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@skyounkin

Жыл бұрын

So you to can collect our data instead of Microsoft?? I'm onto you GFR!!

@alister101

Жыл бұрын

Sure, just know rent ain't cheap.

@Beerbaby

Жыл бұрын

Matt really won the lottery when he got his girlfriend into the studio to read somthing he wrote!

@usernamesareforidiot

Жыл бұрын

Hello Fresh are union busters, please stop advertising for them

@Beerbaby

Жыл бұрын

@@usernamesareforidiot looking forward to buying from hellofresh!

Fun fact: Kinect cameras are now using in tons of medical imaging devices. Turns out that it’s really good at 3D measurements when the subject is NOT moving.

@islamsalma60

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@MastermindAtWork

Жыл бұрын

Its also decent for affordable motion capture too, especially the Xbox One version.

@TheJerbol

Жыл бұрын

used in *some devices

@darlhiatt8136

Жыл бұрын

That reminds me of when the GBA was the cheapest medical computer for something or another in hospitals.

@Infozentrale

Жыл бұрын

yeah I started giggling when I looked up next to a CT scanner during my first internship and saw one lol

I think iv seen engineers repurpose the kinetic senors for random projects more than iv seen them used to play xbox games 🤣

@christianfarren1179

Жыл бұрын

Sounds about right.

@christophmayer3991

Жыл бұрын

The sad thing is: It is unironically awesome for those "hacked" random projects. You can do SO many creative things with a Kinect it is sad to see it never found love for its intended purpose and therefore was discontinued. On a hardware level the device is astonishing and a true "hacker's"/maker's dream.

@NimjaIV

Жыл бұрын

The Kinect technology started its life outside the games department, so it's only fitting it gets most used outside games applications. I still remember buying it on launch day. I was so excited about it. At least I got a few gaming sessions out of it with friends before never touching it again.

@BertPdeboy

Жыл бұрын

Can confirm, I did some funky UX experimentation and hardware hacking with the camera's.

@honestgoat

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the case. I know I have for sure seen more Kinects attached to robots than to xBox's.

What I've heard from developers was this thing actually worked exactly as advertised which is why it's still used for so many engineering products over the years and to this day. The colossal failure wasn't the hardware, but the horrible dev tools. Microsoft aparently made it a nightmare to make the sensors work as intended and developers inevitably had to take shortcuts to release games on time. The reason you see sensors on instagram and snapchat filters working so well now isn't because the tech improved. It's actually using the same tech that was in the kinect from the start. They just took the time to properly write the code.

@islamsalma60

Жыл бұрын

That's sad

@KenMathis1

Жыл бұрын

That's not true. Kinect didn't work well even with Microsoft's own apps. Also saying that the tech is the same is like saying we currently have the tech for self driving cars because a future actually working version should be able to work with just a few cameras for input.

@wumbol0gy871

Жыл бұрын

@@KenMathis1 Developers had to use Microsoft's dev tools when making their own apps, as well, and were just as crunched for time.

@wumbol0gy871

Жыл бұрын

@@KenMathis1 The self-driving cars analogy isn't awful, but it's just a different problem entirely. The fact is that there are a lot more factors that go into driving than a simple action in a kinect game or instagram filter. Those simpler examples worked just fine when coded properly.

@KenMathis1

Жыл бұрын

@@wumbol0gy871 You can't say, _"I've heard from developers was this thing actually worked exactly as advertised"_ and _"Developers had to use Microsoft's dev tools when making their own apps, as well, and were just as crunched for time"._ Those are mutually exclusive. The fact is that Kinect NEVER worked as advertised. That is why Microsoft had to fake demos of it. Even the improved Kinect 2 with Xbox One never worked like MS advertised the Kinect 1 would work.

There's only one reason why the Kinect exists, and that's DANCE CENTRAL. I spent part of my first ever freelance paycheck on buying DC 2 and 3 because THEY'RE SO GOOD. I loved Dance dance revolution and dance central was the closest amazing dance game that there is. I don't even like just dance, dance central was so precise you had to sweat your ass off just to complete a song

@HEMAYATC

Жыл бұрын

Dance Central was the BEST!

@aedanlycanth8464

Жыл бұрын

Dance Central is a workout, and absolutely agree that’s the only viable reason anyone would still want a Kinect.

@ArthurHLI

Жыл бұрын

Dance Central is the best game made for the Kinect!

@Max-qz4tw

Жыл бұрын

Only reason. Too band dance central with the 1 was beyond trash.

