Saturday, July 24, 2010

Xbox 360: Kinect

This new motion-sensing technology from Microsoft is completely, totally, STUPID!!!! There are various reasons for this. For one thing, it costs way too much. $150 dollars for just the sensor? I've seen similar sensors that go for about 20 bucks! I can see some people going for the Xbox 360-Kinect bundle, but it's really too much for people that already have the Xbox. Another thing is, it takes out the whole experience of gaming. One of the things we geeks like most about video games is that they require almost no physical activity, that I can shoot things without getting off of my seat. This is the reason many hard-core gamers passed on the Wii, because it was so... family-friendly, a bit too much. This is even worse. No controller at all this time, so it's just you jumping around in front of a screen. It's making video games into real games, and the best gamers really, really don't want that.

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