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I wish this was still an XBLA title. Can't say I'm looking forward to paying $50 for it.

So, where is your review??? In any case I'm getting it this weekend, so it's moot.

I think it's going to feel weird, not natural. You have to turn to the side while keeping your eyes straight ahead. I suppose you'll get use to it, though, and certainly it is intriguing enough make me interested in trying it.

Sounds like a good party game.

Yep, better tracking and lots of games we haven't heard of yet, plus extensive XBLA and XBIG announcements, including small, cheap games. 80 points and such. Basically, the kitchen sink.

I honestly don't know why I would ever use this. I'm sure I'll try it once or twice, but then? I'd rather be playing a game.

Good news, but I wonder how long it's going to take to get it out. I hope it's not going to be until 2012.

The question is will this make it into games any time soon?

That looks a lot better then the current TV mount, except I'm not sure how secure it is.

I'm going to put this on the wishlist, but wait for a bargain price. Sub $20.

Kinect Sports is a great game... but I have to say that unless I'm missing something, this DLC sounds like it should be free. Is it correct that all this does is give you some AI characters to compete against? What am I missing?

Am I the only person alive that still has absolutely no clue what this game is like to play? I look forward to the demo. I hope it sells me on it.

The original was Papi Jump, which was free (rather, still is). Doodle Jump made it look prettier but was basically a copy... and then they decided to try to take down other apps in the App Store with the word "Doodle" in their name, even though Doodle Jump wasn't even the first with that word in the name. Ridiculous. Lima Sky claimed this attack on other indie devs wasn't really their fault, but that's a bit hard to believe. I vote for not supporting these folks.

Ah, just checked the reviews on amazon (us) and they aren't encouraging. Sounds like to doesn't work nearly as well as the videos have implied. You character is choppy and has a kind of glow around them, the evaluation of your scenes is poor (says you were improvising when you were saying the lines), etc. Sounds like it will be worth picking up at firesale pricing, but not for full price.

This does sound pretty cool, but some of these - a lot of them actually - are movies I haven't seen and don't particularly care to. Spiderwick Chronicles? Um, OK. Also, I really hope that Clash of the Titans is the original and not that remake.

I didn't know what this was, but this does sound fun and like it would be awesome for parties and such. I might have to pick this up.

Good for them. Now they need to get more good games out. It's a common refrain, but a relevant one.

I wouldn't bring Halo to Kinect all. FPS aren't going to play well on Kinect and having them will just make Kinect look bad. It isn't for so-called "core" games at all. Let Kinect be what it is - a great casual games system. It might be useful for "augmenting" physical controls in a game, but I'm skeptical of that working for core type games that require precision. Forza 4's head tracking, maybe. I have to try it. What I want is a new Pinball Hall of Fame with head tracking for "looking" onto the playfield. That would be pretty awesome. Lean forward and to the right to get a good look at a shot with an upper right flipper. That kind of thing. It would feel natural and be genuinely useful. Aiming a gun in Halo? I don't think so.

I've got four controllers, but without the belt I'm not sure how you'd use this feature at all. Put the controller in your pocket? What kind of pockets do you have? Them's some big pockets.

It didn't exactly light up the critic charts when it was out for the Wii, and the Wii's motion tracking is superior, at least as it regards bowling, so I can't imagine this is any better on Kinect.

I can't figure out what this game is. It looks pretty. Hopefully it's more then just that.

I like this game, but that's the DLC? Costumes? Where's the downloadable tracks?

Brain Age was pretty good, but I didn't play it much. At least it wasn't $50. Of course this thing will hit the bargain bin before long and I might pick it up then.

Looks decent, but not of any use to me. I'll be more interested in the review of the TV Mount.

What developer, other then Microsoft for a little while, is going to sink any money into supporting a combination that so few people are going to have, and even if they do, are going to want to use together? This is a completely ridiculous idea. If they want to have a controller, they should just make one for Kinect.

