WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
>>747620471I remember after this launched people hacking them and they were actually pretty neat pieces of tech, but a dogshit idea for a replacement for a video game controller that you were going to bundle with every new console no matter if anyone wanted it or not.
>>747620471they wanted some of that nintendo money
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>>747620471Just like the Wiimote and DS4, it was dogshit on its own console, but a neat tool for hacking with.They wanted to get in on motion controls hype, but they didn't want to raise the lowest common denominator of Xinput that they had deliberately lowered back in 2005, so they shit out a new standard that didn't support what anyone else was doing.
>>747620471Playing the Wipeout game (anyone even remember that frickin TV show??) with this shit is probably the most 2010 thing I ever did in 2010.
>>747622859https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_in_the_ZoneThis is what I was talking about, not the more popular game named Wipeout. Also it was 2011. Sorry, my sense of time was shattered around then.
>>747621879This, they wanted that sweet Wii money.
>>747620471Waggling tech. Dance Central was the ONLY thing cool about this though. I still fucking want more. No, Bemani's Dance-a-Round doesn't count.
>>747620471>if we normalize having a camera on every TV with an internet-connected Xbox, we could collect tons of data on our users and sell it to third-parties!
>>747620471I remember people being vocal about the serious privacy concerns that having multiple cameras in your living room connected to an always online would raise. Thank God the younger generations are free from such worries, right?
>>747622561>>747621879>>747623171They got it. The year Kinect came out it was the best selling consumer electronic.Kinect was a success however you look at it, it simply didn't have a long life to last a second generation. Much like the Wii.
Why don't we have any good camera based games to teach dancing? No, beatsaber and the current shit on switch doesn't count.
>>747623707The core shit from the wii still lives on in joycons. The kinect is AWOL.Of course the great music game apocalypse of the record companies didn't help here.
>>747623761>The kinect is AWOL.Of course, if you're an idiot you'd believe this. Microsoft was not treating their platform seriously and failed to maintain it, much like they're failing to do with the guitar hero brand. Customers still want it.
>>747620471Dance Central was great at least.
I bought one to check out ghosts, but it apparently needs sorta a medium to large room. Only had a small room and couldnt get it to work right. I didnt want to see a ghost pop up in my room anyway.
I don't know, but I think Bill Gates has video of me playing Kinect Sports Season 2 while butt-naked, cock swinging.
>>747621210the kinect was awesome as anything other than a video game peripheral, any useable mocap needed exepensive studio setups before this shit hit the market, after the kinect any idiot could do basic mocap in their basement for the cost of the device which was practically nothing in comparison.
>>747623761>The core shit from the wii still lives on in joyconsThe core shit from the Wii still lives on in VR controllers, the Joycons are convergent evolution from Xbox slop.
>>747620471they used AI to program this thing btw
>>747620471>WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!Data collection.They mapped millions of peoples homes and faces with kinect, all that data was never deleted.Same reason facebook started as a CIA program.
>>747620471someone at xbox has a fat stash of footage of underrage people jerking off in their bedroom
It was cool tech, a shame no one ever did anything with it. If microsoft was smart they would have released a non videogame focused version
ive been laying star wars kinect and the dance game is unironically the best part of the gamealso doing those sexy feminine dance moves makes me feel things
>>747620471according to devs the release product that consumers got was completely different to the dev unit and it was completely stripped down to be affordable
>>747630051they did, the azure kinect. as usual they fucked it up and discontinued it
>>747620471>WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!They fucked up is what they didthey should've kept supporting itshit like LG is making BILLIONS in stealing your privacyMicrosoft could've got a cut in that shitthey fucked up when they dropped it
>>747629939we call that the CEO's private collectionpassed down from CEO to CEO
>>747620471It was really funny seeing the change of heart Sony and Microsoft went through when they advertised themselves as ''hardcore gaming systems'' thereby dismissing the Wii as not being a real gen 7 console only for them both to hastily turn to wagglan by 2010atleast Sony was smart enough to see wagglan was a fad and gave that shit up for the PS4 unlike Microsoft
>>747620471the technology was cool as fuck and actually worked, it just wasn't as much fun for games as they thoughtalso MS gutted their studios producing kinect slop instead of real games
At least kinect actually got used and supported and contributed to technical developments in science
>>747633340PS Move actually had good games that worked for it though
>>747633325the problem is that using something like kinect requires people to move, and most gamers would rather be slumped on the couch in a stoned haze cramming cool ranch doritos into their maw while gaming, not jumping up and down like a faggot circus monkey
>>747620471Israeli company using Microsoft vidya money for development of sensors for RAFAEL in israel. Unironically helped with development of Iron Dome.
>>747633340name me one Kinect game even half as good as Time Crisis 4
>>747622859Wipeout died for me when one of the two host dudes got the hot 'on-the-scene' hostess chick fired so that they could replace her with his charismaless chinese wife
>>747633390No it didn't. >>747633596TC4 was dogshit.
>>747634715>No it didn't.House of the dead OverkillKillzone 3Dead Space ExtractionKung Fu Rider was also fun>TC4 was dogshitit was alright, but more importantly it was more functional than any kinect game
>>747620471It's EyeToy but better. Kinect games are fun, but they are not a replacement for normal games.
>>747633596Kinect Star Wars
>>747620471https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHt6XVwauPc
>>747620471The kinect is a fucking amazing piece of technology. Video games just weren't the right application for it.
>>747635758kek
>>747620471When I was like 9 years old I was video chatting with some guy using this thing (couldn't see him) and he told me to show my penis so I did
>>747620471>WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!MOREWAGGLAN
>>747620471They wanted to make sure low-income households had access to mics
Child of Eden worked well on this
>>747620471Big Brother wanted a camera and mick in every livingroom, so they told MS to do this. Then they dropped it as they realised that mobile phones are far better for this: camera's, microphone and constant positioning using GPS and celltowers? The stazi's wet dream is now reality.
>>747623761The joycons are worse than a wimpUnless you're saying any device using gyro is a wiimote which is retarded
>>747623761joycons don't have the ir camera, which is why pointer controls on the switch feel awful compared to the wii
>>747624909I got mine just for that, $10 and I only needed to try 2 thrift stores.
At the time I thought they said the 360 Kinect was the best selling video game accessory of all time. Not counting controllers or memory cards.
>>747642692Probably because it shipped with every mid life 360 and all the launch models had a hard expiration date.
>>747620471I wish the Switch 2 dock had a kinect like camera built into it.
>>747620471Made me get a lot of tail back in the days. Bitches loved the dance dance game and the stupid shit of olympic something games.
>>747620471It's very funny to me that Kinect is directly responsible for Elite: Dangerous coming out.>Company that makes Elite gets sent to super shovelware hell in the mid 90s because they made Frontier: First Encounters/elite III and it's utter buggy shit.>Highlights include a thousand games nobody ever played: Fucking Dog's Life (pictured)>By pure chance make a really fucking stupid game about talking and playing with animals using the Kinect.>Call it Kinectimals>Becomes the keystone launch game of Kinect because they have literally nothing else for broad market appeal and it's Wii era so they're all about trying to get kids/mums to play.>Win some awards, get to see the fat cunt David Brabent accept the first award he's recieved since like 1990>Get enough money to actually think about making Elite again.
>>747645298oh I forgot to mention: They only got -some- money from kinectimals because it was the -one- fucking game they signed an awful publisher deal so they didn't get direct royalty, just bonuses. Hence why Elite: Dangerous was kickstarted, being the only crowdfunded space-themed game to not be stopped by the coffee machine or the sun. Still pretty mid though.
