Xbox Kinect

What is it? Is it similar to the Nintendo Wii? Does anyone know much about it and is it worth a purchase as a replacement for the Wii fit?

it's a wii without the control. it uses a camera that detects all your body movements. so basically you are the control. heard from loads of people that its bollocks though and that playstation move works much better.

The Kinect system does work really well, although you do need to be a fair bit back from the camera in order for it to properly map your movements. not just motion control either, there's a bunch of other stuff like facial and voice recognition I think. Don't think there's any good games for it yet, just the usual stuff you'd expect to see on the Wii, but if developers put in some effort, then it could be pretty damn good.

so to sum up. it's a gimmick that will wear off pretty soon

I dunno if I'd say it's a gimmick that will wear off pretty soon. The Wii is still going strong years later, so this and the PS Move will likely be the same. Both MS and Sony have the chance to do what Nintendo failed to do though, and that is to use the technology for more than casual gaming, which if they're successful could become the blueprint for the future of gaming.

Kinect is obviously the most advanced of the three motion control technologies available, but at the price they're selling for just now, I'd say it's not worth your while. Maybe once the price drops it will be a worthwhile investment, but I definitely reckon it's the sort of thing you should take a wait and see approach too rather than jumping in as soon as it launches.

The wii is not going strong. I bought one a few years ago and sold it a week later because it was so terrible.

So its not going strong cos you dont like it?

Kinetic uses a camera ontop of the TV and instead of using a controller you do movents with your body, but as pointed out already, you need to be a fair distance away from the TV for it too work (so for me it's back to the Wii as I don't have the room for it).

The Playstation Move on the other hand uses a Wii-mote like controller, but to make it more accurate it has a motion capture ball ontop (although I don't if this is more accurate than Wii Motion plus as nobody is mentioning that).

The thing that annoys me about all these Wii like stuff that are coming out is the games are more adult like and surely i'm not the only one thinking "why couldn't they have released that on the Wii with poorer graphics?" as i'm tempted to get a PS3 with move just for that game called FIGHT which is a bloody, violent and more adult version of Wii Boxing.

On the other hand though atleast we get more multi-platform games instead of everything being only X-Box 360 and PS3 or stupid kiddy crap and party games (plus we get ,ore adult Wii games that use the Wii Mote such as UFC Fitness trainer).

BTW There is two Wii games that come with a camera and work just like the XBox Kinetic (Raquet Sports and Your Shape, both by Ubisoft) and they both have not been very successful, but that could be just because they are better Wii games in that genre (ie, Wii Fit).

The PS move is more sensitive than the Wii

Does that include Wii Motion Plus as that makes the Wii Mote alot more accurate so I hear?

Dunno

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