This is an interesting quote from ex-Nintendo first party developers, Rare (now wholly owned by Microsoft) about taking Wii Sports on with their Kinect sports game.
“In terms of the competition, we looked very carefully at Wii Sports. We didn’t shy away from it – we actually attack it head on, if I’m honest. We looked at Wii Sports and, okay, if we were going to do this better, how much further can we go with this and will the consumer see an obvious improvement?” – Rare’s creative director, George Andrea.
Though his honesty is refreshing, it wouldn’t be the first time you could accuse them of taking a page from Nintendo’s book. Just look at the similarities between Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing, Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie etc.
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Filed under Corporate, Developers, Interviews, News, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation, Sony & Microsoft by on Aug 4th, 2010. 1 Comment. 
Following on from the post earlier where Microsoft claimed that Kinect offered better value than Wii or Sony Move, infamous games analyst Michael Pachter seems to agree with us that it probably doesn’t.
For new Xbox gamers the bundle is pretty good value, but for those of us who already own 360′s, the Kinect stand-alone price seems pretty high. What do you think? let us know in the comments.
“We disagree…and think that standalone Kinect, at $149, is not as good a value as a standalone Wii at $199, which comes with two games (instead of one) and a much deeper library of content. On a bundled basis, we agree that Kinect plus the Arcade 360 is a compelling value, at only $100 more than a Wii bundle, but with the deep library of Xbox 360 games available, plus a robust multiplayer experience and the opportunity for value added Xbox Live services.”
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The main person responsible for the design and creation of Microsoft’s Kinect, Kudo Tsunoda, has told Nintendolife that he doesn’t see his new peripheral as a successor to the Wiimote because “there’s just so much more that we can do with our technology”. That maybe true but at least you don’t have to stand up the whole time you’re playing it!
“There is a promise in the Wii that is very hard to deliver in any kind of controller-based stuff. Even their very first E3 demos that came out – and you’re playing tennis, and everybody’s up and you’re going like this and you’re playing tennis and it’s awesome, look at that! Anybody who watches those things getting played, you’re just sitting here doing your little thing like this [does small movements with wrist]. That’s how controller-based games are played. Nothing against the Wii, because I like playing the Wii, I like Wii games, and it’s a great system, but I do think there is some unfulfilled promise there…
Read more on Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda Talks Wii, Kinect…
Filed under Corporate, Developers, Hardware, Interviews, News, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation, Sony & Microsoft by on Jun 24th, 2010. Comment.
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