The War for Motion Control Video Gaming Has Begun. "Kinect" is the new name for the controller-free gaming and entertainment experience by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform.
It just took a 76-person cast (dancers, musicians, acrobats, and even some clowns), celebrities from Hollywood, 8m high projection screens totaling more than a football field in length, a 3m tall elephant puppet, and a 12m diameter steel structure that rotates on its axis while weighing as much as 25 VW Beetles.
But a stunning Cirque du Soleil production at E3 (an exclusive 45-minute experience that Cirque du Soleil spent four months developing) gave birth from Project Natal to Kinect. The camera-control technolgy that powers Kinect is from Israel. Maker PrimeSense also has deals with PC and STB makers.
Owners of Nintendo's current home console are perfectly happy with Wii Definition quality: about 1 million Wii users downloaded from the Wii's Netflix streaming service one-month since its launch.
"Q1 2011 is my estimate as to when PC games will be sold completely via digital. I have seen the predictions that by 2013 more than 50% of our revenues will be earned digitally. But if the PC games market has to wait until 2013 then we are all in trouble," one game publisher told press.
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is considering Kindle's search and download tactic for selling new games.