Official: Microsoft's Project Natal, Named Kinect (Out Now!)

[money_killer]

Originally Posted by DiGiTaL MoNkEY

I think the PS3 will take the new control crown. While Kinect is cool for some applications, i don't see that many games being created for it...maybe i'm not that creative, but i think the PS3 will be able to offer a wider range.

i think ur right i just checked out sony's new thing then. and its cheaper on $120

[ni9ht_5ta1k3r]

Originally Posted by money_killer

i think ur right i just checked out sony's new thing then. and its cheaper on $120

that's $120 per player....

[walker_2003]

Originally Posted by trop

Maybe they tried and realised it doesn't work for hardcore gaming. You know, like most people are realising after 4-5 years of wii crap. These types of controls only work for 5-20min casual games or games which can be played easily with a group of non gaming people - ie wii/kinect/move sports/fit.

Will be funny watching sony with its blatant wii rip off "move", doing blatant wii rii rip off attempts at hardcore games and failing for the next 5 years though. Even funnier will be the PS3 zealots defending it and telling everyone how great it is while never actually playing it. hmmm probly should start calling them PSthrii zealots now...

move actually looks good unlike wii, the boxing looks amazing the player on screen actually does what you do unlike wii boxing.

[gregpolk]

Originally Posted by trop

I think the PS3 will get a few good titles from sony and bucket loads of shovelware crap that will be ported from the wii and given a HD stamp.

Kinect will get a few good titles from MS and hopefully miss out on the shovelware from the wii since its not just the same product but with a nob on top.

They'll both be full of wii type shovelware. MS in particular is launching with plenty of it :P That's the market they're after.

Originally Posted by ni9ht_5ta1k3r

that's $120 per player....

Yeah that's going to sting if there are actually some good local multiplayer titles.

*pictures the TV with a wii sensor bar, Kinect, PS eye all together.*

[ni9ht_5ta1k3r]

the good thing is that kinect can be used to control videos so even if you don't play games with it just go minority report!

[DiGiTaL MoNkEY]

Originally Posted by money_killer

i think ur right i just checked out sony's new thing then. and its cheaper on $120

Originally Posted by ni9ht_5ta1k3r

that's $120 per player....

Microsoft would be silly to price it that high, officially they haven't announced a price so these stores putting up a price (that they think is a good estimate) is just a way to get pre-orders and then adjust the price once its announced.

Microsoft need people to adopt this quickly and keeping the price low will allow that.

[ni9ht_5ta1k3r]

i dunno what would be a reasonable price, though i would be leaning to at least 140.

[DiGiTaL MoNkEY]

Originally Posted by ni9ht_5ta1k3r

i dunno what would be a reasonable price, though i would be leaning to at least 140.

I'm not sure either, but i think it should be closer to $100 than $200. Making it cost near half the price of the console itself is a bit stupid.

[ni9ht_5ta1k3r]

Originally Posted by DiGiTaL MoNkEY

I'm not sure either, but i think it should be closer to $100 than $200. Making it cost near half the price of the console itself is a bit stupid.

considering it tracked 2 ppl during the demos i guess it's better value then buying 2 move controllers.

[Scorpion121]

I reckon it's better than what I thought.

Rather than just a game controller it controls a lot more.

Before I wasn't interested it (after owning a Wii) but now I'm intrigued with the video control, video chat and anything else I can do without having to handle a controller.

The only thing that will turn me off is if it's too expensive. Less than $200 would be fine, anything over that, I'd need to be using it fairly often to make it cost effective.

[ni9ht_5ta1k3r]

when dance central comes out i can just see youtube being flooded with recordings of ppl playing the game who couldn't dance for the life of them LOL

[gregpolk]

I thought it was fairly solid that it was going to be $199 here? If that's not the case and it's down closer to $100 I'll buy one day 1. At $199 I'll wait for more titles, considering at the moment I mostly want it for controlling the system more than the current list of games. I would have thought cheap as possible would be a good strategy. Don't try to profit off the peripheral, focus on early adoption to encourage devs to get titles out there for them.

[ni9ht_5ta1k3r]

we'll just have to wait till november 4!

[richan3185]

Ignore me, found it in the tech thread...

[Deadshot_80]

This Xbox will make me jump in' (pun indented)

How would you guys rate it as a media center? I've been looking around and people have very differing opinions about it.

Is it easy to stream music from windows media player? Do videos work just as easy?

I'm just after your opinion