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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here we're going a bit old-school on the camera angle I am in a hotel room in Austin on the road for a few days but I wanted to talk about Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's PlayStation Move sort of been all the buzz and all the talk about it at e3 the circum very divergent motion controls for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 so let me recap what both these are and if you haven't seen the full III keynote recap video I'll put them down below which evidently is right in my pants so you can check them out but Microsoft's Kinect began its life as project natal it essentially is a motion capture system it uses a series of cameras and lenses to track your motion which initially translates into you be enough controller so we're talking complete controllers gaming when you see somebody do it it looks very Minority Report s you're waving at the camera moving things around actually there stands and recognizes your whole body and from the videos that I've seen does it quite well and I can have up to four people that can come in and play so what does this mean well for right now in sort of the short term it's gonna be mostly those sort of gimmicky sports games so you can you know you can box and you can punch they've got some dancing games where you can dance and the motion seems to be very one to want it quite true so as you move your finger just one inch to the left or right it's gonna recognize that and it's a very cool way to interact with your console so what Microsoft talked about one of these I really liked was imagine watching a DVD certainly not a blu-ray on the Xbox and you want to hit pause you know it's a fumble other control or a fumble with a remote anymore you just say Xbox let it know you're talking to it pause and it pauses you can actually move your finger around and scan and sort of go forwards where you want to be which is sort of a neat addition but it's not gonna sell a console for me I think that we're not going to see the potential of Kinect previously product and tall for for a good another year and a half that developers start using it I think we're gonna see you store some we asked party games for a while and it's going to be I think a bit gimmicky but until we see how Call of Duty or how halo is going to work with the Kinect you know I'm not so sure it's going to really achieve that mainstream adoption Microsoft did show off Halo Reach they showed off the new Gears of War and all of which were shown using traditional Xbox 360 consoles not connect a sort of a separate thing so I'm not sure how that's going to work and how it's going to implement moving forward certainly you're going to look wholly ridiculous I mean playing a games imagine sitting in front of your console and you're sitting upon your TV here's your shoot things around but your neighbors are coming by and seeing you and doing a little dance you're gonna look totally insane but that may be one of those things that look crazy now and I'm going to seem completely mainstream in a few years with the next generation of consoles but at least for the time being it seems very weird and very niche in pricing is rumored to be $150 so it's a very expensive add-on to an already expensive console so you're looking if you want to get the new Xbox and ones a bigger hard drive and the built-in wireless you're looking at about 300 bucks another 150 on top of that $450 gets you a console which is very powerful and can handle graphics and everything very impressively but it's not really that forward-looking now it doesn't have the blu-ray capabilities but you are getting sort of a lot more in the package I'm a big Xbox 360 fan I have one that loved the console but I'm very curious to how connected when it integrates work in that whole ecosystem I will say that I've been extremely impressed with xbox alive I think for me that's what sells the console so let's move off of Xbox now and let's talk about Sony's new PlayStation Move it essentially looks like a Wii MotionPlus a little bulb on the top this is a traditional controller motion sensor so you've got a controller you've got a little add-on which is sort of like a nunchuck and you can control your games that way this is very familiar to people we've seen it with the Wii you know for four years now it's more exact motion so you get more true one to one and also conserve ax work in a sixaxis motion so not just left and right forward and back in quarters can sense all of your proximity this is sort of a more traditional approach is probably a bit more safe on Sony's part I think Microsoft is taking you very big risk either Kinect is going to catch on and be the next big thing and define console games as we know it or it's going to completely fizzle out the Sony PlayStation Move is more of a more of a sure thing people are used to we they see people hold our Wii Remote some people hold the Nunchuk we've got those backwards and people are more familiar interface the gaming is dect I could expect their peripherals we can plug it in use it as a gun there be I'm sure the lightsaber games not kind of stuff or we can use in Motion Plus and it's a much less expensive proposition coming in at just about 30 bucks for the Move controller although the evil add-ons going to be a bit extra so why on one hand I think Microsoft is experimenting with a perhaps a paradigm shift in how video games are consumed on the other hand I think Sony is going with the more traditional consumer approach and I think this sort of reversed and what we saw with the consoles launched I think when the PlayStation 3 launched it was first with a blu-ray player at removable hard drive it's all out there operating systems on it it was a really true next-generation console and it was more than what people are looking for at the time I think that's why its initial sales numbers were a bit low and it served as the console involved and sort of thing that the PlayStation 3 had became more mainstream sort of the adoption rate we don't went from very flat to going straight up IV Xbox on there on the other hand it was a more traditional console used the DVD format people were used to developers already knew how to use it it was a little bit less expensive you didn't get necessarily all the features that you could get with the PlayStation 3 but what people were used to and now we've sort of seen those things completely switch on their heads so for my money I'm certainly going to try Kinect although I am very very very skeptical that maybe I'm buying $150 of you know remote list access to my television I don't have to sort of what things if I want to watch a DVD place you can move some games seems a bit more sure you know how it's going to work you want that or picking one up you know how it's going to function you know it's going to work well it's going to be true one to one and it's gonna be able to you know point a tennis game with it so you know that's my take on I'm curious to what you guys think you agree or disagree am i way off do you think that Kinect is going to be the next big thing are you willing to shout they actually hundred fifty bucks for it you know really just kind of interested to hear you know your guys take on everything anyway I'm John Retton German TechnoBuffalo leave your comments down below and I will see you in the next video bye-bye