First, Microsoft claimed that they believed the Kinect would outsell the iPad, meaning they could move 1 million units in 28 days.
Then, just yesterday, Bloomberg News reporter Dina Bass claimed that Microsoft executive Don Mattrick told her the company was expecting to sell 5 million Kinects by the end of the year, making it the …
A selection of game machines which fell so hard that they’ve become cautionary tales for the entire video game business.
With the launch date less than a month away, hings have been kind of quiet surrounding the imminent arrival of Kinect for Xbox 360. Microsoft announced it last year at E3 and used this year’s edition of the high-profile video game trade show to let attendees sample the games for themselves. Yet, there’s been yawning chasms of silence …
It must be fall.
Microsoft is prepping a new Xbox Live update that will launch just before Kinect hits the market on November 4. Back in June at E3, Microsoft demoed the ESPN channel and that will launch alongside the new update. Aside from that and all the Kinect shenanigans, here are 8 “under the hood” features:
• Improved voice …
Right about now, hordes of crazed Japanese gamers are storming the Makuhari Messe convention center, where the Tokyo Game Show happens every year. The show opens to the public on the weekend and most of the major publishers have rolled out their big announcements. Want to know the TGS news that excited us the most? Keep scrolling.
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Look, we like Kudo Tsunoda and the former EA Chicago studio head probably has access to numbers and data that we don’t have. But, we have to wonder about the assertions he makes in this Gamasutra article. The relevant parts:
“The preorders have been really strong. As far as what we’re looking at for Holiday, this is going to be stuff
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A very real-looking video of the Xbox 360’s dashboard interface has apparently leaked to YouTube. This overhaul’s most likely in adance of the Kinect launch, as you can see a dedicated pane for games that will you Microsoft’s motion-control camera. Other changes …
Fable III will be out in a few short weeks. Peter Molyneux’s been barnstorming for the game for the last few weeks and I had the chance to chat to him about the next chapter of the action-RPG series. But the man responsible for the upcoming threequel also answered my questions about the missing-in-action Milo project that got folks …
And so it was written: all motion-control platforms must have a game that demands you flail wildly into the air to knock out an on-screen opponent. Wii Sports‘ Boxing starts this mess in the current console generation and we’ve already seen The Fight (formerly called Motion Fighters) for Playstation Move in its early stages.
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Hot on the tails of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and PC announcements from Gamescom comes news from the Xbox 360 team – Kinect will launch November 10 in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Those of us in the United States of America will get it a week earlier on November 4. That’s great and all but we’re not getting Windows …
After weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced pricing for Kinect, Kinect bundles, Kinect titles, and availability. Oh, and there’s a new Arcade model on the way, as well.
A stand-alone Kinect sensor will retail for $149.99 when it launches November 4 and will include a copy of Kinect Adventures. A revamped 4GB Arcade …
According to Kotaku, the technical specifications for the Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have been outed by a British retailer. Here’s a list of what all is in there and what that stuff can do:
Sensor
Colour and depth-sensing lenses
Voice microphone array
Tilt motor for sensor adjustment
Fully compatible with existing Xbox 360
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