Ubisoft: No Future for Kinect and Move
The French studio foresees a bright future for the 3DS, but not for Sony and Microsoft’s imminent motion sensors.
It seems more and more developers are talking passionately about 3DS. Recently, Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector touted his utter excitement over the 3DS, and now it’s Ubisoft’s turn to praise Nintendo’s golden goose, no doubt hoping to nab a few eggs in the process.
Ubisoft’s European Managing Director Alain Corre recently commented about Nintendo’s handheld, stating the portable console has a bright future ahead of it. At the expense of such praise, however, Corre also predicts a less successful fate for Playstation Move and Xbox 360 Kinect. Corre explains that while both devices will usher in a new group of casuals, he feels that neither will increase the longevity of their respective consoles.
The real winner in the war for next-generation novelty, he predicts, will be the Nintendo 3DS. In fact, rather than extending the lifespans of the PS3 and Xbox 360, Corre believes that the impending success of the 3DS will instead cut both consoles short. He went so far as to predict the portable device as the ultimate victor of the console wars. Quite a bold statement, but considering how the Nintendo DS managed to outsell all home consoles, such a claim does not seem far off. This is strengthened by comments over how motion controls, as a whole, is a fad that is fading. This means the market is due for a new novelty… something like 3D without glasses.
Despite this less-than-encouraging outlook, Ubisoft are developing games for Move and Kinect, and will no doubt continue to do so if either device manages to survive the developer’s bleak prophecy. With a 30% market share on the 3DS, however, it’s clear which basket the French developer is putting all its eggs in.
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Kinect preorders are very low I think, and move is a wii remote. 3ds FTW.
I think that soon we will be seeing new consoles in the next few years, ps move and kinect shouldn't extend the lives for too long.
i wonder how long it will be till sony make a 3d hand held
@Roy
Kinect pre-orders boom
Microsoft vindicated as innovative controller finds its feet, quashing initial fears over high £129.99 RRP
Kinect is now up for around £114 on a lot of websites and that INCLUDES a game
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/40209/Kinect-pre-orders…
Move will be a 5 min gimmick due to 2 things 1. it's doing no more than the Nintendo Wii and 2. it has a lot of hidden costs, to play a 2 player game on Move how it should be played it will require the the camera and 4 controllers and a game which will bring the price of it up to or even past the price of Kinect.
Then having 4 controllers will mean 4 usb cables having to charge them every hour or so and as the PS3 only has 2 usb ports it looks like more expensive for a docking station.
There is one very annoying factor with Move "EVERY CONTROLLER" has to calibrated "EVERYTIME" you change games
Kinect is out of the box ready for 2 players comes with a game requires no controllers, needs no recharging and can do more than just play games
Maybe the new 3DS will do very well but I certainly wouldn't count out Kinect whereas I see Move being very short lived..
well william, the rumor mill has been churning out info about a psp phone. who knos if thats going to be 3d but 1 fings 4 certain: theyre going 2 b headin into iPhone territory which means that they're going to be in trouble. again.
honestly, after seeing the amount of space shops dedicate to the psp (1 to half a bay unit) throughout the passed few years, you would have thought that sony would have phased it out
sony is not planing to do a 3d handheld (at the mmoment). but when they see the huge success and the amount of money nintendo is making they are gonna jumb into the handheld again trying to get some of the share
sonys move was a copy ofc hardly any1 would get it kinect i seen the games and i am not satifided i wanted a new colsole that would have a completly big differences and 3ds has so many to talk about screens 3d graphics cameras the games and olden time favourites just loads i can think of and that is what most people want not just a console tht is slimmer like the new xboxs and ps3's cause tht is it accept for xbox is touch and wifi woopy doo
With all due respect, an article about 'no future for kinect and move' published on a nintendo3ds site needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Kinect and move will succeed or fail on their own merits. They serve a different market than a portable hand held console. Even if the 3ds is uber coool it will not be mutually exclusive with kinect or move doing well. The same way that a lot of people who own wii's also have an xbox or ps3. To suggest that there will be a console war between a new handheld and new motion controllers for existing full size consoles is really dumb.
