It’s ”cool” and people will want it because its technology, likening it to the allure of Apple’s iPad. ”You’ve gotta have it.” 3D cameras will spread.
”It’s our intent to be the biggest third-party publisher on that machine,” said Ubisoft’s NA boss Laurent Detoc. ”That’s a statement about how we think it’s going to do.”
”We’re only making like half a dozen games. We could have made like 12. There’s a right balance to have,” he said at an event in San Francisco, solely for Kinect.
Will it really explode in sales? ”Yes, I think so. Because it’s cool. It’s a piece of technology. Why do people buy iPads? I have an iPad. My wife has an iPad. Why? You’ve gotta have it,” he explained. The technology in Kinect will inevitably spread elsewhere.
”I don’t want to put a number on that because it would be silly of me, because I don’t have enough knowledge - I would be surprised if the TV I buy five years from now doesn’t have a 3D camera in it. We’re going to put 3D cameras in everything,” he adds.
Is Ubisoft’s technological faith in Microsoft’s Kinect well placed? The publisher gave heavy support to the Nintendo Wii back when it was a real foreign concept as a console.
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