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Develop 2010: Famed UK studio says Kinect will reduce technophobia
Read More »MS to make $1bn from Kinect in year one
Though opinion on the likely success or otherwise of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect camera remains divided, Caris & Co analyst Sandeep Aggarwal believes the camera could make as much as $1bn for the company in its first year on the market. Kinect could generate $2bn in incremental consumer spending on …
Read More »Big names set for GDC Europe
The organisers of GDC Europe have announced a string of lectures and talks for its 2010 event in Cologne. Rare’s Nick Burton and Blitz’s Andrew Oliver will deliver a lecture on Microsoft’s Kinect entitled: ‘Kinecting with a new audience’, while BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will deliver a …
Read More »Big names line-up at GDC Europe
BioWare to discuss Baldurâ??s Gate and Rare to talk about Kinect at Cologne-base conference
Read More »Best Kinect games still 2 years away
Microsoft’s ambitious new motion device – Kinect – will be out this autumn, but don’t expect to see the best games for it until 2012. That’s according to Gamesbrief founder and analyst Nicholas Lovell and Yoostar CEO Greg Fischbach, who say that developers need time to get to grips with …
Read More »Kinect: Core gamers want to sit down
Wedbush MD and analyst Michael Pachter has said Kinect’s biggest barrier to success is not its price or software – it’s that the Xbox 360’s core audience simply doesn’t want to stand up. I think that the biggest impediment to Kinect games ever being considered triple-A is that they require …
Read More »Microsoft downplays rumble loss in Kinect
Harrisonâ??s â??rumble is so last-genâ?? rhetoric returns
Read More »More core support for PS Move
R.U.S.E. will make use of PlayStation Move, Ubisoft has revealed at a press event in London. It is the latest in a line of products aimed at core gamers that makes use of PlayStation Move. It further backs up SCEE President Andrew House’ claim that Move will be ideal for …
Read More »Kinect POS pictured
Consumer site Kotaku is carrying what it reckons could be the first official snaps of the packaging for both the Xbox 360 Kinect and a console hardware bundle containing the device. Also pictured (as can be seen below) are two FSDUs that carry both hardware SKUs as well as the …
Read More »Will Kinect and Move arrive too late?
A succession of poorly-received software releases for the Nintendo Wii could have a negative impact on the success of the soon-to-be-launched Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move, according to one UK retail boss. Market results for the last two quarters have seen Wii sales severely decline,” ShopTo CEO Igor Cipolletta …
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