Does anyone feel the death of the kinect?

Smartglass works well for recording game footage.

:)

 

Does anyone else feel cheated

When you puchase something - you agree to the price at the time, and that this is worth it is probably something you considered carefully.

Like for any product - you can eventually find a campaign for the same product.

As consumers we have to be aware of this.

So many on forums tell how they rather buy digital for Xbox store - even knowing they pay silly prices compared if to buy retail.

Doing that they agree to the terms and prices when a purchase is made.

But very common today to have return policies in retail - so you have 30 or 60 days or so to return what you bought.

In your case - I would see to buying at these stores if the product is available there.

Some in retail have incredible policies - like they even pay the return shipping - if you regret the purchase.

They go for fully satisfied customers - and remove products they offer - learning from returns they got.

So in the end the manufacturer also gets feedback:

- this is not selling to expectations at all, why?

With Uservoice site I think Microsoft also goes for fully satisfied customers - if they actually go by voted suggestions for improvements etc.

Microsoft has soooooooo been able to rely on domination in PC market with Windows OS - but this changed substantially as Apple relased iPhone 10 years or so ago.

Then Google made Android and is now bigger than Apple iOS.

Now many households go by just fine having a smartphone and many PC's in every home is not as obvious anymore.

Microsoft purchased Nokia to try and overcome what they lost.

They purchased Skype and Minecraft as well - being huge successes.

They sponsor a lot of TV-series I watch on DVD - having Windows Phone stuff all over - well recognized as product placements.

They now introduced Xbox+Windows 10 gaming on titles - trying to make PC stay on stronger - and gamer platform is probably important part of that. apple is not strong on gaming.

Now the worlds most powerful console is about to arrive.

As consumers we all have to be aware of these things - and not paint ourselves into a corner, not having options anymore.

Every purchase we make - is also a statement - I like what you are doing!!!!

You pre-order games and consoles - well that is on you then paying while in demand - with often higher prices.

I probably would not have bought Xbox One at all if launch version did not drop 30% in price as Slim came about a year ago.

This means it was now rather mature console - and also having a good library of silly cheap games to get, being out for long already.

PS3 in 2010 was my first console - and that also been out a good while then. Buy dozens of games really cheap - around £10 or so.

360 in 2012 was my second - and also been out a good while. Also good bunch of really cheap games available.

So will probably wait a couple of years to have games that really makes a difference on X1X before I get one - if developer even care one bit, we will see.

Good part seems to be that Microsoft push developers a bit to enhance games for X1X.

Maybe I have internet on fiber not fiddling with having pending updates all the time due to not having enough bandwidth left for the month.

But if they really made BC built in - so you could install those games right off 360 disk - it could be sooner purchase.

That would really make a difference with a full 360 emulator built in - that would floor me and sign up right away.

 

Does anyone else feel cheated

No one is asking you to be "loyal". Just because you've had Xbox for X amount of years doesn't make you special and doesn't make you more important than other customers. It's about innovation. New things come out, then the previous model and stuff drops
in price. You pay more and play now, rather than pay less and pay later. It's about Living In The Now. You only live once.

 

Smartglass is something I never thought I'd bother with, now though I use it for tons of things. Seem's to be easier and quicker to reply to message's too.

 

Itds best with dead rising new missions and you can call in airstrikes to be honest dead rising has made great use of smartglass ans kinect

 

Yeah, when it comes to messaging, I only use Smartglass or my lop top.

It was fun calling in air strikes on Dead Rising, using Smartglass.

 

I could never get Dead Rising companion to work because of the crap phone I had. I will play through it again one day and try it out.

 

Never wanted the Kinect to begin with. Bought my Xbox One once they decided to release it without that mess. Sorry but if I wanted to play games that needed a kinect then I'd go out and a buy a Wii-U

( which will never happen ).

 

I'd rather see game developers integrate Smartglass, more than Kinect. Which is virtually zero for Kinect, so the bar is all ready set pretty low. hehe

 

Kinect goes beyond games. It doesn't have to have hundreds of games to make it relevant in my opinion.

 

i'd like to more integration with the Kinect, using Dead Rising 3 as an example, i thought that shaking the controller to knock a zombie off of you was very natural and i even continued to do that in other games realizing that i couldn't. with SmartGlass,
i never called in a bomb strike because i used SmartGlass when i started that game and it was just distracting so i stopped using it pretty quickly.

i think using the controller to do QTE's could be good or moving it from side to side to knock objects out of your path, like flipping the controller up in front of you to put up a shield, or use it like a steering wheel, i'd like the Kinect to be able to
controller IR light bulbs, or things like that, i think the potential is there but think we're not going to see anymore innovation.

 

You see, all that stuff you just mentioned is no interest to me.... No disrespect intended. I really hate all that kind of thing with the controller. I think it was on the PS3 I first experienced it, can't remember the game but I remember thinking at the
time that I hope it doesn't catch on.

 

Lol, it's all good, everyone has their preference in what they want thier gaming experience to be, I just think for me I'd have a better experience if the controller had more of a role in the game, I think most of it could be made optional, and then in a
game, to have the whole room change color, or have lights flicker in a horror game would add a lot to my experience.

More or less just thinking out loud, it may even create a aweful experience, but I'd never know if a dev didn't try.

 

I agree that these things could be made optional for people.

 

Heavy Rain was a game like that. I think my dislike started at having to shake my controller in order to get a bloke to dry himself with a towel.