Microsoft: Kinect Competitor Would Be "Super-Challenging" To Develop

[Jared]

Thats if anyone wants to compete with it...yhery gotta see how seuccessful it will be first

 

[Antari]

Famous last words ... before a visit to the unemployment line.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Not possible for another company to replicate Kinect...?

Ta-daaaaaaa!

 

[xavierxenon]

Hey guys, remember the eye-toy? And the DS voice recognition? Combine the too and you have Kinect. That wasn't "super-challenging" now was it?

 

[tlozoot]

Cool technology means nothing unless it's applied well - not something I can say Kinect has sold me on as of yet.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I laughed at the fact that he used "super-challenging". How about we take a lesson in vocabulary and improve our choice of words a little bit next time?

C'mon dude, he's like, totally serious here.

anc[is]Microsoft thinks nobody else can make a product as good as Microsoft's? OMG -_-

Hard to imagine coming from the company that boasted the Zune.

I'm pretty sure he is pretty serious about this stuff. Seriously.

 

[CrashBang]

Riiiight... It doesn't matter how complex the technology is if it doesn't produce decent games. I don't care if someone manages to create a 'complex' machine which can turn poo into rocks. That's impressive technology, alright, but I still don't give a shit

Not possible for another company to replicate Kinect...?

Ta-daaaaaaa!

I lol'd my balls off at this

 

[DiscoAtThePanic]

In related news, it would be harder to invent something worse than poop.

 

[mogamer]

Who in the hell would be dumb enough to copy this soon to be "clearance bin" device anyway?

 

[JaymesFogarty]

Wait, what? But Kung Fu Live on the PS3 does exactly the same thing using the Eye. What can Natal, (I'm not calling it by that bloody stupid name) do that the Eye, and even the Eyetoy can't?

 

[DragonChi]

They shouldn't be quite so smug about Kinect without seeing just how well it does on the market. They would feel pretty stupid if not enough people buy it if it fails. It's my guess that it wont do as well as they think it will.

Also, they are daft to think that there aren't other companies who can do it better. I can think of one....i think they are called..NINTENDO?! In fact..I'm counting on it.

 

[Jeronus]

Yeah... uhh Microsoft before anyone tries to replicate Kinect. IT HAS TO BE SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH TO WARRANT IT. Am i the only one who thinks Microsoft is setting themselves up for a huge fail? Seriously, they are already bragging about how no one else will be able to copy their technology before it has become successful enough for anyone to even care.

 

[Tactyk]

Of course, what the MS guy is really talking about is the software inside the machine to make sense of all the data it's getting. Keeping different people separated when they cross in front of the camera, etc.

That all said, I tend to agree that the real question isn't "Can anybody copy this" but rather, "Does anybody want to?"

Yes that wonderful software that is playing merry hell with the third party developers
Glad he's proud of that mess

"does anybody want to?"
HAHA
my thoughts exactly

I read the title and said "who would want to?"

 

[Credge]

Wait, what?

Move isn't a competitor to Kinect?

 

[Omnific One]

I agree with Zahtzee on this one. Controllers should be about minimizing the amount of movement from thought to action on screen. The only thing I will supposed it having full 3D environments all around where you can be completely immersed (which is damn near impossible). Then movement based motion control might work.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Does anyone else lose confidence when Kinect's creative director can only emphasize the product with the word "super?" [sub]And I bet he thought Gamer was the inspirational movie of a lifetime...[/sub]

Considering the holes in Kinect's applicability for anything more advanced than Petting Zoo 360, I think the most "super-challenging" feat will be trying to make it worthwhile and actually functional in games like Gears of War, Fable, or Halo: The Money-Grab Reiteration. Otherwise, what value does Kinect hold over a Wii or Move without any decent Kinect-specific games? Is the next marketing ploy going to be "Kinect motion-sensing: the next generation of tea-bagging!" to draw in Xbox Live subscribers?

 

[Shawn112]

1st of all Microfeces came up with this same bullshit public relations scam when informing us that DX10 couldn't be ported to XP.

They were proven liars then, and I suspect the same now.

2ndly, I have yet to see any reason why anyone would bother to copy it.