2010 brought a lot of new products to the gaming industry, but none have sparked more speculation then Sony and Microsoft’s forays into the motion control business. Attempting to capitalize on the Wii’s success, Sony’s Move controller, and Microsoft’s Kinect motion camera have been released, with hopes of finding a foothold against Nintendo’s sales behemoth. While they found a level of success, both devices have some work to do in 2011.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars debuted in 2011, and later updated for modern consoles. However, it's the PlayStation 3 edition that stands out.
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.
now that they are out...lets get them going in the right direction.
Anything that gets fat, lazy, uninhibited gamers off their ass and gets them motivated and moving is a plus and a win. I wish all hardcore games would die out and turn into nothing but short burst casual experiences for the family and for fitness/dance. It is highly detrimental to youth's health that they put perspective before desire.
I am all for motion gaming -- Kinect, Move, wii and anything else someone wants to throw into the mix to divert consumers away from Call of Duty, Halo, GTA and so many other pointless games.
From reading the article, it looks like it is time for M$ to call it a day, pack Kinect up and go home. The reading the article I conclude that the only reasons Kinect has better than the Move is because the Sony big hitters like Socom , LBP2, and KK3 have not been released yet and M$ spent $500mil on an advertizing campain to fool the public.
Sounds like I've heard these same points raised some where before.
He also said "The future of the Kinect is a bit murky, however, with the software receiving poor critical reception, and Microsoft’s core fan base expressing concern over the controller’s supposedly limited, casual only, application."
So the future of Kinect depends on 20 or 30 critics, not the f*ng 7+mil sales in 8 weeks. K-sports has sold close to 3mil copies in those 8 week (6 EU). Dance Cental almost 2mil. I think the software is not a problem and is in fact the reason for the sales. The core gamers who buy Kinect are not buying it to play HALO or GEARS. They are buying to play those "supposedly limited, casual only, application."
In conclusion this article is a fanboy's perspective and not a fear and rational look and where each peripheral's truly stands in their battle to out do the Wii, which I might add is a casual control device.
Bingo.
What is funny about the article is that the claim that the "reviews" for both Move and Kinect are supposed to make a point.
Move gets "great" reviews but Kinect gets "murky" reviews. Your article uses a source that was on November 5th about Kinect reviews. Um well, it is over 60 days now. How is does the climate look now? Clearly reviews do not make or break what is going to happen. Not everyone hardcore or casual read reviews. Me personally I do give a sh*t about someones opinion when I already know the majority of reviews do not cover most of the games strength and weakness to even take that person opinion seriously.