It wasn't even that long ago, but there were people who thought this shit is the future of gaming, lmao
>>748974029after how much the wii blew up, can you blame them?
>>748974173Wii had actual controllers with buttons
>>748974203so did xbox. i still see people play kinect at conventions. it's classic.nex playground is apparently pretty fun. it's sort of kinect/eyetoy console
>>748974029indeed. Microsoft mistakenly thought gamers would get out of their chairs and move while gaming
>>748974327>so did xboxWhat? Kinect didn't have any controllers and buttons.
>have a surveillance camera pointed at you at all timesIn a way they were right about this being the future.
>>748974029it was only hyped up for the first few months until people realized that no good games were going to be made for it.
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>>748974029The tech inside is legit, devs just had no idea how to use it. Actually competent programmers have found other applications for it these days, it's decent for full body tracking in VR.
I'll never forgive them for fucking up Steel Battalion so badly.
>>748974672>VRanother forgotten flop
>>748974741Yeah, what kind of retard designed that controller?
>>748974029it still is. once gta 6 fails companies will give up on AAA cinematic woke action rpgs, team based competitive online games, and ai remakes and go back to focusing on fun gimmicks.
OH SHITMICROSOFT JUST KIDNAPED YOUR AI FAMMILY AND IS HOLDING THEM HOSTAGETHEY ARE FORCING YOU TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE KINECT GOOD, or atleast acceptable productSHIT, FUCK, QUCIK, FIGURE SOMETHING OUT
>>748974029kind of useable as a jank vrchat tracker
>>748974029>Just like most motion controls it found niche use outside of the consolecuck ecosystem until it was replaced with a better solutionI don't see the problem? The 360 and Xbone were always the problem, not the Kinect.>>748974770Still has more of a future than Xbox.
>>748975272uhhh uhhh, make it record players even when the xbox is off and put ads in games that makes you shout the advertisers name to skip it.
>>748974029Wii and Kinect were the precursors to VR
>>748974029>there were people who thought this shit is the future of gaming, lmaoMicrosoft and microsoft alone.That launch day Giantbomb stream was the best thing that came out of it.
shieeeeet
>>748974029Honestly, it had a pretty nice API when I was working in an AI lab in college
>>748974029>there were people who thought this shit is the future of gamingliterally nobody thought this other than the marketing teams shilling that idea
>>748974029>>748974173The Wii was in a clear sales decline in the West by early to mid 2009, and never even really was that big of a hit in Japan. It was a fad that for some reason everyone convinced themselves would be around forever. See also Guitar Hero.
>>748975490The Kinect was pretty cool for poorfag motion capture. But how many people need to do that? And it wasn't great as a game input device.
ayo hol up
>>748974029It was 16 years ago. That's longer than it took to go from sega genesis to xbox360.
>>748974741Just imagine it with in VR with the Index>Get hit>Have to reach over the chunky salsa next to you to get to the ammo
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Kinect proved definitively that total motion control is a utopian concept. You need some input device on your body. Like a glove with a few buttons or something.
