This post is a little personal to me as I have found that The Kinect has actually brought my family, and indeed the families of my friends who have a Kinect together.
I was never a fan of the Wii, I found the lack of real connection between the baton movement and the icon movement on screen confusing for me.
The Kinect removed the void and allows true intuitive play. No buttons are required to learn before you can begin playing, everything is drip fed to you simply and you really can just 'jump in and play'.
There is an 8 year gap between my brother and I which can make things complicated when it comes to sharing interests as we are effectively from different worlds most of the time. He has his own house and a full time job, I'm in the first year of university! I am pleased to say however that after I got a Kinect and showed him we were both up and playing in minutes. He then went out and bought one the same day for his own Xbox. I have seen my boyfriends parents playing Kinect together in their sitting room as something different to do together as a couple. My boyfriend and I in fact spent new years eve playing on the Kinect with them both on the new Kinect Sports game, his little brother joining in too occasionally.
Recently I showed my Kinect to my 50 something father and I was surprised to find that he absolutely loved it! Too often I have found parents (not always my own) seem to be naturally negative towards games as I feel they still see them as the isolating all consuming pursuits that were around in their youth (I.e. arcade games). I am proud to say that Dad was memorised by the Kinect and he too vowed that he must buy one! I look forward to being able to gently introduce him into 'the Xbox way' as I call it. It is really wonderful and refreshing to be able to bridge the generation gap with technology rather than extend it for once and I am truly excited at where this trend will go next.
I was never a fan of the Wii, I found the lack of real connection between the baton movement and the icon movement on screen confusing for me.
The Kinect removed the void and allows true intuitive play. No buttons are required to learn before you can begin playing, everything is drip fed to you simply and you really can just 'jump in and play'.
There is an 8 year gap between my brother and I which can make things complicated when it comes to sharing interests as we are effectively from different worlds most of the time. He has his own house and a full time job, I'm in the first year of university! I am pleased to say however that after I got a Kinect and showed him we were both up and playing in minutes. He then went out and bought one the same day for his own Xbox. I have seen my boyfriends parents playing Kinect together in their sitting room as something different to do together as a couple. My boyfriend and I in fact spent new years eve playing on the Kinect with them both on the new Kinect Sports game, his little brother joining in too occasionally.
Recently I showed my Kinect to my 50 something father and I was surprised to find that he absolutely loved it! Too often I have found parents (not always my own) seem to be naturally negative towards games as I feel they still see them as the isolating all consuming pursuits that were around in their youth (I.e. arcade games). I am proud to say that Dad was memorised by the Kinect and he too vowed that he must buy one! I look forward to being able to gently introduce him into 'the Xbox way' as I call it. It is really wonderful and refreshing to be able to bridge the generation gap with technology rather than extend it for once and I am truly excited at where this trend will go next.
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