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微软发售Kinect平台可能揭开微软游戏社交化的新纪元

发布时间:2010-09-11 12:08:11 Tags:,,

游戏记者往往见惯了血腥暴力的核心类射击和冒险游戏,然而在此次展开的微软Xbox 360新款免手柄Kinect平台发布会上,众记者显得有点不知所措。

在座落于迪拜互联网城的微软办公司中,微软的官方成员表示将于11月10日在UAE正式发布的内置摄像头Kinect平台及其15款游戏将开创家庭参与的社交游戏新纪元。

Xbox Kinect平台是一款免手柄的游戏设备,其中包含了钳式传感器和摄像头,两者的串联后,Kinect可以辨别玩家的肢体活动和面部表情,从而向电脑传输特定的指令完成任务。

Kinect设备也可以和全球目前已出售的4000万台Xbox相兼容。

Kinect

Kinect

在新品发布会上,Kinect的代表现场演示了该新设备的游戏方法:跟着音乐跳舞,与电子宠物玩耍等等。由于有了新式的Kinect技术,所有的一切不再需要用到游戏手柄。

面对新发布的Kinect平台设备,不少记者纷纷提问:Kinect是否可以坐着玩?——而其中最令人关注的问题便是Xbox在将来是否会发在Kinect平台上布其最为之自豪的射击类游戏?

社交焦点

新品发布会上,有这么一位记者认为本次发布的新游戏十分“无聊”,将令广大的核心游戏玩家大失所望。

对此,在Gulfnews的采访中, 微软娱乐和设备部门总裁Armagan Demir声明,Xbox并没有抛弃老主顾。

Demir并不排除未来将在Kinect平台上开发射击冒险类游戏的可能性。他指出Kinect是一个新平台,需要花费一定的时间来研发合适的游戏种类。未来随着Kinect平台逐渐成熟,微软将会开发更多的面向核心玩家的游戏。

由于“没有过多的涉略这方面的情况”,Demir无法预计未来的Kinect游戏发展情况,但是他表示“如同星球大战一类的动作游戏是必不可少的”,并称“目前已经有部分游戏正在开发中。”

Demir表示Kinect平台可以与Xbox 360互相取长补短。新型的Kinect娱乐游戏系统可以吸引不同的游戏全体,他们并不是传统的核心游戏玩家,他对游戏手柄复杂的操作方式并不感兴趣,Kinect平台的游戏方式将更适合于社交或家庭类游戏。

更长的游戏时间

一般来说,核心游戏玩家可以连续10小时玩游戏,而Xbox Kinect玩家则不同,他们往往认为核心类的游戏太过于刺激恐怖。

对于那些同时拥有Xbox和Kinect设备的玩家,微软目前精心开发了15款游戏在9月10日正式发售。而对于那些还没有购买Xbox或Kinect的游戏玩家,微软公司也组织了各种优惠活动。

Demir像我们介绍,Kinect Adventures发布的20款游戏中,包括白浪漂流和山地障碍赛。此外还有Dance Central,一款包含了30首榜首音乐的舞蹈游戏,无需跳舞机垫便可以记录玩家所有的舞步。

在新发售的各款游戏中,最有潜力成为销量冠军的是囊括了足球等各种体育运动的Kinect Sports。与手柄式的游戏不同,Kinect玩家需要实实在在的用脚踢一颗并不存在的足球。

最后,介绍一款最为奇特的游戏Kinectimals,游戏中玩家将饲养一直虚拟宠物。玩家可以自由地伸手抚摸可爱的小狮子,神奇的是,您的手就会出现在游戏屏幕上。

Kinect如何操作你的游戏?

·据早前消息称,Kinect将与16款Xbox平台游戏在11月4日正式发售。

·新型的Kinect技术可以以每秒30个画面的速度模仿人体的全部活动。

·其传感器可以同时追踪人体48个关键点的运动状况。

·3个摄像头同时检测人体及表情活动。

·Kinect可以和旧版的Xbox 360相兼容。(Source:Gulfnews)

Dubai: Gaming journalists, accustomed to writing about blood-and-gore hardcore shooter and adventures games, seemed a bit puzzled earlier this week at Microsoft’s official rollout of Xbox 360′s new controller-free Kinect technology.

