Kinect - Anyone get it yet?

[Fhqwghads]

I'm interested in hearing from people who've bought this and toyed with it, first impressions, etc. I have a vested interest, so to speak.

[Shalyn]

Me too...
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/content/...rBurnsVest.gif

...but really, I'm interested to know if this works well for the dancing and such.. and this *may* be moved to the gaming forum?

[Moosey]

I tried it at the mall a couple months ago. The concept is really cool, but I found it to be pretty inaccurate(playing a bowling game). It was a disappointing experience. The dancing game I saw seemed like it tracked your movements better though.

[Jefe]

Check out DSP, he's going to have a bunch of videos like he did w/ the Move:

[Insanecyclone]

Giant Bomb has been playing Kinect games for an hr or so now

http://www.justin.tv/giantbomb#/w/523280960/2

On Sonic Riders right now.

All the games are terrible like Move launch games are. Will defiantly be a year or so before anything worth buying it would seem.

[Pikarya]

Needs more Japanese hentai-rape simulators.

[vrumpt]

i've not heard 1 good thing about this system yet. I really hope it crashes and burns.

[izembo]

ive heard the opposite, lots of good reviews and feedback from people. this is actually playing with it myself and getting feedback from customers

[Correction]

Good feedback from people, but so far the reviews I'm seeing tell me that if you have up until now been perfectly content to play your 360 games with a controller, the Kinect adds absolutely nothing to your 360 experience (can't even control Netflix with it), and the quality of the launch date shovelware does not justify the investment.

Also, apparently you need a living room the size of a football pitch to play with more than one person at a time. Pretty much rules out anybody who lives in an apartment, or games in a perfectly arrayed room already.

[Riposte]

Any "good" rating review for these games is done with someone who isn't comparing it to a videogame.

[Kaisha]

the Kinect adds absolutely nothing to your 360 experience (can't even control Netflix with it), and the quality of the launch date shovelware does not justify the investment.

Probably only going to see shovelware/party stuff for it because Kinect reserves 60mb of the system memory for itself. I doubt the AAA devs want to slash a lot of their game's resources just to accommodate that in their software.

[Pikarya]

60 of 512mb is very little of a footprint. Also if I recall, it only uses now single-digit percent in terms of processor/idle power compared to double digits before it was optimized.

I'm not siding with the Kinect in anyway, as I will never buy the accessory for my 360. But there's still a lot they can use with it in terms of power if they wanted to. What, you don't want to see Party Babyz II for the Kinect?

[Kaisha]

Last I checked the 512mb is shared between ram/gpu.

[Riposte]

IR look at Kinect. Pretty cool.

[Katlan]

It's too much of a hassle from the looks of it. Lighting conditions, 6-8 feet away from the device, needing to remove any table / desk's, ect... Sounds like more of a pita then it's worth. Id want excellent hardware reviews for something that requires so much of an investment. Not only that, general consensus is that it often has a delay

[Tekki]

Has a ton of potential. I'm excited for the potential, more so then the launch of the product. I'd like to see publishers get on board within the next 6 months or this is going south. The technology is spot on, software shaky, but again it could go far.

M$ is sending me one, but if I wasn't getting a free one, I'd still want one in the near future.

We'll see how this plays out.

[Jefe]

LOL

[Miragemaiden]

Has a ton of potential. I'm excited for the potential, more so then the launch of the product. I'd like to see publishers get on board within the next 6 months or this is going south. The technology is spot on, software shaky, but again it could go far.

M$ is sending me one, but if I wasn't getting a free one, I'd still want one in the near future.

We'll see how this plays out.

Agreed.

So far I've heard pretty good reviews, but I'll see for myself by tonight or tomorrow. Either way, I'm still excited to see how Dance Central is.

[Merovingian]

lol at the $40 mount.

[Pikarya]

Laughing at him for just buying it. Because center surround speakers don't have wall mounts integrated.