For me, Super Freak is way more interesting then "current hits". YMMV. Of course, I don't actually own Dance Central, so my point is moot. I have been considering it, but all the top 40 hits are a major turnoff. One of the reasons I chose Dance Masters was because it wouldn't be subjecting me to the music I hear playing at the grocery store.

Unless there are some major improvements in accuracy, I can see this being infinitely frustrating. Plus it's unclear to me how you would release the slingshot since Kinect can't see fingers. So I really doubt it will support Kinect. Obviously it's going to come to XBLA, but not to Kinect.

Just think Kinect Sports sprint, but that's the whole game, but with your arms. Spin your arms and spin your arms some more. Woohoo! ;^) Ok, so actually I have no idea how they turned this into a game, but you can be absolutely positively sure that I won't be pre-ordering it. Who would, especially given that trailer that doesn't show anyone playing the game?

Is Kinectaku just presuming this is an XLBA title, or do they actually have info stating that? The blog post makes no mention of XBLA at all. So far all Kinect games have been retail discs, and so far there seems to not really be a way for XBLA games to be launched from the Kinect Hub.

Am I the only person that finds Kinect Sports' boxing completely unplayable? I punch and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other games in Kinect Sports work well, but not the boxing. What am I doing wrong?

Honestly, I can't tell how this game plays from that video. I look forward to trying out the demo, though. Definitely.

I like the idea of a Kinect SSX game, but I hope they don't shoehorn Kinect support into a game that wasn't designed for it. Unfortunately I suspect that's exactly what they're going to do.

We'll have to slog through the mud, but hopefully there will be good stuff mixed in.

Would love to see something like this for Angry Birds Mac. There's a Kinect hack app already on the Mac App Store, so maybe?

I will at least give it a rental.

I downloaded it, but haven't hooked up my Kinect to my Mac yet. Look forward to trying it out.

I'm wondering if they're going to have a problem using kinect since you are sideways to the cameras. I know it's 3D, but it still seems like it isn't ideal for tracking your swing. Or is this not correct?

I want to see ESPN3 let me, at the very least, have access to my favorite sports when in Kinect mode. You can still access them using a controller, but via Kinect you get a much more limited version of ESPN3 and far fewer choices of things to watch.

Unrelated to Kinect, ESPN3 desperately needs to save your place in on-demand events when you quit. Trying to watch a cricket game is painful as it stands now, unless you do it all in one sitting.

8 million to retailers, but how many actually sold to consumers? I'm sure it's still a high number, but it would be lower then that. How much lower is the question. In any case it's good news. Hopefully this will spur 3rd parties to produce (good) games for it.

Very cool. I hope some of these hacks end up on Xbox Live Indie Games. Why not? I'd pay a $1 for something cool like this. Fun at parties.

I'm curious about the "head tracking" in Forza. What exactly is that going to do? As somebody else pointed out on another message board, if you look to the left you'll see... the wall? You're turning away from your TV screen. Head tracking of that sort makes no sense whatsoever.

It stays in recognition mode for a while after you first say Xbox, so for example, you can go page to page by saying, "Xbox next next next next". It's very slickly done, but we did run into the problem today that it doesn't recognize my 9 year olds voice well. It works flawlessly with mine, but not my kids. My 8 year old hasn't tried yet, but I don't have much hope. I hope they'll improve this in an update soon

I really don't envision wanting to playing PC games with Kinect. I'm a lot more interested in the hacks/non-games.

The fact that amazon is discounting all Kinect games $10 already and it's not shown to be a sale, doesn't seem to bode well for Kinect game sales and perhaps the sensor either. They said 2.5 million have sold, which sounds good, but that's still only a fraction of the Xbox market, let alone the Wii market, and one wonders how many of those purchases were from people hoping to sell for profit rather then actually use it. I hope it's a big success, because it's such cool tech. I want to get it, but am worried it might prove to be a long term flop.