Rare: Go have a go at Kinect

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Rare continues on with their very public campaign for Microsoft's Kinect through development director Nick Burton. After debuting their Rare Kinect Avatars, he's now encouraging gamers to "go and have a go on Kinect, period."

While skeptics have been circling overhead the motion controller since it was officially unveiled, Rare has been consistent in expressing support for it, saying that those doubts will be erased as soon as gamers get their hands on Kinect.

"Until people play Kinect, and they play it for more than a couple of seconds, which is unfortunately what you get in the trade shows... But you know hardly anybody's getting a chance to play it."

He furthers, "It's one of those things you've got to have what I call your Kinect moment, when you realize... And we see this, we saw it at gamescom and E3, people go, 'Oh, it's way better than I expected. It's way more high fidelity than I expected."

Watching demos of Kinect in action on videos, or simply reading about it, simply just doesn't communicate the experience as authentically as when you yourself are trying it out. And as mentioned above, he doesn't mean trying it out for a few couple of seconds.

While Sony has admitted that they're not expecting too high of Move's first day sales, Burton is confident that hardcore gamers will be lining up for Kinect when it launches in November.

"You watch the Live leaderboards when these things come out. There will be people... We'll be there going, 'How the hell have they gone that fast?' or 'How have they got that big score?' That will be the hardcore doing that."

I'm waiting to see what rare will be able to do with kinect, might be interesting

Source: QuickJump

 

[RupeeClock]

Of course Rareware are going to say this, they've developed Kinect Sports and have a lot riding on Kinect's success or failure.

They've already alienated one of their most dedicated fanbases, to the point that they disbanded.
http://mundorare.com/news/2010/07/mundorare-closes/

 

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Of course Rareware are going to say this, they've developed Kinect Sports and have a lot riding on Kinect's success or failure.

They've already alienated one of their most dedicated fanbases, to the point that they disbanded.
http://mundorare.com/news/2010/07/mundorare-closes/

that reminds me, i really need to replay CBFD one of these days...

 

[Bladexdsl]

of course rare are saying this or is it m$ holding the puppet strings making their mouths move

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

The fact that a company can go so rotten that its no 1 fan site closes must say something about Rare and who its associated with, just think where Rare would be if it was still owned by Nintendo

 

[Range-TE]

Rare started to suck when the people that brought us DKC [and banjoo?] left them
or at least i started losing faith in them at that point.

oh well, i'll go try kinect at my cousin's house who i know will buy anything M$

 

[spinal_cord]

I already waved my arms about in front of my ps2 eye-toy. It was fun for about 5 minutes, the the complete lack of tactile response ruins most games.
There is no way in hell that I'm going to pay the price of a second console just to wave my arms around for 5 minutes then get bored.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

The fact that a company can go so rotten that its no 1 fan site closes must say something about Rare and who its associated with, just think where Rare would be if it was still owned by Nintendo

Just as defunct? Rare died off because it died off, not because Microsoft was the cancerous scourge of video gaming. If Nintendo saw massive potential for them they would've, you know, kept them. It's not like they made anything good after the N64, unless you want to count that Conker remake.

 

[SnAQ]

Im so sad i never got to finish Donkey Kong 64, that was a truly awesome game.
To bad it´ll never get released as WiiWare/Virtual Console

 

[JackDeeEss]

"go and have a go at Kinect"
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Heck no, I've already got a wii.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Im so sad i never got to finish Donkey Kong 64, that was a truly awesome game.
To bad it´ll never get released as WiiWare/Virtual Console

Rare has nothing to do with DK64 not being on VC, Ninty owns Donkey Kong not Rare, hence why the Rare made Donkey Kong Country games are available. I think its due to the fact that N64 games are hard to emulate on the Wii