@kobuseksteen411

Жыл бұрын

I have all three dance central games. They are incredible. I used to do like 5 songs everyday for exercise and was exhausted. Also both seasons of kinects sports are fun.

Say what you will about Kinect. Dance Central was a blast and one of the last times my house was full of kinda cool people having fun with a gaming console.

@HEMAYATC

Жыл бұрын

I loved Dance Central so much. I would regularly play with my friends in college. Sometimes we would even reserve study rooms with big tvs to play together in an open space.

@NeoFighterX

Жыл бұрын

It was one of the main reasons i stayed with Xbox for X1 and that kinect experience was fuckin shite

@Meteorgun7

Жыл бұрын

I play Dance Central regularly, tons of fun and a workout!

@geolawie

Жыл бұрын

I liked the idea of Dance Central but found the coaches too judgemental. Just Dance was more forgiving of my bad flailing.

@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898

Жыл бұрын

That's so sad, with so many games you could have been playing all these years with your friends.

I actually loved the Kinect and am sad it was discontinued. Games that used it well such as Dance Central, Kinect Sports and Fruit Ninja were a blast to play with casual friends. If they had more realistic marketing and didn’t try to force it down everyone’s throats, I think it could have worked out as a nice option for the (admittedly few) people who enjoyed the games.

@GirlfriendReviews

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! The marketing is really want did it for me

@Pedro_The_Neco

Жыл бұрын

The Gunstringer deserves more love. People should try it!

@YouTubeCensors

Жыл бұрын

Not a Kinect fan but they should have kept it as a peripheral Not included with Xbox one with Kinect 2.0

@brettlovell8761

Жыл бұрын

@@Pedro_The_Neco it was one of the better Kinect experiences, I have to say.

@eyepatchlolz

Жыл бұрын

@@GirlfriendReviews ah yes the marketing really want did it for me too

The Kinect is actually one of the best 3D spatial measurement cameras. We use them extensively in prototyping for engineering. They are really good cameras. The tech isn't great for video games, but it's absolutely amazing and dirt cheap for spatial tracking.

@itsd0nk

Жыл бұрын

The tech is fine for video games. MS just lost their talented team that started Kinect on the 360 and hired a completely inexperienced new set of employees to make the software for the xbone Kinect. That's why my 360 Kinect still works great and is fun to use, while my xbone Kinect is still sitting at the GameStop I immediately traded my console in at for a PS4 in January 2014.

didn't expect GFR to rip the Kinect this morning, but I'm not complaining

The Kinect was more useful for software engineers' senior projects than it was for gaming.

The kinect V2 is actually still used in research fields, as the hardware and middleware in it is damn good 🤣

To be fair the Kinect 2.0 was actualy pretty good, I was addicted to Dance Central on that thing and navigating the Xbox one's ui with motion controls actually worked pretty well.

Marky Mark's look when he realized he was being filmed is a truly timeless classic.

I actually had a Kinect and a Wii, and I can confirm I looked like a fool playing on the Kinect more. Thank you Girlfriend Reviews for unlocking that memory.

Weirdly Kinect still is one of the best camera for motion tracking for computer science research project.

@arianoooamari6949

Жыл бұрын

It’s not one of the best lol. It’s one of the cheapest cause the sensor would otherwise wind up in the trash. I know that for a fact cause we got tons of these sensor as a donation to our university. That’s why they being used all over the world even to this day. Pfff best ones…yeah sure…best one my ass!

@NeoShameMan

Жыл бұрын

IPhone called from simless hell

@mcmadness110

Жыл бұрын

Microsoft still sells a variant of the Kinect called the Azure Kinect.

@DeLuciosX

Жыл бұрын

@@NeoShameMan Apple actual even bought the team that created the depth-sensory system. So, Iphone kinda uses technology from Microsoft.

The most impactful thing that came from Kinect might be that it gave a bunch of devs experiences that helped VR grow in recent years. Fun fact, the Zune guy is actually a project lead at oculus now. Had Kinect not died a horrible death, VR might be in a much worse spot today.

@danilooliveira6580

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about that, VR use a lot of different technologies, only some of them use camera tracking, and it was something that already existed before kinect, mostly in the animation industry. sure Kinect was a trailblazer in a way, nowadays you can do what the kinect was trying to do with your phone without even needing stereoscopic camera, but I'm pretty sure the technology would be fine without the kinect, maybe it would just be a bit slower to come to popularity because of a lack of a commercial push.

