Kinect Vs. Move – Blorge readers decide
Both Microsoft and Sony have now unleashed their motion-control systems on to the world. But which will win over casual gamers?
Nintendo found incredible success by releasing a console which favored motion control above all else, and the Wii is still sitting pretty in first place in terms of units sold. Cue Microsoft and Sony’s attempt to latch onto the same market.
In our most recent poll we asked: Kinect Vs. Move – Which will win? The results are as follows:-
PS3 Move – 244 – 40% of all votes
Xbox 360 Kinect – 189 – 31% of all votes
Motion Control Sucks! – 100 – 16% of all votes
The Wii Is Better… – 76 – 12% of all votes
The Blorge readership think Move on the PS3 will succeed ahead of Kinect on the Xbox 360. However, that obviously could tell us more about where the Blorge readership’s allegiances lie than anything else. I don’t like to use the F word but you know who you are.
The Wii coming last didn’t surprise me but what did was how few people voted for ‘Motion Control Sucks!’ There is now a new poll up and running, asking which console will win the hardware battle this holiday season?
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November 14th, 2010
We know you are a closet nintendo fanboy Dave.
I voted motion sucks ass.
November 14th, 2010
Sometimes, the F word is not a bad thing. Of course, most of the hardcore gamers are going to vote for the controller that they feel will be utilized in the games that appeal mostly to them. Ps3 has the titles that most hardcore gamers want. With that being said, I still find the traditional controller to be just fine.
November 14th, 2010
Motion controller is optional for me. I’m with Twilight here, Tradition controller will be hard to replace. just look at the Wii, there best games are most played with buttons and not with any motion gimmick
November 14th, 2010
All games on the wii use some motion roca.
November 14th, 2010
I know, most = mostly
November 14th, 2010
hey guys, Look at this awesome trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMYjtWjCNYg&feature=player_embedded#!
November 15th, 2010
It’s a loaded question.
Wii motion has already won this gen for sales, and it still has the best playing games, though not many (probably due to having the most time and resources dedicated to developing them).
Kinect will probably win for the rest of the gen in sales, mainly due to Microsoft’s marketing machine.
Move wins for the best looking games and the tightest control specs.
As for which console this holiday season, PS3 deserves it hands down, but it’s anybody’s game at this point.
November 15th, 2010
ncasissie – “I voted motion sucks ass”!
Thats because pressing the nice green triangle button on your 3 generation old ps3rd controller with your fat sweaty thumb makes you out of breath like a fat colostomy bag wearing slapper that works on the top floor of a brothel.
November 15th, 2010
I voted motion control sucks! and Ps3(cos it rules)
@Andrew
You win the award for the most specific insult ever!
Colostomy – “the surgical formation of an opening from the colon onto the surface of the body, which functions as an anus”
Brilliant!
November 15th, 2010
hey andrew how is the gardening and baking going?
November 15th, 2010
*what Carlb said*
November 15th, 2010
“and it still has the best playing games, ”
Not by a long shot.
“Thats because pressing the nice green triangle button on your 3 generation old ps3rd controller with your fat sweaty thumb makes you out of breath like a fat colostomy bag wearing slapper that works on the top floor of a brothel.”
LMAO sure dude. I am 5’8″ and until recently never weighed over 120. I had to go to a dietitian to bulk up. Now I’m at 142.
Are you speaking from experience? Your probably one of those fat kids that walks around with a DS in your hand all day long. 11 years old?
November 15th, 2010
LMAO
November 15th, 2010
“The Blorge readership think Move on the PS3 will succeed ahead of Kinect on the Xbox 360. However, that obviously could tell us more about where the Blorge readership’s allegiances lie than anything else. I don’t like to use the F word but you know who you are.”
Yeah, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that Blorge is full of PSFagboys
November 15th, 2010
the better Kinect sells the more Microsoft will focus on Wii-too shovelware.. Gears 3 can’t come soon enough.
November 15th, 2010
“it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that Blorge is full of PsFagboys and XbotFagboys as well.”
November 15th, 2010
I was in Best Yet, and they had a Kinect kiosk set up.(still no Move kiosk)
No one was using it so me and my gf tried it out. We played the Rafting and it was just as I expected to be. bleh.
She went into the store talking about Kinect based off a conversation with friends from work, and left underwhelmed. She was also under some impression that it was an entirely new system. Weird how the MS brainwashing machine works.
November 15th, 2010
Oh.. There was also plenty of Kinects, and Kinect+360′s available on the floor. It doesn’t appear to have gotten that must have wii feel from the looks of it.
November 15th, 2010
I played Kinect Sports at Best Buy.
gesture-based menu control sucks, the lag was there and most of its mini games are super easy because since Kinect is not accurate enough the game helps and do most of the stuff for you. It’s like auto-aim for a shooter
November 15th, 2010
Kinect will make you Xbox a mad house full of ads
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/15/microsoft-exec-caught-in-privacy-snafu-says-kinect-might-tailor/
November 15th, 2010
@Roca
That’s why I’m surprised to see Kinect Sports get better reviews than Sports Champions.
Sports champions measures the subtleties of changes in wrist motion for backspin in table tennis, while Kinect is just….slap at the ball.
Same thing for bowling. You pick exactly when to release the ball in the bowling game I tried. In Kinect Sports, no such precision exists.
