Kinect Will Be the Modern-Day Equivalent of the Atari 5200

Kinect started off with a video. It looked like it was off to a good start. But every single announcement related to the Kinect is just digging Kinect's grave. It can only have two players, your room has to be vacated, or else it would be a piece of ****, and it has a $150 price tag strapped to it. You may be wondering, how does this relate to the Atari 5200? Well, the 5200 was meant to replace the 2600, but it failed in controls, size, and price. Eventually, Atari abandoned the 5200, and they went back to making 2600 games. I predict that Microsoft will abandon the Kinect, and it will go back to the classic, regular controller. I swear, Kinect is going to be 2010's epic fail.

Dont forget that you may have to change your shirt or it might not see you, so much for the 3D infored light that graphs your body and can tell where and how far you areJ-WOW

Oh, right. I wonder how deep Kinect has dug their own grave....

2010 fail, no Microsoft will create a big enough hype machine to keep it afloat for the 2 months its out in 2010.

2011 on the other hand....

Yup and this has all been absolutely proved what with the Kinect being avalable and all--NO WAIT! [spoiler] it hasn't :P [/spoiler]

Dont forget that you may have to change your shirt or it might not see you, so much for the 3D infored light that graphs your body and can tell where and how far you areJ-WOW

And clear the area, stand far enough away, shave...

Bah. We'll get impressions soon enough. I know of at least a couple SWarriors buying :P

Yup and this has all been absolutely proved what with the Kinect being avalable and all--NO WAIT! [spoiler] it hasn't :P [/spoiler] vadicta

The camera that gets the dept as a resolution of 320×240 and gets only 30 frames per sec...

and you can't play naked EPIC FAIL

I have gathered all of this with the features, articles, and tech demos that are around here.

Yup and this has all been absolutely proved what with the Kinect being avalable and all--NO WAIT! it hasn't :P

vadicta

I gathered all of this from the articles, features, and tech demos being published.

and you can't play naked EPIC FAIL

spookykid143

Kinect started off with a video. It looked like it was off to a good start. But every single announcement related to the Kinect is just digging Kinect's grave. It can only have two players, your room has to be vacated, or else it would be a piece of ****, and it has a $150 price tag strapped to it. You may be wondering, how does this relate to the Atari 5200? Well, the 5200 was meant to replace the 2600, but it failed in controls, size, and price. Eventually, Atari abandoned the 5200, and they went back to making 2600 games. I predict that Microsoft will abandon the Kinect, and it will go back to the classic, regular controller. I swear, Kinect is going to be 2010's epic fail.

ichc1000x

I though you were talking Sony aboutto abandon the Sixaxis (see, rumble was so last gen) and return to regular controller with the old tech (rumble included now). Oh wait, I forgot that the Sixaxis was in the history book 2 years ago. Where have the Sony fanboys been? Didn't you fanboys declare the Sixaxis was so revolutionary that it would change the gaming world forever back in 2006? So, what has happened to it 2 years ago? As for Kinect, all of the Sony fanboys have pledged that you don't care, don't buy, don't post about Kinect anymore? And wouldn't you fanboys worry about the support for the Move? Since TGS 2010, Kinect has 7 new titles from the 3rd parties. Where is the support for the Move now especial from Japan's 3rd parties? It looks like Move will be a second Sixaxis one more time.

Haven't we already read about Kinect's future failure just about a few thousand times a week. Don't be so impatient, just wait the few weeks then you can make a thread about its actual failure. themyth01

no.

I think these topics should be created daily.

It only makes the stakes even higher.

If Kinnect does flop then Cows can feel validated all year round.

If Kinnect is successful...well there is definately a lot of reference material here for ownage.

One problem: Kinect is a peripheral to the XBOX 360. New control scheme to the same console. Atari 5200 and Atari 2600 are two different consoles. Comparison mostly thus void.wiifan001

Because Sony fanboys were so afraid to compare Kinect and the Sixaxis as the peripheries. However, the Sixaxis easily takes the cake because it was the biggest and the worst peripheral failure in the gaming history since it included in very PS3 but Sony somehow @#@% it up so badly. Now without 3rd party support again, Move is next to the Sixaxis in a museum somewhere on this planet.

Kinect is not replacing the standard controller, where in the world did you get that idea? Motion controls can't work perfectly with every game. If they did, the Wii would not support Gamecube and Classic Controllers for certain games. Even as motion controls grow in popularity, there will still be support for classic controllers.

Microsoft still supports the old 360 controller, and nothing has been hinted that they will ditch it completely for Kinect.

