Comment by dooglius

3 years ago

To provide some historical context for this meme, the Xbox One had recently been unveiled and at the time was going to have a mandatory Kinect. It was rumored that the camera would be un-disableable and on at all times.

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mehlmao  3 years ago

The "User attempting to steal online gameplay" bit came from Cliff Blezinski et al saying that splitscreen multiplayer and co-op was a mistake, because half the people who played didn't pay for the game. In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate.

EDIT: The Kinnect had a microphone in it too

  • doctorpangloss  3 years ago

    > In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate.

    Split screen multiplayer evaporated for many reasons. Besides business it's also technology.

    I'm not sure you'll find a single indie split screen multiplayer game that uses a modern, queued graphics pipeline (Unity HDRP or Unreal 4+). Even among big commercial games, Fortnite notably supports 2 player split screen, but Rocket League, Borderlands and Gears of War are all Unreal 3 I think.

    • EdwardDiego  3 years ago

      Me and my son love couch co-op games, but yeah, doing split-screen can be hard to get right, especially around text and UI elements.

  • feedsmgmt  3 years ago

    Local multiplayer is back thanks to Steam and their "Remote Play Together" feature. Remote players connect to the hosts screen share. It is excellent. No extra licenses required.

0xfai  3 years ago

The Kinect Azure is pretty badass. I see why they would say that and it is very funny. I work in computer vision and NUI R&D and it's really hard to understate the accomplishment that is Kniect. I get why most people don't want to play dance games and don't like the machine looking at them but it is REALLY hard to package up solid solutions for the problem the Kinect solves and the Azure and surprisingly it's cross platform SDK are IMO one of the most beautiful tools every produced by humans.