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Yes, the S console has a dedicated Kinect port on the back for power and data, but if you want to use it with the old style 360, then it needs one USB port for data and a mains socket for power. -
I love the guy who shows up in the background at 0:35, reminded me so much of David Brent's dance in the OfficeOriginally posted by Richie_uk View Post
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Am loving mine!
No issues in a dark room - only a small lamp in the opposite corner for illumination.
Adventures is great considering it's a free pack-in. The disc also has demos of Dance Central, Joyride & Your Shape.
No issues setting it up and it's cool watching it auto detect your face and follow you around!
Also, voice recognition is brill. No trouble getting it to do as it's told!!Comment
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I think MS may be on to something with Kinect. My good lady saw a TV ad for Kinect last night and was amazed by the concept. Now she isn't scared by a controller as many non core gamers are but the instant appeal is something that reminded me of people seeing the Wii in action for the first time.Comment
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The strange thing about that, is that the concept is nothing new. Anyone who has seen or used an Eyetoy should not be surprised by what it is doing.Comment
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If you're interested, here's what the Kinect is actually putting out:
That's the main difference between it and the eyetoy. The eyetoy is passive, whereas Kinect is scanning to see how this pattern that it's chucking out comes back to it's other camera.Comment
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i'm sort of tempted by this but then read the logical if you think about it bit that the taller you are the further back you have to be from the screen, at 6'5" I'd have to stand outside my lounge I thinkComment
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Yeah the technology may be different under the surface but the *concept* is exactly the same. Controlling a game via a camera.Comment
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In the same way that the Gametrack was the same concept as the Wii....Comment
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The what now? I'm not looking to get into a heated debate here - people were saying that Kinect could be a big hit because the concept is intriguing to the non-gamers, I'm just saying the concept is old hat. (with a lot of marketing behind it to make you forget that fact.)Comment
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The concept was barely explored beyond a cleaning window mini game, hardly makes it any less worthwhile.
It's Certainly just as worthwhile as another first person shooter game or another JRPG or just another games console.
That's besides the point that there are obviously things that kinect can do that a webcam flat out could never do.
The 360 was old hat, using a controller to control a game, I was going that in the 80's!Last edited by EvilBoris; 05-11-2010, 08:59.Comment
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Hardly.Originally posted by EvilBoris View Post
Most of the Kinect games have been done on the EyeToy years ago or on the PS3 Camera like Eye Pets, its nothing new at all.
Yep or Virtual Guitar/Quest for Fame, on the PC back in 1993 was the same concept as Guitar Hero .....God I remember Craig McLachlan playing that on Bad Influence .In the same way that the Gametrack was the same concept as the Wii.
Seems Some times, concepts are too advanced too much ahead of their time, for their own GoodComment
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Kinect stripped to pieces, check out its tech:
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Just showed this to the wife, not gonna have any issues shelling out for this at all now ;o). Might treat myself to a 360S with it !Originally posted by Richie_uk View PostComment
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Kinect will likely be the final nail in the Wii's coffin. I've got this feeling that all those non-gamers will abandon the already sort of declining Wii for this. At least in the United States this will be THE Xmas gift, and Dance Central its killer app.
In Europe, not so much perhaps. But it will win the UK I'm sure? I mean I always see crud like Just Dance topping the charts there.Comment
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