I think the game potentially has broad appeal and more important to MS, could get alot of people who have little interest in video games wanting one too.
The question is will they plunk down the $$$ for it?
And will Kinect have any other genres to keep the momentum going.

Dance Central is the game that has my eye on Kinect and a great display of what developers could do.

I know this also interests my girl friend and her room mate.

Jesus, devs have been annoyed at the sales on Wii and how it's narrowed the demographic down to basic games and now MS are going to take that and make it worse. soon the biggest demographic will be the casuals and that means less and less great games to play

This could be done with the playstation eye for the most part.

No comment :)

I love Harmonix.
I love dancing.
I love video games.

Dance Central looks terrible.

It's not going to pick up my moonwalk...or my Japanese hand rolls...or when I accidentally dip someone out of view of the camera. *sigh*

Why can't people wait until the technology is ready?

Edit: Why do you guys think this looks bad or good? I'd like to hear some opinions.

Great. How wonderful for you all the dancing game kinda works. That disproves everything bad we said about the Kinect so far. This also fixes all the lies and false promises Mircosoft said and the Kinect 's limitations and their crappy simple minded games plus proves beyond a doubt that it isn't like the Eyetoy. I can see myself playing this everyday for a year and not getting tired of it like I did with Dance Dance Revolution. This changes everything and Move is doomed. Indisputable prove with no video of it working as per usual. Wow, you guys sure showed us. (Yawn)

If the Elaine dance is an option, I will buy a 360, Kinect, and Dance Central.

And these are the type of shovelware you will see litter Kinetic....and the sad part is...those are the games that will make this thing sell by the boat loads.

This is sad... the biggest hype for a $130 motion controller is for a dancing game.

Yeah. Forget LBP2. Forget Endocrome 2, Time Crisis, Dead Space, R.U.S.E and Sorcery on the Move .You guys have a dance game that if I remember correctly the PS3 is getting too. Wow, your defenses for the Kinect are as impenitrable as usual. It is so funny to see you guys fighting so hard to defend the Kinect while most of your 360 peers hate it too.I would love to see where Microsoft is going to get the'millions of people that they claim will buy the Kinect from.

anyone trying to downplay Dance Central needs to take a step back and actually think about it.

it is a FULL BODY dance game. its to dancing what Rock Band 3s Pro Mode is to guitar playing - if you get perfect scoring in the game youre dancing well, just like if you get perfect scoring in Pro Mode on RB3 youre actually playing real guitar.

a game like this has NOT been done before. this is NOT like Dance Dance Revolution. Dance Dance Revolution is just 4 buttons on the ground that you stomp with your feet. you can do as little or as much with your hands and upper body as you want, but it doesnt affect the game at all. itd be like playing Killzone 2 with the standard controller, but jumping in real life as well as pressing the jump button every time you want to jump - sure, you can do it, but it makes no difference to the game.

its also made by Harmonix, and that says a lot. remember, these are the guys who created Guitar Hero AND Rock Band, 2 of the biggest money earning games the industry has ever seen. they know how to make rhythm style games, and they know how to market their game to sell it.

is this game for me? no, not at all. im one of those guys that wouldnt be caught dead on the dancefloor, and have absolutely no interest in dancing even in private in my own home. but my missus loves dancing, and when i showed her this she told me to buy it for her. the only games she plays on 360/PS3 is rock band, and she wants to get a wii - shes the EXACT market that Microsoft is aiming for with Kinect.

Dance Central could be the next Wii Fit. its the type of game that is ONLY possible with Kinect. its the type of game that i HOPE the majority of Kinect games are like - games that cannot be done with a control pad. it cannot be done on Move, it cannot be done on the Wii, it cannot be done on the 360 without Kinect. its a bonafide 'Only Possible On Kinect' game.

Next you'll be watching Pineapple Dance studios and telling me it's like watching a live rock band.
This is what gets me.360 fans on here are so desperate for Kinect success that they come out with things like"Dance Central could be the next Wii Fit".And that is a good thing?
Wii Fit is a mostly dust gathering waste of space,played by only women(of anyone I know that bought it).
As for can't be done on Wii/Move,you are right.Instead of this Move gets Singstar Dance.2 singers AND 2 dancers(dancing look crap though but then so does DC).Dance Central will not match Just Dance for sales.
I still just cannot see how any gamer things Kinect will be good,especially someone found on a forum.

Didn't they also say this POS game may be coming to the PS3 with use with the PS EYE?