@sepg5084

Жыл бұрын

VR? Yeah, maybe in a decade or so. Even today, VR has negligible market share. I ain't holding my breath, and the Kinect scam isn't worth it for the consumer. I guess XBOne requiring Kinect to be always plugged in will pave the way for VR to do the same? 😁

@sepg5084

Жыл бұрын

@@danilooliveira6580 kinect was just a scam, a lame attempt to copy nintendo.

@Ozzianman

Жыл бұрын

@@sepg5084 Unlike the Kinect, VR is actually growing and has a strong core pillar of passionate indie developers with some turned into proper game studios willing to experiment and find out what works. AAA are dipping their toes into VR and the results have been kinda mixed so far.

@HeloisGevit

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozzianman VR will fail, same as Kinect and 3D before it.

Microsoft was a victim of its own success with the Kinect. They sold so many in such a short time during the 360 era, that they came to the conclusion that they had a legitimate hit on their hands. Combined with real data showing that people had been using their 360 on their living room TV to watch all kinds of media on disc and through apps (I watched tons of Netflix on mine, plus sports on the ESPN app, and so on). The timing was perfect with the Xbox One in development, and the pressure from products like Apple TV (which seemed at the time like a threat to take over the living room media experience - by this time MS had become really paranoid about Apple’s resurgence and their own string of failures in mobile and other products), and MS really thought it had a trend to jump in front of. All the data supported them. And then they went and tried to pitch this whole vision at E3 to a room full of people who only cared about games, and they set it on fire. Wrong message to the wrong audience. If they had stuck to a gaming-centric message to that crowd, and then quietly marketed the media capabilities to a broader, more casual audience, they might have had a much better time of it. Playstation did exactly that and, well..

@IronWish

Жыл бұрын

Ah, yes. Classic move, currently known as a "Do you guys not have phones?" moment.

@Scruffi

Жыл бұрын

@@IronWish Yes, exactly. Wrong message to the wrong audience. Show some D4 concept art to Blizzcon, to let the PC gamers know you're working on it and everyone is happy (if not satisfied :). Show the gacha mobile Diablo at an Asian games show, and they would soak it up. But mistake one for the other and you get combustion.

@teehundeart

Жыл бұрын

Even then I'm not sure all of the focus on media capability was a good idea considering that most people prefer to use smartphones rather than PiP and also Smart TVs were popping up that didn't require you buy a $500 console to play Netflix. And they didn't even get the TV functionality right from a technical perspective. On 50Hz programs like you'd see in Europe the TV signal looked more choppy when passed through an Xbox. It was literally a downgrade to just watching regular TV

@_-ghostfps-_8651

Жыл бұрын

@@teehundeart eh i have smart tv but I'm still using the xbox as a media center

@graysontowler136

Жыл бұрын

At the launch of XBox One, Microsoft was announcing predictions of 1 billion unit sales. Which would have been (at the time) be more than all console sales in history combined, going back to the original Pong system. I think it's safe to say they were a bit optimistic. My take was that they thought that, in Kinect, they had managed to create the next touchscreen--that is, the Kinect interface would do to the TV market what touchscreens did to phones. In marketing terms, this is technically known as "huffing your own farts."

Dance Central made me think I could actually dance. Then I went to a club and learned the sad truth.

@d21lewis

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

You know, kinect was an incredible device for kids specially to play. I got my first xbox with a kinect and i spent tons of hours playing just kinect sports, beating world records on it. The main problem in opinion is that the games were poorly developed. A lot of them just asked you to move your hand, or do the same movements over and over. Games like kinect sports that were multiplyier and forced you to do a lot of different moves with your whole body were the best.

this is easily one of my favorite videos that you guys have put out. really appreciate all the excellent content you both put out!

@GirlfriendReviews

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Sure the kinect wasn’t the best but I did have a lot of fun playing it with my siblings.

Fun fact: Kinect was used in Paranormal Activity 4 as a horror story device.

Kinect works excellent with the dance games. Dance Central and Just Dance. A smoke machine, a disco ball, a subwoofer, and booze is all it took for me to throw wildly successful Meetup Group parties. Non gamer women loved it. Hence local guys loved it, and the brave ones would join in on the dancing. It also helped that I lived near a seasonal ski resort and that there were a lot of strippers in the area. I also had a full Rock Band setup to switch over to as the evening wore on. Recently passed the whole setup to a friend who has a couple kids interested in dance. They absolutely love it and have learned a lot of early 00 dance moves.

