Spies among us?

[August]

No, I just understand how software is written and shipped. Just have to call people out who obviously have no clue.

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by Spitty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do they have Fruit Ninja for the Wii?

CHECK. MATE.

Levity aside, very few of the features on the modern consoles are marketing gimmicks.

Well, let me clarify. They didn't start as marketing gimmicks.

If you've ever been part of a concept-to-market process, there's this step that happens towards the end. After the think-tanks have conceptualized, after the designers have hypothesized, after the engineers have actualized, but before the public has any idea of what's going on.

That step is marketing.

Marketing takes all that cool shit that dozens or hundreds or thousands of people have been working on, and they sit in a room and ask other marketing people The Question.

"It's cool, but how do we sell it?"

Nobody prior to this step has any fucking say in how their ingenuity is presented to the public. If they do, it's on a consultation basis which essentially means "come talk about what you've loved and labored over for a couple years so we validate your work, but don't expect us to actually listen".

This is how the Xbox One reveal ended up being SPORTS x 1000, TV x 1000 and Call of Duty was reduced to neat camouflage and a canine companion.

This happens constantly. All those engineers that made pixel technology capable of displaying a billion colors start grave-spinning early because the only thing you hear about come market time is "LOOK HOW GODDAMN BLACK IT IS".

I'm absolutely sure that the geniuses up north had some fucking amazing ideas when they were slaving over figuring out how to get a 3D rendering of a person to translate to a heartbeat sensor. The result was a brief mention in the reveal, and a shitbox full of paranoia over how They Know™.

it's the notion of immersion that i'm getting at with the wii statement. does microsoft offer an option that allows the kinect and any of their console's tech features
to not have to be used?

[Spitty]

I don't know about the XBox One, but if I want to play a game on my 360 and don't want the Kinect watching me I just turn the damn thing around so it faces the wall =D. Hasn't caused any problems yet.

I would hope that having all features enabled is not a requirement of playing games on the One. Not everyone has a living room or space for the Kinect visual tracking - I wonder if that thing goes absolutely apeshit on tour buses.

[Lord_Snow]

I see the Xbox One as just giving up your privacy all together at the expense of entertainment

[Clark]

You only live once. Why would you want your existence and experiences to be a fabrication; spies are pitiful.

[Ahldagor]

they proly found bin laden's wow files.