Isildur´s Heir
Avenger
- Joined
- Dec 21, 2002
- Messages
- 19,493
- Reaction score
- 1
- Points
- 31
I´m surprissed, i really am, the reviews are better than i thought (i mean the games, not the peripheral).
And it will be a sucess, i can see it now.
Why?
Because of MS biggest asset, their checkbook; and, in turn...the morons, or if you want, weak minded people.
I don´t want to offend anyone that bought Kinect (or is thinking about it) as there are always exceptions, but that´s exactly the target audience of Kinect (of course, i don´t mean kids that want one).
MS Modus operandi is the buy everything up (hence their checkbook being their biggest asset), from exclusives to timely exclusives, to timely DLC to...people´s affection.
Oprah, Ellen, Time Square, Justin Bieber....that´s exactly that, to buy consumer´s "love", and they know that sucess sells for the weak minded (if something is a sucess, i want one).
They even go to the ridiculous of giving prizes to the crowd lining up in Time Square; or giving free copies of Kinect Sports, Kinect Joy Ride and one-year subscription to Xbox Live Gold for the first 3,000 Kinect buyers....who said people don´t have a price?
Remember Tim Burton´s Batman, the Joker´s parade; this is the same thing, only MS is not the Joker.
I said it once and i say it again, of all motion controls, Kinect is the best...at least, the one with the biggest potential.
Will it live up to it?
Personally, i doubt it...i really doubt that Microsoft cares enough, so, this is as good as it gets.
Kinect is made with a specific target audience in mind and that audience just wants to jump around, so, i don´t see MS trying to make it more than it is, the E3 showed exactly what Kinect would be, and quality was not their main goal, money is.
Maybe in the next gen, when Kinect 2.0 gets released we will see a better product
With the all buy of Canesta, i see, in years, MS looking at the future, which is great for the company, but, until they get rid of the bad seeds, i really see no future for the company.
Ballmer, Mattrick and Phil Spencer need to go...fast.
Back to Kinect.
The reviews are fairly good, not the best, but good nontheless, and with PS Move starting to have bad reviews on games (The Fights, a game that should have been perfect, as awful reviews), i see it selling pretty well.
Now, if you ask me, what would i buy between PS Move and Kinect, i would say Kinect, in a heartbeat.
First i already have a Wii (it might be better, but at this point is nothing more than a glorified Wii), second, Kinect look better.
Even so, i will probably get the PS Move as i´m planing on buying a PS3 at the end of the month, and there is a good chance i´ll buy the Move bundle (the price is not that big of a diference).
And it will be a sucess, i can see it now.
Why?
Because of MS biggest asset, their checkbook; and, in turn...the morons, or if you want, weak minded people.
I don´t want to offend anyone that bought Kinect (or is thinking about it) as there are always exceptions, but that´s exactly the target audience of Kinect (of course, i don´t mean kids that want one).
MS Modus operandi is the buy everything up (hence their checkbook being their biggest asset), from exclusives to timely exclusives, to timely DLC to...people´s affection.
Oprah, Ellen, Time Square, Justin Bieber....that´s exactly that, to buy consumer´s "love", and they know that sucess sells for the weak minded (if something is a sucess, i want one).
They even go to the ridiculous of giving prizes to the crowd lining up in Time Square; or giving free copies of Kinect Sports, Kinect Joy Ride and one-year subscription to Xbox Live Gold for the first 3,000 Kinect buyers....who said people don´t have a price?
Remember Tim Burton´s Batman, the Joker´s parade; this is the same thing, only MS is not the Joker.
I said it once and i say it again, of all motion controls, Kinect is the best...at least, the one with the biggest potential.
Will it live up to it?
Personally, i doubt it...i really doubt that Microsoft cares enough, so, this is as good as it gets.
Kinect is made with a specific target audience in mind and that audience just wants to jump around, so, i don´t see MS trying to make it more than it is, the E3 showed exactly what Kinect would be, and quality was not their main goal, money is.
Maybe in the next gen, when Kinect 2.0 gets released we will see a better product
With the all buy of Canesta, i see, in years, MS looking at the future, which is great for the company, but, until they get rid of the bad seeds, i really see no future for the company.
Ballmer, Mattrick and Phil Spencer need to go...fast.
Back to Kinect.
The reviews are fairly good, not the best, but good nontheless, and with PS Move starting to have bad reviews on games (The Fights, a game that should have been perfect, as awful reviews), i see it selling pretty well.
Now, if you ask me, what would i buy between PS Move and Kinect, i would say Kinect, in a heartbeat.
First i already have a Wii (it might be better, but at this point is nothing more than a glorified Wii), second, Kinect look better.
Even so, i will probably get the PS Move as i´m planing on buying a PS3 at the end of the month, and there is a good chance i´ll buy the Move bundle (the price is not that big of a diference).
Last edited:
