Kinect Will Be the "Biggest Platform Launch Ever," Says Microsoft

[Slythernite]

I don't think that this is going to be a good launch at all, people who like to swear at me on Call Of Duty aren't the kind of people who would be into this kind of stuff.

So, like, all of them.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

And they're super-cereal about it, too!
Given Microsoft's last famous launch and the pursuing issue of hardware failures, I think I'll pass.

okay, no. Just... no! Are you shitting me Microsoft? did you actually say that seriously, someone get me a glass of water so I can do a spit take. You wanna know why there hyping this ***** up? because they put all there eggs in this one basket, if it fails they have nothing left to give people. See if Move fails, Sony still has like a billion other games that aren't related to move they can sell you. If Motion Plus failed you had plenty of games that didn't use it on the Wii. But Kinect? if Kinect fails that new Steel Battalion and PDO wont mean shit because that's all you can play it on!

My thoughts exactly. Microsoft is so heavily vested in this project that they've dug themselves a grave and can only keep digging until they reach light. I can safely say that I'm one of those who would rather see all of that money put towards new IPs that make the 360 actually worth a damn.
Today I rented Reach and I realized that by the looks of things, it's as good as it will get for my 360. The 360 is taking the name "Microsoft" too literally: Small software. Where are the good games that do not require a $150 peripheral and arm flailing?

They're completely forgetting that those interested in motion controls probably bought a Wii. 360 users that really wanted motion controls could just buy a Wii as well. But what about the people who just have a 360 or a 360 and PS3? I don't think that part of the consumer base is "super excited" for super-special-superness of controller-less motion control.
[sub]Good thing I bought a PS3 recently enough... whew![/sub]

 

[Treblaine]

Kinect Will Be the "Biggest Platform Launch Ever," Says Microsoft

"the biggest launch we've ever seen."



Spencer said in an interview with Eurogamer [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-17-microsofts-phil-spencer-interview]. "Given all the momentum that I see and the way we're investing, I'll bet this is the biggest platform launch ever."

"We have 15 launch games - few consoles have shipped with 15 launch games," he said.

Spencer said "I don't want to get ahead of ourselves,"

Hey Spence...

[HEADING=1]IT IS NOT A NEW PLATFORM!!![/HEADING]

Xbox 360 launched 5 years ago! THAT is when you should have done your launch games. This is just a bleeding peripheral!

With talk like this I wonder how many people will buy a stand-alone Kinect, plug it in, and wonder why it won't work or why there is no video-out cable...

And please don't draw attention to Kinect's 15 launch titles if Nintendo Wii four years ago launched with 21 and is currently retailing for little more than the peripheral alone.

Microsoft are going to be utterly screwed if Nintendo rolls out a Wii price cut... something around $99 to $129 would fulfil Molly Wood's (of CNET's B.O.L) prediction that Kinect would get overshadowed by something else.

 

[Sebenko]

Microsoft are going to be utterly screwed if Nintendo rolls out a Wii price cut... something around $99 to $129 would fulfil Molly Wood's (of CNET's B.O.L) prediction that Kinect would get overshadowed by something else.

Actually, that sounds like something Nintendo could easily do. And then I would high-five Nintendo.

Dunno how to high-five a multinational corporation, but whatever.

 

[Treblaine]

They sure have been treating it like a console. The terminology, the launch, the games, the price. So why do I have to buy an X-box in order to play this thing like it's some dependent symbiont? Yeah, like these peripheral add-ons have been so successful in the past, like the Sega 32X. Anybody remember those?

Microsoft is going the way of Sega.

(at least Nintendo had the decency to repackage the Gamecube in a new chassis and with a new name before clawing success from the jaws of failure with a motion-controls revamp)

 

[Treblaine]

Microsoft are going to be utterly screwed if Nintendo rolls out a Wii price cut... something around $99 to $129 would fulfil Molly Wood's (of CNET's B.O.L) prediction that Kinect would get overshadowed by something else.

Actually, that sounds like something Nintendo could easily do. And then I would high-five Nintendo.

Dunno how to high-five a multinational corporation, but whatever.

I'm banking on it, it is the one potential silver lining to this whole Kinect mess is with Nintendo getting some closer competition they are likely to knock the price down a bit.

(as to high-five write an email/letter... these creative types get so much hate mail and death threats it is depressing and shameful (Hideo Kojima got it worst). If you're grateful and appreciative, just let em know and you'll make them so much happier in their job)

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Kinect Will Be the "Biggest Platform Launch Ever," Says Microsoft

"the biggest launch we've ever seen."



Spencer said in an interview with Eurogamer [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-17-microsofts-phil-spencer-interview]. "Given all the momentum that I see and the way we're investing, I'll bet this is the biggest platform launch ever."

"We have 15 launch games - few consoles have shipped with 15 launch games," he said.

Spencer said "I don't want to get ahead of ourselves,"

Hey Spence...

[HEADING=1]IT IS NOT A NEW PLATFORM!!![/HEADING]

Xbox 360 launched 5 years ago! THAT is when you should have done your launch games. This is just a bleeding peripheral!

With talk like this I wonder how many people will buy a stand-alone Kinect, plug it in, and wonder why it won't work or why there is no video-out cable...

And please don't draw attention to Kinect's 15 launch titles if Nintendo Wii four years ago launched with 21 and is currently retailing for little more than the peripheral alone.

Microsoft are going to be utterly screwed if Nintendo rolls out a Wii price cut... something around $99 to $129 would fulfil Molly Wood's (of CNET's B.O.L) prediction that Kinect would get overshadowed by something else.

To be honest, Nintendo doesn't even need to make a price cut. Once people realise they need to buy a console to use Kinect and then see a Wii that does a similar thing for a lower price of a Xbox bundled with Kinect, they will just buy a Wii.

 

[Flamma Man]

This will make it all the more hilarious when this thing bombs.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Biggest launch... and flop.

 

[vanthebaron]

hahahaha no it won't. A: its an assessory and B: its stupid

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

Micro$soft just stop pulling these stunts and saying stuff like "The Kinetic is like a MILLION WIIMOTES!" or "BIGGEST LAUNCH OF ALL TIME"

Honestly, I think M$ is infected with Molyneaux-Flu

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

Kinect? What?

I haven't even HEARD of this thing.

That aside... this isn't exactly a hungry consumer market.

 

[Atmos Duality]

It was the biggest platform launch....nearly 4 years ago when Nintendo did it.

Good grief, first Halo Reach, and now Kinect...it feels like they're switched from hitting us over and over with the Hype-Stick, and instead have taped the thing to the end of a jackhammer.

 

[Jumplion]

"We have 15 launch games - few consoles have shipped with 15 launch games," he said. "And there are some things we can take advantage of - the fact the 360 is a platform people know, so the technology involved in putting a game on the platform, connecting to Live - those are things that developers have become adept at."

Quality > Quantity.

And so far, the quality of said launch titles look [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/8/87209/1405440-kinectimals_box_large.png] like [http://www.xbox360250gb.net/xbox-360-250gb-kinect-joy-ride.jpg] poo [http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/P12969100.jpg] poo [http://www.usposttoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Kinect-Sports.jpg] pancakes [http://www.kinectxboxfc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Kinect-Adventures.jpg] or [http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/your-shape-fitness-evolved-box-artwork-kinect.jpg] Wii [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jgrTcTOFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg] fitness [http://gry-top.pl/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/deca_sports_us_large.jpg] ripoffs [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BLyuHT0jL.jpg].

That's a lot of Wii fitness ripoffs.

As you can tell, I am extremely skeptical, not of Kinect's hardware, but of Microsoft's bastardizing the product's marketing.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Biggest something, but the word I think he was looking for was flop. Yes, that's it.

 

[steamweedlegoblin]

Those are some serious predictions there.

Now, I predict that when this thing bombs I'm going to laugh myself to death.

 

[dishwasherwong]

These guys need to stop hanging around with Peter Molyneux.

 

[getbonus]

He may be right, if you exclude every major Nintendo console and portable, likewise for Sony, maybe Genesis, and whatever else.

 

[asleep at the comp]

Microsoft Kinect should be called "Microsoft Hype"... It's full of it, so full that the Hype surpasses the capabilities of Kinect. *retarded clap*

yes we must avoid Microsoft hype and wait for them to realize reach was their best launch ever

 

[Quantum Star]

Whatever you say Microsoft. Whatever you say.