Microsoft PR:"lag?" "We don't know what we're talking about here exactly, we might be dealing with a camera, input lag? in an optical electronic device? impossible,err whoever heard of it, I mean...If it's bad it's not related to Kinect,no...,oh forget it, we have 52, hemorrhoids and 3 kids, we'll give some money to the media and they'll reassure the people with all that technical mumbo-jumbo we don't have"

Then Again, Of course there's not lag when IMITATING A PRERECORDED VIDEO. In fact, I saw several people "lagging" behind kinect demos on E3, not otherwise.
It's "Frighteningly" being defended by Omega and green turd of life and "Shockingly" they don't care that it is just utter mainure.

This article is probably a load of shit, every thing I've seen and heard about Kinect tells me that it lags. I'll trust the proof when it comes out this November.

"Joy Ride's steering is restrictive and too simplistic (you can't even brake)"

awesome ... now brakes are useless.

bear in mind i don't use brakes when i'm playing mario kart ( i'd rather drift) BUT brakes are usefull to control your car ( kart in that case ) or to go back on track after an attack ...

and I saw lag on every single game being played. I also saw bad calibration issues on Joy Ride for several players.

Somone is lying. I have read several articles that say the Kinect still doesn't react fast enough because of the lag. The breakout type game for example they said that the lag can cause you to lose at crucial moments. It's also strange that despite what these people say there are no videos showing the Kinect working perfectly. Everybody wants you to take there word for it.Once again praise for the Kinect without proof. If Microsoft hadn't lied and told half truths in the first place, people wouldn't doubt their word. Besides everyone acts as if the lag is the only problem the Kinect has.

I wonder if the author realizes that he is not CONTROLLING the dancing avatar on Dance Central. I somehow doubt that anyone at the "special MS UK event" pointed that out to him.

Microsoft themselves are not confident enough to use live game demo on the E3 stage. They had to use recorded demos and use people to imitate the recorded game demo instead.

Microsoft Kinect™.

It controls you.

Out of the motion controls. Also, since it's mostly games you'll be playing not online, it shouldn't really be an issue. Millions of people seemed to enjoy the Wii, even with all it's lag and even though it lacked the ability to track motions.

Move lagged a lot, noticeably at E3, which worries me and is a reason I haven't pre-ordered it like I did Kinect. I just suspect it will lag even more if you try to use it across a network or online. So I am a bit weary of it.

*cough*pre-recorded fake videos*cough*

The point is that everyone keeps saying that the lag doesn't matter. I agree that with the games that Microsoft has so far it may not matter.If you are at a party or with kids and goofing around and jumping around no one notices that they are losing and the lag is throwing them off. But when it comes to playing the game to win or to go for the highscore this could be a problem. Just imagine you are playing the racing game and at the last second before you reach the finish line the car skids to the right losing you the race. Suppose you are going for the high score in the Breakout game or the Bowling and just as you are about to beat it the motion you make doesn't register? Think about playing the jenga like game for the Move with the Kinect. Without the the right precision you could knock down the whole tower down without meaning to. You see what i mean? The Kinect is fine as long as you don't have to do anything to complicated or don't plan on seriously winning the game. That is why every one who plays it has a different opinion. They play it and claim they are having fun but don't realise that the lag is messing them up or that they are not playing the game properly.Of course that is just a theory. Take it seriously or not

hmm the avatar isn't showing you what it must look like...I thought ^^
It's just judging how well you match

-sigh-
In this dancing game, the character on screen doesn't match your movements.

Ok I'm not going to say that the person who wrote the article is pro MS but lets face it, we all seen the lag at E3 and I seen how bad it really was. I don't for one minute believe that any hardcore gamer will not notice lag just because they are actually involved in the game. I notice faults about the Wii's motion controls while playing and you are involved in those games, granted its different but the same concept should apply.
Admittedly dance central was not the worst offender of lag but I still got the impression that all moves had been pre-planned, and if rumours are to be true, Kinect can only track 2 people at any one time (extra dancer in videos, obviously just a PR ploy) and it was also clear from a few gameplay footages that only one maybe two of the dancer were actually being tracked.
But there is one major factor of kinect that seems to have been brushed under a rug, and that is the space needed to get a decent recognition of movement and no way will I get 8 feet from my TV unless I stand on the bed. I already struggle with the wii as I have my consoles in my room and don't have anywhere near the recommended dimensions.
I won't say I will never get Kinect but its going to be one of those things that only a certain genre will make me buy it. Only reason I keep the Wii is because of the light gun games from SEGA amongst a very few other titles. It is clearly going to be just like the Wii where the games, and control recognitions are only as good as the developer with the technology.

ahh....an ADVERTISEMENT

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Helix will be expensive but it's still a day one for me.

Oh, my days...
So Nadella meets with the US president multiple times to ensure AI regulations are minimal if any at all, donates to the inauguration and ballroom, and his boy not only won't regulate AI as farmers lose land and billionaires/corporations buy up farmland to build data centers...but because he's insane and compromised, he starts a war on behalf of a rogue colonial zionist state and [further] destabilizes the Middle East, restricting component access and helium supply.

Now the head of Xbox is saying the hardware pricing "could impact" next generation hardware pricing? Asha,...your boss at a minimum played a direct role in this. What are we even talking about?

Yea because a $3 trillion company can’t absorb the majority of the cost to keep the product lower for consumers.

Expensive… oh no, here comes another flop.

Could? Strange how prices rise for virtually everything we buy, yet when things settle down, prices don't come down. This has been happening in the UK probably before I was born. With that, how much is a next gen console going to cost? Look at the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro, which has been a flop for Sony. On that note, we don't need the next consoles for another 5 years.

I guarantee if people just stopped buying this kinda stuff all together. This would all be sorted within 2 weeks and everything would be back to normal.

We seen the exact same thing through the COVID period. Companies just jumped on the bandwagon realising that they can get away with charging far more under false pretences and fear mongering.

Consumers now have this fear of "you know what, I only live once. I'm going to spend all this money I earned through my hard work" Or "I only live once I'm going to take a loan out and enjoy my time here".

Silicone Valley spends literally billions of dollars researching how much they can push society to the limits to increase spending. You can research it yourself. There's published written documentation about it. Have a look for yourself into their group research into subscription programs to see how evil they are and why it's such a giant focus of current civilization. Its the very essence of corporate capitalism.

Just delay all new consoles. I could easily go another 5 years with my base PS5.

could? it's already affecting current gen pricing.

It is greed. Apple are selling at the same price, while Microsoft Surface increases 500$ per unit. Karma will tell.