Game Boat: the most useless Kinect accessory
The Kinect boasts a controller free experience which basically translates to no peripherals for the device. However, that won’t stop some from making some kind of useless accessory for the Kinect.
As seen before the Game Boat for Kinect Adventures is probably the most useless peripheral in the history of video game accessories. It’s basically a rubber boat you stand in to use for playing Kinect Adventures rafting mini game.
The boat doesn’t add anything to the gameplay except make the area you’re playing in confined and cramped. The Kinect in fact won’t even recognize the boat and could actually make floor recognition difficult.
As reported by Stephen Totilo of Kotaku, the boat comes with a hand pump, and is even capable of floating in real water. He does warn that the boat comes with a “powerful rubbery smell.”
More than anything a device such as this boat may be a safety hazard as two people jumping up and down in a narrow rubber boat may cause the little ones to trip over the side and fall face flat.
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December 26th, 2010
lol now Kev can get himself a Kinect boat to drift down the Kinect river of shame in.
December 26th, 2010
I bet CAD bough this. He also probably also bought one for everyone on his Christmas list.
December 26th, 2010
The most worthless item is the Kinect itself• The Kinect sucks•
December 26th, 2010
Today when i was buying Call of Duty: Black Ops the GameStop guy was asked by a couple what was better to buy KINECT or PlayStation Move. And guess shockingly the GameStop guy said PlayStation Move was the best choice which was sold out. The couple pre-order two bundles. And i told them that they made an awesome wise choice.
Finally GameStop is getting their fanboy act together.
December 26th, 2010
You got CoD Black Ops too? It’s one of my first FPS games and I’m kinda excited.
December 26th, 2010
Didnt Ivan always talk shit about CoD games? And here he bought Black Ops.
December 26th, 2010
This makes Tony Hawk’s ride look genius
December 26th, 2010
not really
December 26th, 2010
Yeah, I think it does
December 27th, 2010
Ivan is just a fuckin idiot that is full of shit.
As for the boat I bet cad preordered it.
@ twilight thought you liked kinect?
December 27th, 2010
Ncaissie,
I do not like the Kinect. I won the device so I tried it out. I said it was an okay device for what it does. I personally do not like the Kinect system.
December 27th, 2010
Game Boat.. too bad it wont make Kinect any more accurate lmao
December 28th, 2010
Man, if this sells I’m surprised they haven’t made a stool for Move Kung Fu Riders lmao
December 29th, 2010
And I thought Kinect itself was a useless accessory . . . .