Even more proof that Kinect will not be successful.

Nobody is going to tidy their room in order to play a game O_O'

What about people who don't have perfectly square rooms? Not everyone lives in America, some of us have shitty little houses with weird floor space

More reason why the average videogame player should not buy the kinect.

Logan Westbrook:
Kinect's senior program manager Mark Plagge said that Kinect uses the "floor plane" as a point of reference, and any mess or clutter can present a problem to the sensor. Kinect also won't work quite right if the lighting in a room is uneven, as moving from a bright spot to a darker spot can make you look slightly different to the device, making it harder for the cameras to follow you.

Seriously? Do Microsoft think will all live in perfectly square rooms with absolutely no sofas, chairs or tables and halogen lights on all the walls?

So wait... lets say your XBOX is right next to your TV (I assume your sensors will be near the TV as you know, that's what you're facing whehn you play the game), and you happen to have surround sound (so a center channel and your two front channels will be causeing issues...) You just.... can't play well because you HAVE to put the sensors right about wherey our speakers would go? What if there's a couch behind me? Will the sensor fuck that up? What about my table?

And just to re-iterate my point about some cock at Microsoft saying that the Kinect will be the most sold concole ever: FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!

really, microsoft keeps fucking itself over

and then they want players to buy kinect, HA.png

Verlander:
What about people who don't have perfectly square rooms? Not everyone lives in America, some of us have shitty little houses with weird floor space

this. Added to that their 'ideal expected room layout' had all the furniture on the opposite wall from the central TV in the UK an awful lot of homes have the TV in a corner and not everyone has all the furniture point at it.

It needs a lot of space, I don't know how big the average floor space of an American living room is but I can see that being an issue for a lot of people in several countries.

My living room is long and narrow with a stupid dogleg going right at the end for what used to be a dining room someone knocked through. My furniture points at the coffee table in the middle not the TV which is in the corner and I'm not rearranging that for a console. Move works okay in that space but it looks like I'm not getting kinetic any-more (kinect is a stupid name, my spell-checker auto-corrected it).

The Kinect has seemed like a bad idea for a long time, and now it gets worse. Especially since the average consumer (the target audience) cares mostly about the price, and who is gonna throw down $299 for the console, $150 for the Kinect, and put up with errors and glitches when anyone who cared about motion controls already owns a Wii.

008Zulu:

Logan Westbrook:
Kinect's senior program manager Mark Plagge said that Kinect uses the "floor plane" as a point of reference, and any mess or clutter can present a problem to the sensor. Kinect also won't work quite right if the lighting in a room is uneven, as moving from a bright spot to a darker spot can make you look slightly different to the device, making it harder for the cameras to follow you.

Seriously? Do Microsoft think will all live in perfectly square rooms with absolutely no sofas, chairs or tables and halogen lights on all the walls?

Celtic_Kerr:
So wait... lets say your XBOX is right next to your TV (I assume your sensors will be near the TV as you know, that's what you're facing whehn you play the game), and you happen to have surround sound (so a center channel and your two front channels will be causeing issues...) You just.... can't play well because you HAVE to put the sensors right about wherey our speakers would go? What if there's a couch behind me? Will the sensor fuck that up? What about my table?

And just to re-iterate my point about some cock at Microsoft saying that the Kinect will be the most sold concole ever: FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!

Verlander:
What about people who don't have perfectly square rooms? Not everyone lives in America, some of us have shitty little houses with weird floor space

I know guys, let's all exaggerate what they said to the point where it becomes obscene, then comment like that's exactly what was said. That's what all the cool kiddies are doing these days right?

It said large amounts of clutter can confuse the sensor, not a couch or chairs. It also said vastly differing levels of lighting. Which would be more like leaving the blinds on one window open during the day, so half the room is in daylight and other half is not.

OT: I don't really see Kinect being a success. I do hope they return with a better controller + motion control setup with the next console, as it has potential but right now the motion sensor only seems pretty much limited to cheap party and mini games only.

GeneticallyModifiedDucks:
Even more proof that Kinect will not be successful.

