Kudo Tsunoda says console "is where it's at"
Microsoft Kinect boss Kudo Tsunoda has claimed that "hardly anyone" plays FPS games on PC in 2010.
Tsunoda said that the Halo franchise had tempted FPS nuts over to Xbox - and that, for fans of the genre today, it's "all about the console.
He cited unsuccessful ports of PC FPS games on console as an example of why MS wants to build its Kinect games from the 'ground up'.
"I think that the stuff we have learned about Kinect is that you don't want to take it and port a experience over to Kinect or force it into things, he told Game Informer.
"You see a lot of motion control games that put the motion technology into a random game and that isn't the way to make an awesome experience.
"If you think about the way that first person shooters evolved, they started on the PC. People for the longest time tried to port shooters from the PC onto the console. And people said the same things that they are saying now about Kinect - "It's never going to be responsive enough to do this," or "You're never going to get a fun first person shooter on the console - it's only made for a keyboard and mouse and that is the way it is supposed to be played." And as long as everyone was just porting the existing shooters over to console, they weren't as fun as the PC ones. Of course, they were built for the PC.
He added: "Halo did an awesome job of building a first-person shooter exclusively for the console, and now hardly anyone plays first person shooters on the PC anymore. It's all about the console. And I feel it is the same with Kinect stuff.
"If you are constantly trying to take something that is made for a controller and port it over to Kinect, it's not going to be a good experience because it is made for a controller. If you take the time to build it for Kinect from the ground up, however, you can make something that is a very new experience, but lots of times even more fun than it was before."
MS product director Aaron Greenberg told CVG last week that MS was concentrating on building original games for Kinect.
Kinect is due for launch on November 10 in the UK. Microsoft announced a handful of 'core' games for the device at TGS.
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