Chemgear: I have a computer job and I day-trade, I spend enough time on my PC.
At least a console I can lie down on the couch and use it.
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Originally Posted by Kerplunk
There is a fair bit of difference between including a hard drive and including a Kinect. One allows the developers to store and retrieve more information faster (which almost every application can use), the other is essentially a specialized input device (which comparatively has fewer uses). Due to the nature of the Kinect as a movement based input device, the need to have it standardized is fairly low.
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Under the context of the OLD Kinect, I'd agree with you.
Kinect 2.0, no. Developers will be expecting that a Kinect unit will be available for use, and there's a big push to have Kinect involved with gameplay in some way, shape, or form; whether or not the player needs to interact directly with Kinect is a different story and is up to the developers.
I was pretty thrilled as soon as I heard that the new Kinect was able to do things like detect heart-rate. This is me speculating on the potential uses of the technology, but just imagine a zombie game where the game knows how the player is reacting to changes in environment and mood.
Using the Kinect 2.0 to determine physiological effects on the player, they could increase the game's intensity by adjusting the lighting, music, aggression of attackers, background noises, etc. The potential to make games that adapt to the player on this kind of level, making them more immersive, is huge.
"We want this part of the game to scare the hell out of someone... oh, they're not responding... let's just unexpectedly kill the lighting over here and add some blood-curdling noise to make their hair stand on end, oh and make the zombies movements more aggressive, I want the player to pee themselves in fear"... and it can be done dynamically. That's what excites me about this. The potential is there to make the game respond to you, no two playthroughs would be identical.
As someone who always wanted to be a game developer, I would kill for that kind of ability.