As I'm reading it from all the comments is that the Kinect walked or crawled more like so that VR, medical applications of kinetic sensors and DANCE CENTRAL could run and I think that's brilliant. I remember giving Xbox a chance during the kinect phase and then I sprinted back to my playstation safe space within a month. It was fun though, for a week.

It is a desperate day indeed when a gamer is reduced to gaming on a kinect. Get well soon buddy

I had a Kinect and I had a blast with Kinect Sports, Dance Central, Just Dance and Your Fitness Evolved, I honestly don't understand all the hate the kinect gets

There’s a current product called Azure Kinect that built on the original. It’s used in enterprise/edu/gov/medical. It was a huge leap in spatial awareness and body tracking. Maybe it was actually ahead of its time?

I automatically start smiling when I see a new post by you

at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffe

@989Nexus

Жыл бұрын

Finally, some ACTUAL medical advice from a real professional.

@boy_of_war

Жыл бұрын

What 😅

@jiffylou98

Жыл бұрын

my favorite comment

@rofyle

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah? Well I impersonally sneak them in.

The writing is so on point, I couldn't stop smiling

@friendlyfire421

Жыл бұрын

This is the most charming channel on KZread.

@sirjarko8762

Жыл бұрын

@@friendlyfire421 OH for sure!

@GirlfriendReviews

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Bruh I had so much fun with family and friends on Kinect sports. And don’t even get me started on kinectimals as a kid. I had my bear and we were best buds.

I remember the general format of several Xbox E3s in a row; Halo, Gears, Call Of Duty/Battlefield and Kinect. There were live reaction threads I used to read and people would go nuts (And not in an "Oh yeah!" way) when Kinect would dominate half a press conference. Glad those days are gone.

The Kinect is a wonderful device and it did work almost perfectly for me. I had done several projects with it and was surprised how good it works

I work electronics at a thrift store. We get our fair share of kinects. But we don't have games that work with it. I looked up the value and stuck a $15 tag on all of them. I didn't even know what they did until now. Thank you for the history lesson.

@cattysplat

Жыл бұрын

Kinect games were going for silly money during the pandemic lockdowns. They went from worthless to some of the most in demand preowned games.

so true about the parents thing. My mom hadnt touched a video game since Tetris and my stepdad never played anything yet they used the Wii they got me for getting good grades more than I did.

it's so hackable, I've seen dozens of interactive art made with Kinects and for that, I will eternally

The technology behind kinect v2 was amazing. But xbox didnt know what to do with it. Its great for some interactive art projects :)

The one thing I really miss about the kinect is the video controls. Not the motion controls, but voice controls ("xbox pause", "xbox play") worked in every video app. So you don't have to turn on your controller, hit play, then turn your controller off to save battery life

Matt really be having me rolling😂😂 between the edits and commentary he has me laughing hard

Hey, I WATCHED MOVIES ON MY ZUNE! As a wee lad I specifically downloaded and formatted a finely curated batch of movies into the correct video format and loaded my Zune to the max and boy did I feel cool as hell on my summer European trip riding trains while watching The Bourne Identity and you can never take away my fond Zune memories!

3:56 Dog just walks past like nothing's weird "The humans are at it again. Whatever."

Matt! At the same time you got it, I also went down with a case of trigger finger (probably because Hollow Knight on Switch). I tried a lot of stuff but I think what got me a lot of relief was using a TENS-machine. One that uses electric impulses to stimulate your muscles. I hook up both my hands 🙌 and let it vibrate the muscles around thumb joints and I feel it helped a lot! I’m in the middle of creating my own gaming content and so I was pretty down because of the set back but I think this helped me to get back at it :) Hope it possibly helps you as well!

@GirlfriendReviews

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@jayweaks

Жыл бұрын

I also have trigger finger that came out of nowhere. Getting old blows.

@diegoferreira3444

Жыл бұрын

that is a common treatment in physiotherapy

It amazes me how this channel's joke and memes are always so on point.

FWIW, if you're a hobbyist nerd the Kinect is a dream. It likely inspired a handful of augmented reality programmers. You can get the libraries for this and easily program things with 3D object/hooman tracking. I mean. I didn't. But you can.

Fun fact the company that developed the tech in the Kinect was bought by apple and is now used for Face ID

Hmm, dunno, I got Kinect a year ago and enjoyed the hell out of it, great experiences ))

I remember this one game from it called “gunstringer”, was actually quite charming

OMG the car exploding literally killed me from laughing.

