{"id":77,"date":"2005-12-14T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T02:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/this-isnt-a-gaming-blog-or-what-a-waste\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T04:53:52","slug":"this-isnt-a-gaming-blog-or-what-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/this-isnt-a-gaming-blog-or-what-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t a gaming blog (or what a waste)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <strike>isn&#8217;t<\/strike>  wasn&#8217;t a gaming blog but I have to state my disappointment with Sony&#8217;s latest, just-in-time for xmas release &#8220;Kintetic&#8221;.  I&#8217;m not disappointed with the game itself  because I haven&#8217;t played it yet.  I *loved* it at E3 this year, for lots of reasons and spent some time talking with Marc Parry, one of the developers about where I can see the Eyetoy heading.  Read all about last summer&#8217;s enthusiasm <a href=\"http:\/\/sweptout.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/sonys-kinetic-at-e3-2005.html\"> here<\/a>.   I&#8217;m anxious to play it &#8211; but I don&#8217;t see that happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>I am a very big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyetoy.com\">Eyetoy <\/a>fan.  Antigrav, Play2 and DDR Extreme (1 and 2) all get thumbs up from me for they way they are reshaping gaming (and users).<\/p>\n<p>But the grief:  <!--more--> I was doing some shopping yesterday, looking for some suitable gifts for the people I love, and of course trying to indulge my own love of gadgetry at the same time.  Browsing the games I saw it:  Kinetic has been released.  But not just the game.  No no no.  It&#8217;s the game *and* the Eyetoy camera bundled together.  <\/p>\n<p>At E3 they said the plan was to bundle the game with a fisheye lens cap for the current Eyetoy.  This new game\/experience requires the camera to catch the user&#8217;s full body, so the old lens won&#8217;t do.  The idea as I was told was that a cap would fit over the old lens to make it work with Kinetic.  Beautiful idea thought I.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/ga1.js\"> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script> <\/div>\n<p>But now, no.  The salespeople all tell me that the only way I can get this game is to buy an Eyetoy &#8211; which I already have.  When my house was robbed last summer the Eyetoy was one of the things we really missed and I replaced it rather quickly compared to other things.  Before the DDR dancemats even which really suprised me.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyetoykinetic.com\/language.html\">official site <\/a>claims I can get just the game but what about the lens?  The salesperson suggested I buy the bundle and sell or toss my old camera.  How wasteful is that?  <\/p>\n<p>What happened to the plan people?????  How about some information upfront so I can stop digging for it and start playing? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyetoy Kinetic is out but I don&#8217;t want to buy another Eyetoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,38,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}