Bear in mind that early previews are ALWAYS somewhat positive. Look at games in the past that early on had mostly positive previews but then the actual reviews came out and they were slammed. Plus rumors are abound that MS is paying off some bloggers to be more positive about Kinect but as it stands right now, preorders are very low.
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/dancecentral/news.html?sid=6267554
And I doubt any Sonic fan would go out and buy a $150.00 peripheral for a Sonic spinoff game. Even if Kinect is functional, no one sees it either A) winning over the "hardcore" Xbox 360 users or B) sucking the market the Wii already has a four year head start on.
It's funny now that these previews are trying to be positive when there were so many articles in the post-E3 wake talking about how it didn't read movements sitting down, couldn't support more than two people, etc.
And even in another thread where we polled "What Sonic game do you want the most?" no one selected "Free Riders." And that's understandable with a great retro reboot and what could possibly the first truly great 3D Sonic game, as I said none of us want to go spend $150.00 on an overglorfied eyetoy that will probably only end up having as many games as the 32x did just to play a Sonic spinoff. That isn't to say down the road they'd port it. I wouldn't mind seeing a version that works with the Wii Balance board. I actually had some fun with some of the Balance Board games with Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics.
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