Microsoft is having none of that nonsense pledges Albert Penello. More vital to have ”a handful” of great games than a ton with ”waggle added”.
”We don’t want shovelware, we don’t want ports, we don’t want stuff with motion controls tacked onto it,” said director of platform marketing for Xbox, Albert Penello, speaking with Gamasutra. No pricing exists for Kinect yet, even though it’s priced at $150.
”We’re basically asking publishers to go out and make exclusive content for this new technology and this new customer.”
”To me it’s way more important to have a handful of really good game titles that take advantage of the tech than 40 titles of which half of them are controller games with waggle added onto them,” he continued. The arrival of Wii saw a ‘golden age’ of shovelware.
Hopefully both Microsoft and Sony will keep their promises in making sure to deliver us quality releases for both Kinect and PlayStation Move - otherwise they’ll be little difference in the end between the next-gen motion platforms and Nintendo Wii after all.
