If you're still undecided about whether to go for Kinect or Move this Christmas then maybe Sony Move engineer Anton Mikhailov can help. What does he think of the Kinect?
– "A Move-powered Lightsaber game would be damn better than Kinect’s”.
– "Kinect’s tech is not quite up to spec and is mostly technological problems”.
Not that he is biased or anything,
“We’re not necessarily against Kinect or against depth cameras, it’s just we feel like Move has more applicability across more genres so it fits better with what we try to do,
Also I think the tech is a bit, not so much immature, but not quite up to spec in what we think. Like the PlayStation Eye camera runs at 60 frames per second so it can track you very quickly whereas the Kinect and other depth camera are only 30 frames per second. So they are more suited for slower motions.
Dancing is still kind of okay and then the yoga stuff that they were doing, it fits that very well, whereas if you want to do quick punches it’s harder to do that just because you can’t see the player as quickly. And there’s also more latency, things like that. So you know, it’s not a particularly sexy result, it’s just mostly technological problems.”
Ouch.
So should you avoid the Kinect if you're not a yoga or dance fanatic? Move is currently way outselling Kinect but sales figures and insults from rival companies aren't the best way to evaluate a product.
They're very different devices, both with pros and cons, so I would say that it really does come down to your indivdual tastes and your expectations of a motion device.
I personally am not that excited by either of them, Batman Arkham City is all I need, please Santa.
Source: CVG