Meh. I watched some of the E3 link today and saw a guy showing bits of it; seemed like it’s just a matter of waving your hands around to control a cursor on the screen and speaking as you would to a particularly challenged child in order to do something you could do with your thumbs in a fifth of the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a bloke in the back with a controller to make up for it not working properly. I did turn it off before the game demos, but I can’t see them being anything to write home about – this motion technology is all well and good, but it’s just not going to cut it. Until we can be jumping, running, fighting and shooting our way around our living rooms with our bodies fully replacing the versatility offered by joypads, even improving on it, it’s all nothing more than a fad to attract people who aren’t really gamers.

Doesn’t seem all that great to me really. I know Microsoft is pushing it. But who actually WANTS to play a game where you have nothing in your hands at all? I mean, motion control is one thing. But no controller at all? That might work in sci fi movies, but in real life people like to use their hands.

I mean, think about it. We only use 3 senses while we play anyway: Sight, Hearing, and Touch. The Kinect is asking you as a gamer to throw one of those away. Bascially discard 33% of how you experience a game. For… what?

One thing good I will say about it is at least it is innovative. You take a look at Sony’s Move and it looks almost like an exact copy of the Wii. At least Microsoft is trying something different. But nothing to touch? How is that BETTER exactly?

Here’s what Microsoft needs to do. They need to give up this “let’s not have any controllers” nonsense, and instead blend the best of both worlds. They need to give a game player (I’m talking a GAMER, not your grandma) something to hold and shoot with in a FPS, like a fake plastic gun or whatever. Then you need a multi-directional treadmill to stand on. The Kinect could sense your direction of fire and when you melee or do other odd tasks. Then when you can finally play Halo or Call of Duty by actually running and shooting to match a guy onscreen, Kinect will be good as gold. (Throw in 3D functionality and gaming will have finally reached something worthy of belonging in the 21st century!)

But as it stands, Kinect blows. And I know it is “cool” to be knocking something new. But I really think it is a piece of crap. And unfortunately if I turn out to be wrong and it’s a surprise hit, then it is kind of a lose-lose situation. Because look out! Then here will come a crapload of shovelware, just like we’ve got on the Wii.

Of course, all the launch titles for Kinect look like crap anyway. But what else would you expect? Kinect is not made for actual gamers. It’s like the Wii, which primarily caters to little kids and old people who bought one just to keep up with the Joneses.

i think it will be like wii at the begging and then i think they will make it awesome like u can play all kinds of game on it