It's no surprise that developers will love developing for 3ds. But not all gamers sit at bus stops waiting for the school bus every day. Let's not confuse what developers are excited about with what consumers want. Some consumers have a lot more money invested in their full size console + home theater system. To them a 3d handheld will be just another fun toy to play with while they wait patiently for what they really want: which is the next gen full size console to enjoy in the living room.
THERE IS…no Way
that Iphone,psp2,ove or kinect could counter in a same level fight.
move is like wiimotion+ BUT!!!! without nunchuck, the nunchuck replacement does not offer motion control!!
Sony is too late in the Game, the Motion-Gamer know everything from wii,
the casuals [moms and grandma's] dont play ps3 or 360, the core gamer dont like motion
and why should we spend tons of money for games we mostly know from wii
[except the new +18 rated sony things]
so i think move will start pretty well but lose incredible fast his momentum
kinect is a nice thing, but the real impressiv possibilities like in the milo tech demo…
maybe we see in 2-3 years such a game [mass effect with full-motion-head and mimic-tracking] but it will be overloaded with party games.
Why should the base buy kinect if they must move more than with the hated wiimotion?
Kinect and Move are nice, Kinect is a great Idea….but too late, if they would include it in the next x-box, like nintendo did with motion+ [they had a upgrade plan for the gamecube with motion] the sucess would be greater.
it`s easier to sell a new technology with new hardware, upgrading is a thing the casuals don't get to well.
my money is on 3ds it will doinate the charts for years, and the coming next nintendo home konsole will place big-n in a place seen long time before…..
unreachable King of the Ring 3ds+?home konsole
it was a long ride for Nintendo-Fans but i think finally we are back at home
innovation,fun,epic…. "i believe" [should be a nintendo slogan]
neither the kinect nor the Move have much interest for me at the moment but i see more of a market for the Move. being closer to the tried and tested wii controller will make it easier for people to understand and it has more use in games and applications. how can u play an FPS game or driving game properly with the kinect? i know theres forza kinect but people like to hold onto things, just sticking your hands out and pretending youve got a steering wheel or gun isnt the same as physically holding a controller within a steering wheel or gun casing. and with the Move youve got buttons for various actions. how can u accelerate or do more than a couple things at once with the kinect? if youre pretending youre bowling or boxing or hitting a ball its a lot easier to visualise if youre holding onto something physical. its how we're programmed to work.
theres already dozens of games being upgraded to be Move compatible, such as Heavy rain, resident evil 5, socom, tiger woods, killzone 2 (and killzone 3 when its out) these are all games in the traditional successful genres. it will be a lot harder to get them working with Kinect. i dont see how something like gears of war can be comfortably made to work with connect?? kinect will certainly excell in different genres to the Move and the Move will be better at different things to the kinect. but at the moment it seems to me that the simpler Move has the edge. purely because all the top genres can be easily converted to work with it. and practically any game on the wii can now be ported across if the licensing allows…
great article. i just want to say a few things ( impressive* success* console* dominate* )
@smacken
"With all due respect, an article about ‘no future for kinect and move’ published on a nintendo3ds site needs to be taken with a grain of salt."
Exactly. Would the author please point out the part of the interview where it was actually said that there was "no future for Kinect and Move?" This article is nothing but linkbait.
doesn't matter the console, all fanboys are lame. your all ruining gaming, and are turning the vast majority of legacy gamers off of the scene. I've been around since the days of pong, and nothing gets my goat more that you snotty little bitches who go out of your way to take the fun out of gaming… your destroying something that took decades of hard work and vision to develop from nothing.
The thing is of course 3DS is going to outshine Kinect as 3DS is something new, innovative and something no one has seen before; whereas Kinect is just an EyeToy with better graphics. And with a price like £129 for just a sensor bar when Wii sensors cost like £10/£20 is a bit of an over price tbh it's just Wii without remotes.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!3DS FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1