By the way, you're a little off about the 5200's history The 5200 was created in response to more powerful systems like the Intelevision and Colecovision that had emerged and were starting to nip away at Atari's control of the home video game market. What killed the 5200 was a lack of attention by Atari(they were still more focused on the 2600) and the fact that the console came out on the eve of the Video Game Crash. Honestly, the 5200 never had a chance to attact consumers. By the time the console released, the market was already faltering as it moved toward the crash.

If anything, Kinect is closer to the 32X, Sega CD, Famicom Disc System, and 64DD. Its an add-on for an existing system that expand the capabilities of the core system to do things that would not be possible on the ordinal hardware.

and you can't play naked EPIC FAIL

spookykid143

What!? Cancelling pre-order.

well I think alot of people are very scared of it being successful because of how outspoken they have been on a product they havent tried. Take it from someone who has tried it, its very fun, it will have a better launch lineup than MOVE which isnt hard due to the pathetic launch, and it is going to continue to grow and be tweaked. Lets stop using advertising as to the reason why its going to sell like hotcakes as well !!!!

First let me say I have no interest in Kinect, but if people on here think Kinect will not sell they are crazy. As soon as someone finds out I am into video games the first thing that ask me about is Kinect, or that Microsoft camera thingy. People are looking forward to exercising and dancing with no controller. Those two genres alone will sell the crap out of Kinect.

So people are just taking the tips for trouble shooting and making them the facts that you need to do to play kinect. I have no problems with the trouble shooting tips, it makes sense, if your in a navy blue room and you were standing in front of the wall wearing a navy blue jogging suit it might not recongnize you as well as it would if you were wearing something different, makes sense huh.

Most people will by kinect and use it as a way to browse their menus, as a camera(which is the reason I haven't gota camera for my xbox, I'm waiting for kinect.), and to play casual games with friends. If something really great ends up coming out for it thats great if not it will be neat for what its worth.

And complaining about the $150 price tag is kinda ridiculous, you have a $200-$500 console, if you got any GH or RB games you dished out $100 plus for the instruments and games, you pay $30-$50 a year for LIVE, if you wasted any kinda money on the super special additions of Halo, or COD, you can afford Kinect. If you want it or not is a different story.

Kinect started off with a video. It looked like it was off to a good start. But every single announcement related to the Kinect is just digging Kinect's grave. It can only have two players, your room has to be vacated, or else it would be a piece of ****, and it has a $150 price tag strapped to it. You may be wondering, how does this relate to the Atari 5200? Well, the 5200 was meant to replace the 2600, but it failed in controls, size, and price. Eventually, Atari abandoned the 5200, and they went back to making 2600 games. I predict that Microsoft will abandon the Kinect, and it will go back to the classic, regular controller. I swear, Kinect is going to be 2010's epic fail.

ichc1000x

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Kinect started off with a video. It looked like it was off to a good start. But every single announcement related to the Kinect is just digging Kinect's grave. It can only have two players, your room has to be vacated, or else it would be a piece of ****, and it has a $150 price tag strapped to it. You may be wondering, how does this relate to the Atari 5200? Well, the 5200 was meant to replace the 2600, but it failed in controls, size, and price. Eventually, Atari abandoned the 5200, and they went back to making 2600 games. I predict that Microsoft will abandon the Kinect, and it will go back to the classic, regular controller. I swear, Kinect is going to be 2010's epic fail.

monson21502

No controllers...no shooters....2p only.....no 4p bowling, 4p frisbee golf, 4p tennis, 4p volley ball, 4p raquet ball, no 4p anything. Lame to the hilt! MS you're stoopit!

Kinect started off with a video. It looked like it was off to a good start. But every single announcement related to the Kinect is just digging Kinect's grave. It can only have two players, your room has to be vacated, or else it would be a piece of ****, and it has a $150 price tag strapped to it. You may be wondering, how does this relate to the Atari 5200? Well, the 5200 was meant to replace the 2600, but it failed in controls, size, and price. Eventually, Atari abandoned the 5200, and they went back to making 2600 games. I predict that Microsoft will abandon the Kinect, and it will go back to the classic, regular controller. I swear, Kinect is going to be 2010's epic fail.

No way... The Atari 5200 had awesome games.. except you just couldnt play them because the controller was so terrible..

Kinect is going to have terrible controls AND terrible games

Quick show of hands for anyone old enough to actually have played a 5200? *raises hand*getyeryayasout

Did Atari have a better marketing team than Microsoft?

I prefer to call it a modern day Power glove. The ideas are similar and neither work well.

Atleast the powerglove made you look cool.

Kinect needs to have games that relate to it. Right now MS isn't being creative enough. You are the controler. Two arms for your sticks and slap yourself in the face and body parts for pressing buttons. Have on screen selection and it still is wack.