From Wii to Kinect 2.0, the rise of motion-controlled gaming has delighted casual players but often dismayed hardcore gamers. As Microsoft attempts to win over the enthusiast crowd with this week’s Kinect Sports Rivals, Red Bull look back at the best (and worst) that motion gaming has to offer.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
Cultured Vultures: "Sadly, not all hardware is created equal, and no matter how much developers might try, some gaming hardware just fails to hit the mark. We’ve compiled a list of 10 gaming hardware fails, and boy did some fail hard."
I would label the Power Glove, Kinect, and that Tony Hawk skateboard more as hardware addons hardware failure would be like the Virtual Boy and one day Stadia.
The picture should be the 360 RROD. When I think of gaming hardware failures that's what springs to mind. Kinect and it's bundled price tag definitely hobbled the already underpowered Xbox One though for sure so I would give it a close second place.
Lol I had the Atari Jaguar, surprised its "competition" the 3DO isn't on the list too, both as "popular" as each other.
Stadia is a weird one. It hasn’t sold at all well but in terms of how it works it’s still miles ahead of Xcloud in terms of stability and performance. Xcloud is still a way behind and that needs sorting but it will be in time. Stadia for me is one of those things that will go down as a what could have been moments. With better marketing it could have been a roaring success. I still play it and it remains the best place in my opinion to play CyberPunk 2077. Only platform I have played it on without having any issues at all. The tech is great. The concept is fine. Marketing terrible. Shame really.
The Xbox One was Microsoft’s Nintendo Wii U. Undercooked, undersold and just an unholy mess. The thing is with any of these failures is to learn from them and thankfully both Nintendo and Xbox did just that to the benefit of gamers everywhere.
Nintendo could be sitting on a gold mine with a past favorite.
Because we all miss accidentally throwing our Wiimotes at the TV, so let's throw some Joy-Cons.
I was always confused by Nintendo’s decision to kill the franchise. “Super” stayed with Mario titles even after the Super Nintendo. They can still use the Wii name. Hell it’s been so long that releasing a new one, or even an HD remaster, will tap into that nostalgia market.
Yeah i agree but i don't think Nintendo will be bringing wii sports to the Nintendo Switch samething goes for diddykong racing
Sports Champions. End of story.
I knew they wouldnt mention Killzone 3. Give some credit where due.
Yeah...I try to act like Free Riders doesn't exist and the two before it were the only ones. Free Riders was terrible. Unresponsive "controls", no CGI cutscenes besides the opening, and difficult af.
The author never played Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, No More Heroes 1/2, or Sports Champions 1/2, I take it?
Best use of motion controls in a standard controller-based game, in my opinion, goes to Warhawk's sixaxis flight controls or inFamous: Second Son's graffiti mechanics.
Is that shoulder deformation in Game Party for real ? Shame, shame, shame.