Penny Arcade on PS Move vs Kinect
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/11/8/
I just had a weekend that resembled, in many ways, the ridiculous and saccharine videos of happy families gathered around a Kinect sensor. I wouldn't describe the joy as absolute on my part, but for the people they've chosen to aim their weapon at, they've gained tremendous ground.
When my son hold his arms a certain way, and for some reason the Kinect thinks that he has mutated horribly and now his elbows have disintegrated and his arms are projecting backward from his shoulder blades, I shake my head. I call ? on that: not only is it not tracking him appropriately, it's chosen to interpret the data in a way that is frankly impossible for any human body. You know what my son does in this situation?
He laughs.
Not only are its very real problems not problems, he thinks it's funny. I can't really chart the importance of something like that on a graph. I don't know that it means.
Kinect versus Move is a media-driven false choice. The Microsoft Kinect is a demonstrably, profoundly bad Playstation Move. There's simply no comparing the two devices, at least, no way to compare them that makes the Kinect look good. For example, Child of Eden would be about a thousand times better with Move, a fact I hope is eventually absorbed by its publisher. Tumble, one of the simplest games available for the Move, is founded on an absolute control of x/y/z movement that might not even be possible on the Kinect. But that's a matter quite apart from the Kinect being without merit, and at this juncture, it's merit has to do with a philosophy that posits it as a core method of interaction as opposed to a peripheral. Brenna and I have been watching an educational program in the evenings, and I noticed with some surprise that I'd never once considered using a remote. This is very, very strange territory. I think the entire Kinect Guide needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt, that's true. This is no Damascus Conversion, everything I said on Friday remains. But there is something very strange happening in my house, and again - I don't quite get it.
As it stands, my son splits his time fairly evenly between his EyePet and bowling on the Kinect. He doesn't know yet that you can only like one or the other - that allegiance must be staked out, and guarded, that something like chastity is at stake which must be defended from a gruesome and ? Other. I intend to prolong this state indefinitely.
I just had a weekend that resembled, in many ways, the ridiculous and saccharine videos of happy families gathered around a Kinect sensor. I wouldn't describe the joy as absolute on my part, but for the people they've chosen to aim their weapon at, they've gained tremendous ground.
When my son hold his arms a certain way, and for some reason the Kinect thinks that he has mutated horribly and now his elbows have disintegrated and his arms are projecting backward from his shoulder blades, I shake my head. I call ? on that: not only is it not tracking him appropriately, it's chosen to interpret the data in a way that is frankly impossible for any human body. You know what my son does in this situation?
He laughs.
Not only are its very real problems not problems, he thinks it's funny. I can't really chart the importance of something like that on a graph. I don't know that it means.
Kinect versus Move is a media-driven false choice. The Microsoft Kinect is a demonstrably, profoundly bad Playstation Move. There's simply no comparing the two devices, at least, no way to compare them that makes the Kinect look good. For example, Child of Eden would be about a thousand times better with Move, a fact I hope is eventually absorbed by its publisher. Tumble, one of the simplest games available for the Move, is founded on an absolute control of x/y/z movement that might not even be possible on the Kinect. But that's a matter quite apart from the Kinect being without merit, and at this juncture, it's merit has to do with a philosophy that posits it as a core method of interaction as opposed to a peripheral. Brenna and I have been watching an educational program in the evenings, and I noticed with some surprise that I'd never once considered using a remote. This is very, very strange territory. I think the entire Kinect Guide needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt, that's true. This is no Damascus Conversion, everything I said on Friday remains. But there is something very strange happening in my house, and again - I don't quite get it.
As it stands, my son splits his time fairly evenly between his EyePet and bowling on the Kinect. He doesn't know yet that you can only like one or the other - that allegiance must be staked out, and guarded, that something like chastity is at stake which must be defended from a gruesome and ? Other. I intend to prolong this state indefinitely.
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PS3/Move FTMFW!
