I don’t care how much 24 karat gold that you wrap around this thing, it’ll be a turd no matter how hard you try selling it to me otherwise. Like much of anything that Microsoft tries to hedge their way into, it’ll take a few billion dollars and a lot of time before they’re able to capture the hearts and minds of the already Wii-ified crowd of casual gamers out there.
They did it with the original Xbox, and damnit they’re going to do it again with the Kinect. I don’t have any strong hatred towards motion controls, but I do have a problem with a control interface being purported as one thing, but delivering something else entirely…like I was with the Wii and the damned waggle.
Maybe I’ll be sold when my daughter begs me to get her Kinectimals…which will probably happen.
I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for.
It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are.
I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.