Unlikely wrote:None of that sounds better than grabbing the remote and pressing the button. Bear in mind that you can do that while still watching the thing you're watching, assuming you haven't lost the remote or got one with a shit layout that means you can't, by touch, identify common controls.
WorKid wrote:Also, why the hell are you lot banging on about voice control for media? Surely that's like the least important feature of Kinect being used in conjunction with the least important part of the 360?
Elmlea wrote:It's not worth crying about; I just find saying it is better and easier. Â Having to turn down the volume to use voice controls was a one-off occurrence, so I wouldn't read too much into that.
If it's a very loud movie or I have it turned up, sometimes Kinect doesn't hear me very well. Â In which case, pushing "mute" on the always-on TV remote followed by "Xbox pause" is still going to be faster than even getting my hands on the controller.
I'd agree that including it in the box with the new machine seems like a risk. I'm not sure that the hardcore were the ones buying Kinect though.JMW wrote:If I was Microsoft I wouldn't be looking at how many were sold to the hardcore in the first few weeks, I'd be looking at how sales fell off a cliff after that. To base the new Xbox around it would be...risky, at the very least.
JMW wrote:If I was Microsoft I wouldn't be looking at how many were sold to the hardcore in the first few weeks, I'd be looking at how sales fell off a cliff after that. To base the new Xbox around it would be...risky, at the very least.
beano wrote:I'm still interested in what Dante's response to Mod's question from the other thread is.
Mod74 wrote:And you said that to every person in GAME who was intending to buy one?Diluted Dante wrote:Mod, I have a Kinect. I use it. It's shit.
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