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Hoarding outside the E3 Expo in Los Angeles
Microsoft has moved to the high demand of land for its Xbox 360 line-up before the official opening of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on Tuesday announced details of its surface start to "Project Natal controlled movement in two different press events.
The software giant said that its motion-sensing camera expo delegates as Kinect be branded and will launch in November this year. Kinect able to simulate the movements of the body of a user to monitor a wide range of measures - a jump ball or throw a lightsaber swinging. You can also respond to basic voice commands.
The product launch is an attempt, the game more accessible and affordable for people who have no experience with traditional game controllers. It is an attempt, the audience of Xbox 360 gamers behind expand core.
Kinect ads come at a time, which is a Microsoft Xbox 360 shops in the middle of a transition. J Allard and Robbie Bach, two of the main architects of the 360, Microsoft had left. Bungie, the developer of Halo, taken on its own account and developed a new franchise Activision's multiplatform. And the sales growth of 360 is flat after several years of robust performance.
Although Microsoft has won the lucrative market for hardcore games - of mostly young, male players aged 18-35 - is the casual gaming market dominated by Nintendo that the Wii when it comes to tap growing Xbox 360 sales. You must be so in the face of competition from Sony, which has the same goal in mind for its PlayStation Move product.
Kinect Hardware (click to enlarge)
The Xbox 360 has a dominant advantage in the PlayStation 3 in North America and has done quite well in most English-speaking markets of the other. But behind the PS3 in many parts of Europe continued to fall and to fight in Japan. And Nintendo sold almost as many Wiis as Sony and Microsoft have their current generation of consoles sold combined.
An event on Sunday, which is exclusively left most visitors head scratching Kinect. It was an artistic, conceptual history, which roped in more than 70 acrobats of Cirque du Soleil and street performers for a technology demonstration Kinect. to open after two hours of waiting for the doors, turning, journalists, bloggers and analysts have been carried out within and without with white ponchos.
A pre-recorded narrator on how complex life has become, after humming five million years of evolution. Tribal Drums beat, an elephant puppet 2.7m whirled the stage, and circus artists resorted cartwheeled and clowned around.
"The history is rewritten," intoned the voice-over, if someone thought they had just witnessed the launch of an accessory for a video game. Microsoft also has a handful of game demos, the similar games you can already play on the Wii was launched.
Most journalists in the audience did not seem impressed, but places a product on E3 Casual gaming is a bit of play "as in Britney Spears to heavy-metal festival in Donington. The use of all technologies was banned at the event, but not deter Games journos and bloggers to tweets malicious hidden in their lifetime to send.
"Boys, take the poncho, called Kinect and Wii Sports. We already know," Ben tweeted Kuchera, gaming editor for Ars Technica.
But Microsoft does not care what the public thinks, traditional 360 Kinect. And: "Who for Central America, Middle England, Central Europe takes care of marketing of this mythical land living families, we think the product. (It is said that the first heads-up went to the event to" USA Today "instead of a big game websites or magazines.)
Its success will depend on how it is marketed, because they own Sony and Nintendo Wii can differentiate Move, as the games are good, and actually works in practice. The price will also be important. Microsoft has not disclosed the price, but the voices of the costs have increased to $ 150, which could pricy for casual gamers.
History is against Kinect (and Sony's Move, for that matter) was a huge success. Only a few devices that do not start with a console, as have the critical mass of users, the game sold well enough to justify the costs do they will get bundled.
It takes a real killer application, such as Guitar Hero and Wii Fit to push a new controller in the mainstream. Kinect Among the 15 games Microsoft has lined up for the start, only one or two can be a real killer application to qualify.
Until more people have Kinect technology in the real world is difficult to say how it works out. Initial reports suggest that is not clear how to move, but probably not needed for casual games. Judging from the demo, be Kinect in some games will work hard, even for people who are fit enough.
Kinectimals (click to enlarge)
Kinect The race barriers in sports and rafting Kinect Amazing is how players left in sweat after a session of 30 minutes. Discouraging work, if you dive in Halo 3 or Mass Effect usual two hours long. Soccer Moms, who spent moving for the amount of time vegetating in front of his junior console is probably the largest between Kinect fans.
But the biggest problem in individual Kinect is only the trivial first-party game from Microsoft for the technology. If one of the greatest of all Riposte catalog sellers of Nintendo. It is a clone of sports betting Kinect called Wii Sports - the marketing team deserves overtime for that name - and a response to Mario Kart Kinect called Joy Ride.
Kinectimals but is a simulator of cute pet for children, inspired by Nintendogs and Sony EyePet. It allows players to interact with the Tigers for about 40 children and other animals through their voice and body. You can use the little animal, scratched his ears and play tag, hide controls with them about the movement and their voices.
The technology also allows users Kinect Xbox 360 console interfaces with gestures and voice commands, making the system a little bit "more accessible to people who are not used to a video game controller would have operated to bargain. But this is a quite nice to buy a ground for a new gaming system.
This reporter will refuse to go out the window and predict that MTV's Dance Central is the killer application for Kinect, because it is the best example of a game that is better than for the direct control-less. The game is developed by Harmonix, the studio that designed the highly successful Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and the outreach will be obvious to anyone who has watched young people, in an arcade game "Dance Dance Revolution.
dance dance Unlike previous games, do not need a dance mat, Central or other controller. It uses whole-body tracking, so that players can do with their bodies dance steps together rather than alone with his feet.
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At the second press conference held on Monday, Microsoft has thrown a few scraps core gamer audience. It has unveiled a new streamlined version of the Xbox 360, which is for the same price as the current models retail. The top model includes Wi-Fi and a 250GB hard drive integrated. Microsoft says it will run quieter.
The company produced several films for the stunning new Halo: Reach campaign and called Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games' on stage for an impressive demonstration of the four-player co-op in Gears of War 3 Predictably, Microsoft showed some footage of Call of Duty Come and announced a deal that the full Call of Duty map pack add-on to see the 360 for the first time published.
It was getting a little 'coup of Metal Gear producer Hideo Kojima, for introducing the first video game for the next Metal Gear Rising. But, announced the only major new game exclusively for the core gaming market, codenamed Kingdoms, the by the developers of Crysis, Crytek has been developed.
In all, it was sufficient to satisfy the faithful, but not enough to excite. Your Move, Sony. - Lance Harris Tech Central