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First Kinect Bloopers Hit the Web

Posted on Saturday, November 6 @ 20:20:18 Eastern by Anthony Severino

Be the controller or be a victim of a Kinect-related injury.

Immediately after the Wii introduced motion controls to the market, the internet was flooded with videos of unfortunate users in all kinds of sad situations. Some lost their grip on the Wii-mote, sending it soaring into their expensive HDTVs. Others inflicted pain and injury to friends and loved ones by not paying close enough attention to where they were flailing their arms.

Kinect just launched this past week, ushering in a new era of controller-less gaming to the masses. The lack of controller would mean no chance to cause harm to your television or injure innocent bystanders, right? Wrong.

Here's all the Kinect-related bloopers we could find thus far. Much more to come we're sure.

This first image shows a picture of a broken LCD screen. But if there's no controller, then how did this even happen? The self-proclaimed moron leaves these wise words of warning:

"Do not under any circumstances play Kinect Sports Volleyball at 1:30 a.m. while standing under a ceiling fan with a dangling chain for a light switch. You could conceivably spike it into your year-old amazing TV, causing it to die with a rainbow LCD teardrop dripping down from the impact wound."

Broken TV? Check. Ceiling fan-related destruction? Check. Now... to slap a little girl in the face and flying elbow a young boy. Check out these embarrassing vids:

Tags: Kinect, Xbox, Xbox 360

Comments

De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Nov 6th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Yup, read that yesterday. Just like Nick's review says, it definitely requires a lot of space. You'd think people would have learned that after how long the Wii has been out. Just because they removed the controller doesn't mean they removed the possibility for you to whack something.

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StopBuggingMe
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Nov 6th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
losers

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Ivory_Soul
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Sorry but the Kinect is too little too late, and Sony already perfect Nintendo's hardware, but all three systems have a lot of shovelware for their systems (the Wii less so), and Kinect really let me down after the amazing tech display from E3 2009.

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jombojohn
Joined: Nov 2010

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 1:41 am
"the Wii less so" You gotta be effing kidding me. The Wii has more shovelware than both PS3 and Xbox put together moron LOL

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cyberjim2000
Joined: Feb 2010

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 2:00 am
I think he's talking about the Move and Kinect exclusively from the Playstation 3 and Xbox360.

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UpAndAtThem
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 6:07 am
What I find funniest is that the Kinect could tell that those two people (second video) were slowly drifting closer and closer together, it just didn't care.

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 6:22 am
lol I love that term, shoverlware... Its a good point though. I can see motion gaming as a fad, with mostly crappy games made that no one will ever buy, while games that actually require a controller will probably stick around. My 2 bits, anyway.

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wildmario
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 10:13 am
For a fad, Nintendo seems to be doing fine.

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bobthequiet
Joined: Sep 2009

Posted: Nov 7th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Every piece of technology has its proper place and application. Personally, I think motion gaming will stick around in some capacity. It all depends on the type of game. For example, I don't see how an FPS along the lines of Halo or CoD could be done without some kind of controller, but other types of games like golf or volleyball work fine with the technology. As far as these bloopers, people just need to be something other than stupid with it.

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NoFundamentalist
Joined: Aug 2007

Posted: Nov 8th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Hey guys,

Kinect will get good sales initially, it'll have one or two "must-have" games, then it will die in a very short amount of time. Sony's Move will have less sales, one or two "must-have" games then die even faster. WiiHD will come out next year and hopefully we'll get the games we all really wanted when we first heard about the Wii.

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Nov 8th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
^Pessimist

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See: NoFundamentalist

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