kinnect or move + console

I toyed with the idea of both and went for the Kinect. For me, I would just run into the same things that put me off the Wii with the Move, for "serious" games I want to use a pad for accuracy and response. I never got on with the sort of controls in Wii games like Metroid, which I'm fairly certain are similar to what the Move will be like with PS3 FPS games.

The Kinect, although currently limited, is immense fun. Much more than I ever thought it would be before buying it. Unlike the Wii, it is genuinely making me fitter at the same time as well.
 
My sister bought a kinect and she loves it, it is a lot of fun. you do need some room between you and the sensor. It will work with about 4ft but we move the sofa to get to about 6ft and it works much better
 
I bought a Kinect for Xmas. Kids love Kinectimals, the wife is never off Your Shape Evolved, very nice piece of kit. Went over to my mates who has a PS3 and Move, after spending 10 minutes trying to get it to calibrate you inside the on-screen box, touching your shoulder, and then your kn*b with the controller we gave up. Call me anXBox fanboi, but Kinect worked out of the box, my 5 year old got it in minutes. Move is too much of a faff and the technology seems flakey - but that is just my experience.

As a foot note, he came over to play on my Kinect, he's now trading his PS3 and Move in for an XBox and Kinect
 
I've got a Wii, PS3 with two Move Controllers, and for Xmas, was given the Xbox 360S with Kinect.

Kinect frankly ****s all over the other two. Move is great as a pointer, and things like tumble are great, but there's far, FAR more potential with kinect, especially with the resolution firmware upgrade imminent.

It'll be even better when they inevitably release games which combine kinect and the controller.
 
I have both the move and the kinect, and so far I'm suprised HOW LITTLE i've used either. I hope that changes in the future.. Especially considering how much I've invested. $350 in total.

Move seems a lot more accurate and the Kinect needs a lot of space. But so far, both have been a bit of a wet firework for me.. Neither of my kids have really taken much interest and the missus thinks I'm now gay after catching me swaying like a puff during a session of the Dance Central demo, wearing only my grids & following the moves from the woman character.
 
Gotta say I was against the Kinect after playing with an earlier model, but after picking one up in the sales, I'm now a convert.

Ok, so the games aren't 'hardcore' but boy are they fun, and after all, isn't that what gaming is supposed to be about?
 
I have the move and its quite good for the sports games and it has a lot of potential for future games, fps etc.

The new gun controllers coming out for it look like they could be interesting, combining time crisis style shooting, with your standard fps movement and controls. All depends i guess on the accuracy and the ability to customize the controls.

I tried Resident evil 5, was impressed but couldnt find the energy to complete the game again and gave up. Waiting for Killzone 3 now.

I do however use the Navigation controller on my PC for Bad company 2 and cod. I find the Nav controller with the mouse to be quite good and more comfortable to game with. You obv need to map the buttons correctly but when i found the right setup it was no difference speed wise to using a keyboard, for swapping weapons, sprinting, jumping, etc. With my mouse and Nav controller setup i can map everything i need bar typing/talking commands, but i use a headset to combat that problem :)
 
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I have the move and its quite good for the sports games and it has a lot of potential for future games, fps etc.

The new gun controllers coming out for it look like they could be interesting, combining time crisis style shooting, with your standard fps movement and controls. All depends i guess on the accuracy and the ability to customize the controls.

I tried Resident evil 5, was impressed but couldnt find the energy to complete the game again and gave up. Waiting for Killzone 3 now.

I do however use the Navigation controller on my PC for Bad company 2 and cod. I find the Nav controller with the mouse to be quite good and more comfortable to game with. You obv need to map the buttons correctly but when i found the right setup it was no difference speed wise to using a keyboard, for swapping weapons, sprinting, jumping, etc. With my mouse and Nav controller setup i can map everything i need bar typing/talking commands, but i use a headset to combat that problem :)
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I like the idea of replicating your Move Navigation controller setup. What software do you need to get that up and running, if you don't mind me asking?
 
You need a driver to get it to work, if you type it in to search engine shouldn't be too difficult to find it.

To install on windows 7 is the tricky bit, you need to plug it in, go to control panel, devices and printers,
right click on the navigation controller icon, go to the hardware tab in properties, highlight the human interface device function, and properties. In there you need to install the driver, click on recommended drivers from a list, then 'Have Disk'. Then you install the driver for the nav controller over that.

Restart windows, press F8 before booting in and then disable driver signing. Then you if you go to device manager it should show up there as working.

You will need a controller mapper program next like Xpadder, then map the keyboard buttons to the nav controller as you wish.

Hope this helps.
 
Ste59w said:
You need a driver to get it to work, if you type it in to search engine shouldn't be too difficult to find it.

To install on windows 7 is the tricky bit, you need to plug it in, go to control panel, devices and printers,
right click on the navigation controller icon, go to the hardware tab in properties, highlight the human interface device function, and properties. In there you need to install the driver, click on recommended drivers from a list, then 'Have Disk'. Then you install the driver for the nav controller over that.

Restart windows, press F8 before booting in and then disable driver signing. Then you if you go to device manager it should show up there as working.

You will need a controller mapper program next like Xpadder, then map the keyboard buttons to the nav controller as you wish.

Hope this helps.
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Plug it in? You mean you can't use it on wireless then ?
 
It's possible, i just couldnt be bothered to try and figure out how.

I'm happy just using the usb wire. I guess you'd just need a bluetooth wireless receiver for your pc and a suitable driver for wireless.
 
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