ike Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 'Register your interest'? Not really. You order it with the £20 deposit then it turns into a preorder order later once the price and release date have been announced.
gaggle64 Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 Not going to lie, I genuinely like the idea of sitting down and gripping an imaginary steering wheel, shifting into an imaginary 1st gear then putting an imaginary pedal to imaginary metal. 2 things bother me however: 1. Price? 2. If any of the the voice or image recognition features work with any consistency, it'll be a first.
Ten10 Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 Gamestop pre order price is $149 probably will get it for around £120 here. I'm out. Not that I was ever in.
Cube Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 (edited) It's more of a "very safe guesstimate" than anything else. edit: Jesus....Kinect looks massive. Edited June 14, 2010 by Cube
Wesley Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 Fucking hell... Where the fuck is that meant to sit? On top of my old tube tele? Crazy shit.
Shino Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 Its almost the size of a Wii. Probably equally powerful too.
Jimbob Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 Many have said that it won't catch on with the core gamers. I for one will have to agree with this. Honest, can we imagine playing games like GoW, Halo, GTA etc like this. It won't work too well if you ask me. Party/Family games this will work. And it will sell.
mcj metroid Posted June 15, 2010 Posted June 15, 2010 http://kotaku.com/5563519/there-is-a-new-michael-jackson-game wait make that now 5 dance games for kinect!
Dante Posted June 15, 2010 Author Posted June 15, 2010 Kinect games come in same purple cases like gamecube did.
Ike Posted June 15, 2010 Posted June 15, 2010 So is Joyride still free or do you have to pay for it now (or is it going to be bundled with Kinect)?
Murr Posted June 15, 2010 Posted June 15, 2010 Well.. Kinect will not be purchased by me. the new small 360 however will be, that's a tasty looking console! and with Gears3, Halo Reach and Fable 3.. it was a respectable e3 for Microsoft i suppose.
Dante Posted June 16, 2010 Author Posted June 16, 2010 IGN: Kinect only works/functions when you're standing up! Right now, Kinect only works when you stand. This includes menu navigation. All the cool options to grab a slider and advance through frames of a movie you are watching only work when you are on your feet. Kinect, we've been told, has problems handling your skeletal frame while sitting. The voice commands still work, but every game we've seen and even simple menu navigation have to be done with you out of your seat. That's not exactly how I want to watch my movies. If the focus for Kinect is creating games like Dance Central that naturally would require you to be off your couch, that's great. But I have to say, no one thinks "I am driving a car!" while standing up in their living room. Wait?! What?
Dyson Posted June 16, 2010 Posted June 16, 2010 You think they'll ship it that way? lol. It'll be fixed before launch.
Shorty Posted June 16, 2010 Posted June 16, 2010 Kinect games come in same purple cases like gamecube did. My Gamecube games came in black cases.
Dante Posted June 17, 2010 Author Posted June 17, 2010 (edited) My Gamecube games came in black cases. I have eight purple cases, one gold case and the rest are in black. Edited June 17, 2010 by Dante Automerged Doublepost
Shino Posted June 17, 2010 Posted June 17, 2010 Just watched the user interface demo and its pretty neat and all, but don't you think they choose that black gentleman in a dark attire just to disprove last years rumours of Natal not working with black people.
Will Posted June 17, 2010 Posted June 17, 2010 You think they'll ship it that way? lol. It'll be fixed before launch. They've had a long time to get things like this working. If it's true that it doesn't work sitting down then I'd imagine it's a pretty major issue that they can't sort out. I'm pretty certain natal will just do what eye toy did. Great initial take up but after that is anyone really going to care? I just don't see anyone being that interested outside of the initial novelty.
Ashley Posted June 17, 2010 Posted June 17, 2010 Just watched the user interface demo and its pretty neat and all, but don't you think they choose that black gentleman in a dark attire just to disprove last years rumours of Natal not working with black people. Its a shame ABC are bitches about YouTube because there was a great episode of 'Better Off Ted' that would be so apt right now. They installed lights that only came on when someone was in the room and sensed the light reflected off a person's skin. However it didn't work on black people and they defended it with the "its not racists, we are simply not seeing race, you're the racist" angle (and eventually got white people to follow black people around to turn all the lights on). Funny stuff. Aaaaaanyway yeah all my cube cases are black. I remember thinking at some point for as much slack as the cube got for being for kids it was the only console (at the time) whose cases didn't come in day-glow colours.
dazzybee Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 Just been reading about this and watching videos. I think it looks absolutely dreadful. Even worse than I imagined and I imagined it to be shit. It's...just bizarre. I think this will bomb drastically I really do; it seems to do what the wii has been doing for years but much worse. The navigation and voice activation stuff sounds great but for games it just painful.
Cube Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Price announced: Kinect (with Kinect Adventure): £129. 4GB Xbox + Kinect: £249. At those prices, I predict a massive flop. They need to take £60 off both prices for it to be effective.
D_prOdigy Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 (edited) If they put a big marketing push behind it, they might shift a few bundles to people with too much disposable income based on the novelty factor. At £130, I don't see many existing console owners picking it up as an impulse buy. For the sake of hilarity, I'm hoping they've sunk virtually all their R&D budget into this instead of a new console. Edited July 20, 2010 by D_prOdigy
Ike Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Kinect (with Kinect Adventure): £129. I'm out. Unless I get my dad to pay half or something, but that price is ridiculous.
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