At Microsoft offices in Dubai Internet City, officials said the new webcam Kinect add-on device and the 15 new game titles to be released November 10 in the UAE will allow families to partake in a new era of social gaming.

Xbox’s Kinect is a “controller-free gaming device” in the form of a black sensor unit with cameras which work in tandem to map and recognise body and facial movements to instruct computers to perform certain tasks.

It will also work with the estimated 40 million Xbox 360 consoles sold globally.

Kinect representatives gave live demonstrations of the game by dancing to music, playing with electronic pets and engaging in a fitness routine, all thanks to the new Kinect technology that doesn’t require plastic handheld controllers.

One journalist asked if the new Kinect games could be played sitting down — another query was whether popular hardcore first-person shooter games, that helped build Xbox into a successful brand, would be released in the future.

Social focus

One journalist muttered the new games were “boring” adding that millions of core gamers would be disappointed with the Kinect technology and its apparent social-gaming focus.

In an interview with Gulf News, Armagan Demir, Head of Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division, said that Xbox was not abandoning its hardcore gamer audience.

He assured longtime users that as the new Kinect platform matured, more games would come on to the market.

“This is a new platform — it takes some time for [game] publishers to explore what kind of genre they can come up with. Game development takes some time,” he said.

Demir didn’t rule out the future roll-out of shooter and adventure games within the new Kinect platform, noting that there are already some games in the pipeline designed to get the heart rates of core gamers pumping.

“You need to have a completely new approach to gaming with this new technology,” Demir said. “I think it will take some ramp-up time.”

Demir said he couldn’t divulge the kind of new games coming to Kinect because he didn’t “have the visibility at this level” but said there are “fighting titles such as Star Wars” in the works. “There are plenty of titles under development,” he said.

That said, Demir stated that Kinect is more of a complementary platform to the existing Xbox 360 console. The central thrust of the new entertainment and gaming system was to attract a new audience, not familiar with traditional core gaming, those who, perhaps, are not particularly interested in learning the intricate controls of the plastic gaming controllers that have dominated play for years. “Definitely this type of technology is more fitting to social and family gaming,” he said.

Longer hours

“Hardcore gamers can sit and play for 10 hours straight. You can’t do that with the Xbox Kinect. There will [always] be controller gaming. I don’t think the audience will let that go. But there is an audience who finds hardcore gaming intimidating.”

For new owners of the Xbox and Kinect, Microsoft has carefully developed 15 new games that will be launched on November 10, with Kinect Adventures game being bundled with every purchase of the Kinect sensor for Dh699 (the suggested retail price). The complete bundle of Xbox 360 4GB will be sold for Dh1,399 and the Xbox 250 GB bundle will be sold for Dh1,650.

Kinect Adventures, said Demir, offers 20 different gaming adventures including white-water rafting and a mountain obstacle course.

Other new releases include Dance Central, a dance game to 30 chart-topping tunes that doesn’t require floor mats to record foot movements.

One of the new titles Xbox believes will be a top-seller is Kinect Sports, featuring all kinds of sporting activities including football, or soccer as it’s called in North America.

Unlike hand-controlled soccer games, Kinect players can actually use their feet to virtually kick the ball during the session.

One of the more unusual games demonstrated at the roll-out last week, Kinectimals, featured electronic virtual pets that can learn tricks and interact with Kinect users. Gamers can use their hands freely to reach out and pet a baby lion, for example, and the user’s hands magically appear on the screen.

How Kinect will control your game

•Previously known as top-secret Project Natal, Kinect will be launched on November 4 in the US along with 16 new Xbox 360 electronic gaming titles.
•The new Kinect technology can perform full-motion tracking of the human body at 30 frames per second.
•The sensors track 48 points from the human body.
•Three cameras work simultaneously to monitor body and facial movements.
•Kinect is compatible with older versions of Xbox 360. (Source:Gulfnews)

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