My wife actually liked the voice feature. “Xbox, Turn on Netflix” “Xbox Pause”. Some kid got funny and changed their name to “Xbox Off”. The. When that person would troll others and yell “XBOX OFF” their console would turn off.

This marketing actually consumed me as a kid. I skipped school on launch day. Pretty sure I never touched it after a week 🤣

If sitting through the ad read means more clips of Tato then I will continue to do so

Loved the voice command feature for dragon shouts in skyrim and Dance central was pretty rad.

It is really interesting how Nintendo hit a home run with the Wii’s motion controls, stumbled with Wii U, and Switch’s motion controls became lukewarm. Xbox tried to Kinect but failed; whilst PlayStation had a wiimote copy too, and decided to innovate further with PS VR

The Kinect was amazing. It suffered the reality that all niche peripherals do: games designed around them only function if the peripheral continues to be supported and lock out anyone without the peripheral. It was an amazing piece of hardware and made some of the best games in their genres (Just Dance pales in comparison to Dance Central). It's a shame about the realities of hardware manufacturing and the limitations of game design given a niche control method, but there was a lot of potential there and I'm sad to see it die.

@bluehammer1245

Жыл бұрын

Hello, I am from Microsoft. I want to thank you for continuing to uphold our agreement, and to tell you that your check is in the mail. Please continue to endorse the shit products we make.

@effortlessfury

Жыл бұрын

@@bluehammer1245 the Wii suffers the same problem, so I hope you think Nintendo also makes shit products

@mrpayback519

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. They tried to remedy that by making it mandatory with every Xbox One. The best selling peripheral could push hardware sales and everyone would have one so developers wouldn't have a problem supporting it. Unfortunately, the casual ship had sailed by late 2013. Even the Wii had stagnated.

The ONE thing I will give this dumb system: Buying the Kinect and the first three Dance Central games was still less expensive than buying a treadmill, and more engaging. That said, it's not like dancing games were exclusive to Microsoft. This was just how it worked for *me*.

That Godfellas-style speech was gold 😂

Ironically the Kinect lives on, not as a motion gaming device, but for things other than gaming. I've seen a couple of military drones(specifically land drones) use this, ghost hunting tools for motion detection, 3d scanning for static objects(though kinect 2 has been used for moving objects), motion capture in smaller indie dev studios. The Kinect is actually a great piece of tech and can be a more affordable alternative to similar devices that will usually cost thousands if not hundred thousands more to get and install. Obviously it will not perform on par or better than ones built specifically for motion capture, but for the price and a bit of tweaking, it can be amazing.

Wow! I just stumbled upon this Chanel and boy it's great!

@GirlfriendReviews

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Nah the Kinect was dope af I tried so hard to keep that shit alive 🤣

That subtle TPB reference was excellent. "French fries and onion rings. You know what I don't hear, Randy? I don't hear a heart dawg."

I actually work in VR development and as many have said, the Kinect is used a lot simply as a 3D camera for research and development of VR technologies.

The Kinect was actually used a lot during surgeries in operating rooms to check charts and whatnot so that the doctors wouldn't have to leave and scrub up again. The Kinect was super useful, just as long as it wasn't connected to an Xbox.

I have zero regrets about "missing" the Kinect era...

3:55 doggo strolling in killed me🤣

Matt is radiating such Dad energy, and I am here for it.

Dance Central >>>>>>> Just Dance

Try PSVR! ASTROBOT RESCUE MISSION!!

@d21lewis

Жыл бұрын

Incredible experience!!

And yet, I still play Kinect bowling to this day!!!

Every time I watch through the Paranormal Activity movies I get to that one that was a big product placement for the Kinect and its like, such an awkward time capsule.

kinectimals? i hardly knowimals

Kinect probably would have lived on as a popular accessory for those who enjoyed dancing, fitness and party games. When they tried to force every Xbox One owner to have one though, that was too far. The Kinect 2 was a huge improvement over the Kinect 1 so it's a shame many never got to try it.

Fun fact about the Wii, the guy that came up with the technology first took it to Microsoft then Sony and was turned down by both

Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen

Pee and poo

The Kinect had some fantastic video chat features. You could walk around your living room and the camera would follow you. It would have been a handyl video chat solution at the start of the pandemic.

The Kinect is worth it just so you can have a dance battle with the Emperor from Star Wars.

