People have said the 360 can't do 3D without a severe resolution and performance hit, unlike the PS3 and PC.
e.g.: CoD Black Ops. The res is really low, and the framerate in 3D is, frankly, bad, unless you have a PC.
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You have a very confused concept of how MS and Sony move hardware. The retailers *buy* hardware, and they buy as many as they feel they can sell. MS and Sony do not "dump" them at all. They cannot simply choose to ship units to retailers -- the retailers place an order, and then the manufacturer ships *exactly* that many.
Retailers are not merely tools of the companies that manufacture products. They do not operate on some kind of commiss...
Actually, the PSEye has been able to track faces for several years. It could probably easily determine the distance of your face from the camera... simply by testing the distance between the eyes, and relative distance of the eyes to the nose or mouth (to detect user head turns), after calibrating to a known distance by using the Move.
So... Kinect is MS'es answer to 3D games, as well as casual games, then?
I find that... confusing. It seems... not right.
Online is there the tech junkies shop. Hence the sell outs online, but not at brick-and-mortar retail.
No matter how you spin it, Kinect's numbers will not turn out well later this month. This final bit of spin can't save it.
Dance Central... that game is awesome, but its not $200 awesome, for most people. The rest of the games just don't have the staying power. I would almost buy Kinect for Dance Central... almost, if I also had a living room...
So... the next Wii won't have backwards compatibility with Wii or GameCube then, and Nintendo will have to reboot its entire library?
That'll go over well with casuals. /s
I have a feeling this rumor is... only that.
Whew! Let me breathe a sigh of relief! I can't go more than 12 months without a new CoD, after all.
/s
Oh wait. My new CoD around then will be Black Ops.. @ $20 on eBay.
@above... but they had 3000 on hand. That's the point.
15 million Kinects after one month, then? So... 1/3rd of all 360 owners?
Uh huh. Okay dude.
Its a contrast issue, which is very common in all forms of computer face recognition. The face recognition is not done with the depth camera -- it's not precise enough.
Pale blond individuals will also have some trouble with the face recognition, unless they're wearing makeup to darken their facial hair.
This isn't really surprising news, nor is it unique to Kinect. That said, face recognition should never be considered a primary feature of Kine...
Kinect + Move would be pretty sweet, if MS goes that route. It would also cost a fortune -- more than the console itself.
Thus... no one will ever adopt such a combo, and thus no 3rd party devs will be inspired to make games for said combo. Sad, but true.
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Wait... doesn't MS own CNET? They are so fired.
I still have trouble fathoming why ANYONE would ever need more than ONE navigation controller.
Afaik, its only for single player games. Are there any split-screen coop move games that might require two? MAG.. no, SOCOM 4... I guess we don't know... Killzone 3... again, don't know. Seems unlikely though.
They say the 360 version has 2x MSAA... but I'm not seeing it in their screenshots? Even in their "check out the AA difference" screens, I'm seeing some serious jaggies on the 360 and PS3 both. I can't really tell the difference.
The 360 doesn't really strut its MSAA stuff until it hits 4X, I suppose... but then you have to deal with some serious sub-HD, so it's kind of moot.
UE3... never changes.
I'm a tad worried for the MS Games Division here.
I hear a distant "Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey..." going on in the background, like I'm at a football game that has gone horribly wrong for the visiting team.
It would suck if investors forced MS out of the games market, because of Kinect failing, when the 360 has done pretty well otherwise, IMO.
Dance Central will inspire some people to buy a Kinect... but it'll end up as more of an accessory for that game and its sequels/clones, than being useful for anything else, IMO.
Any game based on full body motion will work great with Kinect... dance games, fitness games... that's about it. Every other game is just shoehorned Kinect control, which ends up lame.
it's just not that useful outside of dancing and fitness. Don't get me wrong tho...
Indie devs: "Why did you exile Indie games to a non-games part of the menu? People will have more trouble finding us in the non-games section!"
MS: "We did it for your own good. You're better off for it, because... we said so."
...which will deeply affect publishers' desire to make expensive 3DS games that only the 3DS plays, rather than cheap DS games that all DS models can play.
@LazySAGamer
The article doesn't mention the 360, and all the major review sites are claiming its a pretty hefty hit. I think that, without the proper analysis tools, the article author is probably just guessing at the rez and FR, after playing at an "event".
EDIT: I see in the comments the author mentions that he played on the 360, now.
@DreamTension: You're comparing a game that hasn't been released to one that has. ...