Nobody is going to tidy their room in order to play a game O_O'

Damn straight, even Wii Fit isn't that dictatorial.
Plus, how are you supposed to play Kinect when you've got large amounts of friends round?

So they want sweaty man children to physically excercise AND have a tidy room? That's like asking a hippy to shave and go to work.

Oh well, then kinect can suck my PC Gaming cock. 'Nough said.

manaman:
I know guys, let's all exaggerate what they said to the point where it becomes obscene, then comment like that's exactly what was said. That's what all the cool kiddies are doing these days right?

It said large amounts of clutter can confuse the sensor, not a couch or chairs. It also said vastly differing levels of lighting. Which would be more like leaving the blinds on one window open during the day, so half the room is in daylight and other half is not.

You have not seen myapartment living room then. I have a large coffee table I'd be pushing to the side, and while I have a couch behind me, and two reclingin chairs to either side. if those are caught in the sensor, how will it distinguish "Large object on the floor space" and "Large pile of smaller things on the floorspace"

Again, in terms of noise, my TV's volume comes FROM the TV. If I set my center sensor on or below the TV, how will it affect gaming?

I'm not exagerating anything, it's the way my room is set up. But you know, thanks for not assuming

You can't help but feel sorry for all the people who worked on this. 2 weeks after release, they'll probably need to find different jobs.

Some of my family have Wii's and that is their exact set up. When they brought their Wii to our house I had to move my bed to get everything correct.

So, it requires the same thing the Wii does in my mind.

It might be worth parents buying it just to get their kids to clean their rooms.

Such a picky device. Yup, this'll cause problems for most gamers, I'd imagine haha. Who has time to clean their room when they have all this gaming to get done. But ya, I see this being as successful as the eyetoy.

I saw this on the Spotlight on XBL yesterday, and just kinda face-palmed.

DURR you need to clean your room for it to work properly. Its a camera that tracks you and your motions. If you have clutter, its gonna mess with the calibration. The fact that they have to make a video telling you everything that will be written in the instructions manual, all of it being common sence kinda stuff, just makes me sad in general.

I can has use brain?... Garden of Eden better be worth me chipping away my 9 month old gym sock pile and empty Pizza Boxes /stereotype

You need a tidy, equally lit room?
Another nail in the fail coffin

uppitycracker:
Such a picky device. Yup, this'll cause problems for most gamers, I'd imagine haha. Who has time to clean their room when they have all this gaming to get done. But ya, I see this being as successful as the eyetoy.

This exactly lol^

Having a controller device that is so fussy is not going to make people happy, especially with such a high price tag. If anything, it might end up encouraging people to stick to the Wii or get PS Move.

Theorhetically, even if I wanted and was interested in Kinect, it would be respondedto with a resounding "FUCK. OFF." if it asked me to clean my room just to play it.

I don't see the point in these motion-based gaming systems,as Yahtzee said, the controller has always been a perfectly good means to connect man to game via thumb and now they're asking meto not only move around and be (Le gasp!) physical, but to clean my room as well!?? Cleaning my room would be a elephantine task as is, but to get me to flail around like a retarded bird that fell out of it's nest afterwards? Well, fuck you, motion controls, fuck you in the arse.

Finally! A reason to use my extremely well-lit, empty white room!

Don't judge me and my messy room, Kinect!

Maybe they'll release a patch to fix this too..

Even if I did tidy my room I still wouldn't have enough space to move around. Kinect also requires big house!

I'm an extremely clean individual.

I keep my room tidy, but not excessively so.

It's why the ladies love me.

Microsoft Kinnect, Playstation Move, Nintendo Wii, it seems like game companies are using motion sensor gimmicks to attract casual gamers and a new audience of people of all ages.
I was just fine with games before all this bullshit. The Wii has ruined more then on game that would have been great on the GameCube. Kinnect is an overpriced experimental failure, and from what I've seen Playstation move is ripping off Nintendo so bad I'm surprised lawsuits have not come up yet. I can't wait for the day when all this shit goes away and we can get back to real games.