To me it feels like Move is a step forward while Kinect is a step back in terms of motion gameplay.
November 15th, 2010
“I was in Best Yet”
LOL.. This was supposed to say Best Buy…:D
November 15th, 2010
LOL – I was going to ask you about that Best Yet store since you also said Best Yet in the GT5 thread.
Yeah Kinect is more of a gimmick than anything else, you’ll never had full control of what’s going on in the game as the device is not accurate enough to rely on your movements
Kinect sports is the worst rated “Sports” motion game
76 – [Wii] Wii Sports
76 – [Move] Sports Champions
72 – [Kinect] Kinect Sports
November 15th, 2010
Phranctoast,
We know what you were saying so no sweat.
Lol. The computer guy walks by my desk nearly everyday telling me that I need to get the Kinect. I could care less about motion controls.
November 15th, 2010
@Roca
I stand corrected.
I was thinking about IGN. IGN gave Sports Champions a 7.5 and Kinect Sports an 8.
So once again, IGN is a bit off the norm.
November 15th, 2010
I don’t even remember the last I visited IGN..
Sports Champions is a better game than Kinect Sports, I bet some of this Kinect games get a few extra points because of the ‘controller free’ novelty/gimmick
November 15th, 2010
“I was in Best Yet, and they had a Kinect kiosk set up.(still no Move kiosk)
No one was using it so me and my gf tried it out. We played the Rafting and it was just as I expected to be. bleh.
She went into the store talking about Kinect based off a conversation with friends from work, and left underwhelmed. She was also under some impression that it was an entirely new system. Weird how the MS brainwashing machine works”
LOL Phranctoast. Well come on it’s Kinect Adventures. Just a bunch of mini games to see what kinect can do. The rafting requires communication. Something I don’t think goes well in public places. There is something about playing at home in your own comfort vs playing in public. You should have done it alone as two player is hard to do without serious communication. I don’t play adventures that much but it’s OK. You should have tried sports.
November 15th, 2010
Yeah. I didn’t even check to see any of the other games offered on the Kinect Adventures disc or look to see if demos were available for Kinect Sports.
Now that you mention it though, I should have. Nothing says completely boring waste of time like slapping red balls around.
Now she’s back at work telling the girls how lame it is, and that you DO need a Xbox 360 to use it, which means $300 point of entry.
November 15th, 2010
I tried Kinect Sports….. god that game was awful, I would rather play Wii Sports any day..
No precision, no accuracy, no full control, gestured-based menu is tiresome..Kinect can’t even detect how hard you swing at the opponents.
November 15th, 2010
@CAD
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November 15th, 2010
LMAO
November 15th, 2010
“Not by a long shot.”
I’m talking only what is available at this time which is Move compatible and what is available for Wii at this time. The few good games Wii has are really good, Move not so much. This may change in the future, but right now, it is what it is.
November 16th, 2010
sorcery will change all of that
November 16th, 2010
move has the best potential and better tech to build off oof
November 16th, 2010
Fuck Move, Fuck Kinect, Fuck the Wii.
They all suck ass. They are ok for little kids but not for adults. “Casual” gaming adults should stick to gaming on their cell phones.
November 17th, 2010
^
;P
ncaisse,didn’t you say you were impressed with move? Buddy, you have to lube that anal glowing ball first. I hope you’re alright, KY is your friend!
November 17th, 2010
I was but not for me. I was impressed by it’s accuracy compared to the Wii.
I still say “Fuck Move, Fuck Kinect, Fuck the Wii.”
November 23rd, 2010
I think the Kinect will do well for the first few weeks up to Christmas, simply because it’s the latest bit of hardware. .and many parents will buy it for kids between 7 and 12 just like they bought the WII for there 4 to 7 year olds.
Once the dust settles after Christmas I really think the WII is spent, and this coming year will see it’s sales fall sharply.
There is now doubt that the PS3 move is way more accurate than the Kinect and will be better incorporated into games where accuracy is an issue , while the Kinect is way more advanced and will create a new genre of games of a similar ilk as the WII only better, kind of the games everyone thought the WII could do, but couldn’t really (if they do it well enough).
Both systems have there limitations, and both I hope will have some good games to come. Things like sword play with the move could be really we implemented and I’d get it for a light sabre game alone if it were done well enough
For the Kinect it really hard to think of games because it’s such a new concept but things like fitness, dance, fighting and then the weirder stuff such as child of Eden, I think we will see some new and hopefully interesting type games come from this new technology.
What will be good, is that for the next gen, we may have something which is a hybrid of the two, having a super accurate move type device in conjunction with a full motion tracking system. .now that would be cool.
And for those of you who think it all sucks, well let’s just say I’m glad there are people with more foresight than you in the gaming industry.
Or we’d still be playing 2D games with digital joysticks. .because anything new would SUCK
November 23rd, 2010
Sorry typo. .meant to say there is “NO” doubt that the move is way more accurate
November 23rd, 2010
I agree with most of what you say there. I think MS will realize some of the limitations of Kinect for Hardcore games and release a wand and sub controller of their own sometime in 2012.
By that time, they would have already sold Kinect on the ‘no controller’ gimmick and not feel like they’re betraying the community by releasing an essentially required peripheral.