The Kinect fitness games helped me loss weight. At least that sales pitch worked. 🤷

Listen, it may have been a scam, but it's the only way I could convince my parents to get me an Xbox. The plan worked to perfection.

5:53 that has to be the most high quality suprised pikachu I've ever seen.

I loved my kinect. Legit useful for changing programs, switching channels, switching games, turning on and off the TV when you walk in the door, changing volume, and more.. never used it for playing games tho lol

Short, angry, concise. Just like Shelby! Nice work you two.

The Kinect gave birth to one of the best arcade games out there, Dance Evolution.

another banger also: "HelloFresh literally taught me how to cook" same!!!! still really glad i clicked the last/first time i saw your blurb for it, been ~freshin it up~ ever since :D

Dance Central is incredible and it was a huge hit at any house party I had. It was also extremely motivating as a workout routine. I would have a kinect again just for that one game alone.

“chicken, cola fizz, mustard and relish coagulating together”. I see a TPB reference, I like it

say what you will, but the star wars kinect game created many a sibling conflict and childhood memory for me

"No thanks Linda!" 🤣

Bowling was fun and worked well.

I got a beta unit of the original Kinect. I was the coolest dude in the city back then.

I actually liked the Kinect. I liked controlling stuff on the screen by waving rather than finding wherever I put the controller. But I defiitely like the Kinect as a 3D scanner - the 360 Kinect works well as a low-price scanner for static objects, and the Xbone variant can be used for some middling-to-decent entry-level motion capture.

The best part of the Kinect: I had it stored in my basement when it flooded and got some insurance money.

The Dance Central games and Nike+ Kinect Trainer were still the bomb though.

I missed out on the launch of Kinect, so a few years backs I grabbed one for cheap at a thrift store and some games to give it a go. Most were eh to bad, but there was one that stood out to me. Fantasia Music Evolved is a fantastic rhythm game by Harmonix. They found a way to make their brand of unique rhythm games work by just flailing your arms. The controls made me feel like I was back in my high school band and I was the conductor, of course with Disney magic added in. Highly recommended to anyone remotely interested in the Kinect.

I had some good fun playing Kinect Sports with my family, though not nearly as much as Wii Sports. With the Xbox One, I used it exclusively for the following voice controls: “Xbox on, Xbox record that, Xbox off”

I had two back-to-back foot surgeries when I was in high school and I remember wanting to play the dance and jumping kinect games with my family but I couldn't so instead I played Fable: Journey because it only uses hands/arms so you can play while sitting. Honestly? 10/10 gaming experience truly a good memory thank u kinect

The observatory in salt lake has like 20 kinects for cool science demonstrations

I will never understand why every single attempt to crib off the wii's motion controls latched on to everything *but* the one truly revolutionary feature, the IR pointer. The wii's IR pointer was unambiguously great and filled a well-defined game-play niche (aiming). You ask anyone, anyone, who spent hours and hours of their life playing shooter like the conduit 2 and goldeneye remake online, you ask them if they used stick or the pointer... The pointer conferred a huge advantage! I remember going over to my friends' house to play some splitscreen in goldeneye remake right after it came out and he was using the pack-in gold pro controller (it did look absolutely ballin). So of course I was using wiimote & nunchuck. I'd never been very good at FPS games, but after maybe 7 or 8 rounds straight of me winning, he decided that the twin-sticks were putting him at a disadvantage and boom. he was back in the fight. and then you have the playstation and xbox motion control solutions which have all of the gimmicky, inaccurate, gesture based gameplay of the wii's crummy little accelerometer but none of the precise, fast aiming that the IR pointer gave. At least gyro aim is now available as an option in most major titles on the switch or on steam through steaminput. It's better than twinsticks, but it's not as good as the IR pointer. It makes me sad that the greatest innovation of the motion control era is basically dead. It could come back; all you would need is a tiny camera-- literally the same chip as the light/proximity sensor on most smartphones-- embedded in the front of the controller, between the triggers. But, I know that's vanishingly unlikely. For now I'll have to make do with gyro aim as the only legacy of this very experimental period in gaming history.

When shelby was cutting those scallions I was litterally screaming! I'm glad she's learning to cook but mind your fingers girl

In my mind difference between wii sports and Kinect is as simple as: a year or two of laying on bunks in the barracks, lazily playing Wii bowling with burger King on your stomach- and then that one time we tried Kinect drunk and still hated it that one time.

Congrats to Boyfriend on becoming a Dad. I mean look at that hair and that face. 150% Dad.