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If you've walked into a Gamestop recently you might have seen the above. It's what I was greeted with about a week ago and it currently occupies the first 2 shelves of the 'New Releases' section.
Prepare for a lot more of this. Particularly disheartening is that the very first game on those shelves is Kinectimals.
At the second Gamestop in downtown Seattle the display had a little more pizaz!
And then, my friends and parters in grime, I found something quite special while digging through the dead and sometimes forgotten used PS2 games bin. Something that made me put out a hearty laugh which echoed off the walls of the store, causing some to look nervously in my direction.
What an incestuous industry we follow.
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14 years, 11 months ago
Hah. Oh man. That last picture is pretty hilarious. Forgot all about that game.
But yeah. Screw Kinectimals. I really hope we get more... "hardcore" games on the Kinect. Which is something I'm less worried about on Move; from what we've seen so far, Move looks to be getting some fairly decent looks support down the line.
14 years, 11 months ago
I think we go to the same Gamestop Joseph >.>
14 years, 11 months ago
I see a celebrity death match game in the bin! you should have bought that. :D
14 years, 11 months ago
gamestop is awsome i was there yesturday...but i didnt see anything like that up on the shelves.
14 years, 11 months ago
When do we get a Kinect game where we kill people? Some real murder simulator >:]
14 years, 11 months ago
You're psycho s1yfox. O:
14 years, 11 months ago
I might wait to get a kinect game. I can be sure that's going to be cheap in a couple of years.
-Alex
14 years, 11 months ago
Some kids are probably going to get that eye toy game for Christmas from grandma instead of a Kinect.
It's pretty surreal seeing all the Kinect hype though. To me, it's a no-brainer that Kinect isn't going to last, because honestly, driving with your butt with a short delay isn't fun, and we probably won't see many uses for it more creative than that. I think it'll still sell on hype about the technology. It will be Wii x 10. People will get ten times more excited about it, and bored with it ten times as fast.
I would laugh pretty hard though if I was wrong and even casual audiences didn't want to play Kinect games.
14 years, 11 months ago
ps2 had kinetic now xbox 360 has kinect wow how times have changed
14 years, 11 months ago
UPDATE: Upon further research on the web and from buddies of mine, Anaheim and Fullerton Gamestop stores have similar setups.god help us all
14 years, 11 months ago
You need to put this picture up where alot of people can see it.
This is hilarious and might (if we're lucky) hurt the sales of this cheap Wii rip-off
14 years, 11 months ago
Has anyone seen that VGCats comic about Kinect? Overall it was alright, but the punchline at the bottom was pretty spot-on:
The Sell:
"I can't wait to buy the future of gaming! Jump in with Kinect!"
The Reality:
Leo: Hey, are you going to buy that new XBox thing?
Aeris: Fuck no, I've already got a Wii.
^^^ That pretty much sums it up. I mean, the Wii was DESIGNED around motion-control, and it still utilizes controllers. You expect me to believe you when you say that some add-on to an already existing console will have superior motion-control technology? Yeah, right.
14 years, 11 months ago
OMG Joseph, I saw that the other day looking through my gamestops PS2 section and I just laughed and said "That is so freaking terrible" lol, the gaming industry really has become unoriginal lol.
14 years, 11 months ago
HAH! That's hilarious. FREAKING FAIL!
14 years, 11 months ago
Kinect can only hope to one day be associated with Pirate Monkeys.
The last picture made me laugh.