Microsoft Kinect and Xbox 360 compatible issues
The highly anticipated Microsoft Kinect launches this November, but many issues have been raised over the compatibility it will have with older Xbox 360 games. Massive titles like Call of Duty and Halo will not be avaliable on the Kinect as they have been dubbed “controller games”, due players getting the maximum possible experience by playing the game with a hand held classic controller. Microsoft unfortunately has no plans to make existing 360 games compatible with the Kinect, to the huge disappointment of many users.
Instead the Kinect will be released with 16 exclusive games which include sports, fitness and dancing. Also confirmed for release are Fable 3 and a very interesting looking Star Wars game which has yet to be named. Follow the link to Xbox.gamezone.com for a full article on some of the Kinect’s features.
The price of the Kinect has not been confirmed but it is likely, according to retailers such as Amazon and Gamestop that it will be selling for around $150. The pricing structure has been said to be very important, especially due to the current economic environment. What do you think about the compatibility issues surrounding the Kinect? Let us know.
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Really? A huge disappoinment to "many" gamers that MS is not going to update past games with Kinect technology? Come on. Really? And where exactly did you pull your numbers and come to the conclusion that this is an issue. Really? I think you should rephrase your article title to "I wish MS would make old games use Kinect.", because there are no compatibility issues with the Xbox 360 and Kinect. Geeeez.
Agree 100%, the title was very misleading and the only reason I read the article. Big disappointment!
Actually, the reason MicroSoft ain't going to update the older games is due to all the extra coding, the money it takes to pay all the people DOING the coding would offset profits, thus making no money for the MegaCorp that is Microsoft
Seriously though I don’t believe many people had these excpectations for the Kinect at all. Are there any sources to actually back up the statement that this is a “huge disappointment” for “many” gamers?
It's already pretty obvious that from now on there are going to be two types of games released for the Xbox 360.
Good games that use the controller, and crappy games that use Kinect.
Kudos to the posters here. Taking the words right out of my mouth. In the end, either MS will bend to the majority here and make more games either compatible with Kinect, or create more games for Kinect that appeal to the primary demographic. Dont think either will happen. As such, I am forseeing an epil fail in the making, and will pick up my Kinect next year for $29.99, (when its just another useless peripheral, like the plastic guitar, the dusty "MS visioncam", or the external HDVD drive.) Whoever is behind the marketing of this device (MS's Ryan Moore I believe) should be fired. Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot. It's like the guy said " Lets create a peripheral that only appeals to people essentially outside our platform (Wii gamers), and, lets make without any games that actually appeal to our core audience. Oooh, and lets make it expensive too." Dirrrrrrrrrr!
Either a developer can spend all their time redoing the code of old games, cutting graphics to free up resources for the Kinect to run, as well as shoe horn Kinect controls into a game not designed for it……..or the developer can just use that effort to develop brand new gaming experiences built around Kinect.
I'd rather play a new game designed for Kinect controls than replay Modern Warfare 2 with half-assed controls.
I have no problem with that..I didnt expect for old games to be compatible with the 360 and anyone who did expect that is living in a dream world..Obviously the old games wont work, hence the reason they are creating all new games DUH! Im not disappointed one bit..I knew what to expect and I am completely happy with the kinect..Anyone who cries because OLD games arent compatible need to get over it. Im so sick of people crying over the dumbest things
To be fair if people don’t do the research they may buy this expecting to be able to play all of their game, there are some sites that state that you cam play all 360 game. One such site is gamestation.co.uk that says "Kinect turns you into the controller enabling you to play like never before! You can play all your Xbox 360 games with Kinect and access all the media on your console with the wave of your hand."
totally agree with that the kinect is way too advanced for all the old games any1 who thought it would be backwards compatible is a dumbass
Umm, when Microsoft announced Project Natal, they specifically said it would be compatible with all Xbox 360 games. Now they changed their minds and said it won't. Evidently they've also been having huge problems with the system's accuracy, meaning players have to use large, slow movements in order for the system to register them correctly. When this thing was first announced, I was excited to get it. Now it seems like a total joke. I'm not paying $150 for a handful of cheap, Wii knock-off games.
They said "It will be compatable with all Xbox 360s" NOT GAMES
They won't add pointless control patches to games that are already out that would be stupid, the future will be adding the capability to look around corners in MW2 etc but you can't just chuck a patch on to do that.
Move is having patches bolted onto certain games but that will not change the game itself in anyway at all other than the control system, if you have Killzone 2 imagine using Move to control EH what exactly ? there is nothing in the game that would use move in any good way, totally pointless.