Oprah doesn't pay guests and doesn't promote stuff she doen't belive in...She will only endorse products that shes believes in...She is not some poor talk show host begging for scraps...
Yes I do think M$oft will have kinect exclusives...they are already doing this...did you see the TGS stuff not to mention they've been staffing up there internal studios for the past 6-9 months... M$oft tends to listen to thier base and react faster to it than Sony or Nintendo...
Who here remembers Replay Tv....no one hmmmmm....? O.K. what about Ultimate Tv hmmm... no one... O.K. Back when Tivo which I know you all recognize was new and in a battle with the other 2 formats mentioned Tivo got featured on Oprah 2 days later they were sold out nationwide... That is a true story I was a salesman at the time and there were tons in stock and not too many people really understood dvr's at the time and now the defacto name dvr's is tivo just like the defacto name f...
O.K. we all talk about M$oft being evil or wrong for spending money on marketing kinect to casuals...
We complain about not enough hardcore software for kinect at launch.
We say things like there is no replay value in kinect launch titles....
We have some how bought in to Sony's clevery designed paid bloggers idea of what kind of game is fun...
Look I don't know many people that don't enjoy either dancing ...
My girlfriend can't wait for Kinect, happy days. It seems I'll be buying dance central, the fitness game and for her and waiting for the more core games for myself next year.
I think kinect will do just fine $500 buys you any image you want. Well it will sell like hotcakes then they will probably launch the next x360 with it built in it in 2013 at the latest. The real question is what will happen to the Wii as its sales have already started to slow, and how will move do in the wake of this advertising onslought?
Kinect as you say is more powerful than eyetoy because it is designed to see and operate in 3 deminsions. Just because the 1st wave of software can't or doesn't use all the abilities of the hardware doesn't mean that the 2nd or third won't. A perfect example is the first 2 years of ps3 software when no developers were using the cell properly. second gen software ala the things showed at TGS already look to be more promising and more complicated in use the fist wave must int...
Just because we are hardcore doesn't mean we have to be fanboys. I plan on getting the kinect and letting the "FINAL" "HARDWARE" and games do the talking for themselves if they dissapoint my girlfriend who i'm getting it for will be the fisrt to throw it out a window... I plan to get the PS move just for me too exspensive to get 4 of them and I already have the wii so thats that...let it come out and then lets see what happens...
Well thats not entirely true..."This mindset is exactly why microsoft is ignoring you.. You have two titles to look forward to next year" What is true us that last gen M$oft had lots of original IP's but felt like they couldn't get a foothold on the market because Sony was the platform that all the big third party's were on ala MGS, GTA, FF, tekken, and loads of others so this gen M$oft went out of there way to secure all those titles for thier platform. They did it whi...
I have to admit that M$oft has been puuting in alot of PR overtime. But I don't think any company can be as arrogant as Sony used to be telling me I will buy a ps3 whether or not there are any games is way out there not that microsoft has been eating humble pie lately.
Mirosoft is not currently nor will they anytime soon abandon the hardcore we were first... Look Halo, Gears, and fps's in general are M$oft bread and butter but just like platformers used to be the ...
I read the article and many responses.
My point in the whole matter is that Move will do great with hardcore audiences as evidenced bye it being the preffered platform to many of us who blog. We who are on this site represent the hardecore not the casual and I think thats where the kinect will do well with casuals like my girlfriend. But to those of you looking for what i mentioned about pre-orders I read it on this site so just as you on any given day read about all the possible...
The author doesn't provide any numbers and forgets that there are more kinect pre-orders than there are Move's sold. Not to mention that M$oft has said 1000 times that the original wave of games are "DESIGNED" to attract a "LARGER CASUAL" audience. Anybody posting on this site is not a casual player so the games shown at TGS are part of the second wave and are more geared towards us hardcore. Look bottom line, if you have a girlfriend and you've ever tried t...
I openely admit that I'm in the glasses free corner, however that does not mean that I can't appreciate the glasses based tech. For right now the glasses based tech is the only affordable option. It's just not an option for me. I have children and family would want to watch the new t.v. together and the need to pay $150 per pair of glasses and keeping up with them all when the remote disappears daily would not be something I'd be willing to do. I would be willing to buy a ...
I've read your post and article and What he's talking about is a work around to do software based tasselation, and for all porpses is extremly limited. What the article is talking about is the fact that the XEON gpu in the x360 has a HARDWARE based tasselator on board. So to give you a better idea of what what means, usually sofeware based solutions are only 10-25% as effective as a hardware based solution. So 20k to 100k poly count mesh thats a problem for software won't be on...
You are correct tesselation is possible on ps3 so are nurbs the problem is it's not a feature of the hardware itself therefore it doesn't perform it as well as it would if it had been a built in function. "Programmers' will tell you that no matter how good you write your code calling the built in functions and classes are always easier to use and faster...So it will more than likely be better implemented on the x360 now that the software will support the hardware in this ar...
Ok I've been saying this since I found out the same thing I'm also curentlyin school as a programmer and from what I've seen the x360 has been bieng held back bye Microsoft in the graphics department. ok , look at it this way in the begining developers were saying how easy it was to get a game up and running on the x360 because the hardware was using directx 9 with elements of 10 and beyond. Everyone talks about how the x360 is just like a pc " I don't believe this"...
Well I'm gonna go at this from a couple different angles.
1. No amount of video on the net can reprooduce a hands on experience of a finished product.
2. Price... it cost less to play any 2 player game on kinect than it does on move.
3. Precision...we've all been told its precision lies somewhere between the wii remote and move, but dare I say the experience you have will be game based.
4. Tech... We've ...
@ Trroy
thankyou for proving my point your entire rebutal is talks about the power of the cell which I never disagreed with. My point was that it is the developers ability to code to the metal that would allow you to get similar results on both the ps3 and the x360..as this is what the developers are saying....My point about the cell is that it IS a more powerful cpu than the Xenos in the x360 but that the Xeon gpu easily outclasses the RSX...which is one the the ps3's...
@Raztad
Sorry raztad but as you said the RSX is MSAA "capable" is NOT the same thing as being a Hardware function...the x360 uses its daughter die the edram and its logic processors to give the x360 FSAA 4X free at 480p and free at FSAA 2x 720p it get tiled to do FSAA 4x 720p or any larger image at "virtually" no cost to the gpu
You can disagree all you want about the xean gpu being a type of hybrid gpu that does some deffered renderi...
Look this guy is just a blogger that believes he's a journalist thus entitled to "FREE HARDWARE" he didn't get it now he's pissed...Thats it & if you think that embargo's on review's of major releases is anything but "NORMAL" you've been living on another planet.... Every major release x360 & ps3 has been embargo'd up until it's release... The only time any game or anything else get pre-release reviews is when the developer desires t...