Director of platform marketing wants no Call of Duty for Kinect
Microsoft has always stressed that Kinect’s impact on gaming will have something in it for the hardcore gamers, so when its director of platform marketing told Gamasutra said they didn’t want any shovelware for the device, that’s pretty much expected. But what if he said that he didn’t want a mass-selling franchise like Call of Duty in it? That’s another story.
Microsoft has always stressed that Kinect’s impact on gaming will have something in it for the hardcore gamers, so when its director of platform marketing told Gamasutra said they didn’t want any shovelware for the device, that’s pretty much expected. But what if he said that he didn’t want a mass-selling franchise like Call of Duty in it? That’s another story.
“We don’t want shovelware, we don’t want ports, we don’t want stuff with motion controls tacked onto it,” said Chris Penello “That’s not a slam to our competitors.” “We wanted original games that were really taking advantage of what our technology does.”
We continue to say that the controller is the best experience for controller games. When people say, ‘Why don’t you have Halo?’ Well, I don’t want Halo on Kinect. I want Halo on a controller. Now would it be interesting to see what kind of game they could make using Kinect? Yeah, I would love to see what those guys could do, or what the Call of Duty guys could do. But I don’t want to play Call of Duty 4, I want Call of Duty: Black Ops on the controller. So yeah, I’m really, really happy with the stuff that [publishers] are doing. … The most interesting stuff is going to be what comes out six months to a year from now when people come to grips with the technology and really start taking advantage of it.