KN1GHTMARE
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So Mark Serrels over at Kotaku has played the XBOX ONE along with the new Kinect 2.0 and his assessment does not sound good.
While I will still need to play it for myself before ruling judgement, I'm beginning to lose optimism. We are a mere 2 months from launch and this isn't the first report like this I read which is worrisome. Granted they do still have some time left before launch, but with units already in product its not like they can improve the hardware. Is this even something a firmware update can fix? I guess we'll know more soon enough. Be sure to check out the article below since it goes into greater depth about the time spent with Kinect and Kinect Sports Rivals.
Source: Kotaku
I’m worried about Kinect. Mere months from launch it feels imprecise, temperamental and clumsy. On more than one occasion its voice recognition, being demonstrated by a Microsoft rep from the US with an American accent, needed three or four repeats of ‘Xbox Home’ to do what a single button press could have done in half a second. If Microsoft reps who have been briefed and have lived with the Xbox One for months are struggling to make everything work seamlessly, what chance does the average punter have?
And make no mistake, a device like Kinect — the device Microsoft is hellbent on shoehorning into our living space — must be seamless if the Xbox One is to capture the mainstream audience Microsoft is lusting after. In short: I have very little confidence in Kinect’s ability to respond quickly, efficiently or consistently and that’s an issue. But the major issue is this: if you want to purchase an Xbox One, Kinect is being forced upon you. You are paying extra for a device that, two months from launch, feels like a rough, unfinished product. You don’t have a choice and that’s problematic.
While I will still need to play it for myself before ruling judgement, I'm beginning to lose optimism. We are a mere 2 months from launch and this isn't the first report like this I read which is worrisome. Granted they do still have some time left before launch, but with units already in product its not like they can improve the hardware. Is this even something a firmware update can fix? I guess we'll know more soon enough. Be sure to check out the article below since it goes into greater depth about the time spent with Kinect and Kinect Sports Rivals.
Source: Kotaku