Justin Bieber Proves that Core Gamers Won’t be Alienated by the Kinect
President of Entertainment and Devices Division Robbie Bach in January;
Take your hardcore gamer, they’re going to love Natal.
I hope you guys weren’t actually worried that Microsoft was just feeding us line after line of bullshit about the Kinect being as much for hardcore gamers as it would be for casual gamers. If you were, this video should, like, TOTALLY put your mind at ease. Sure, their conference at E3 was among the greatest tragedies in human history, rivaled only by King Lear and the United States losing to Ghana, but we are all just being too harsh about that, right? I mean, after all, those things they said about the Kinect being for hardcore gamers too, (“But they will absolutely love Natal”) it isn’t like they would just be paying us PR lip-service and lying to us directly, right?
Certainly, it would be great if they announced some hugely awesome game that used the Kinect entirely, instead of these vague references to games for core gamers being “Kinect capable.” That would really shut everyone up. Maybe even if they came out and announced a line-up of core oriented titles due out in the future? Really, even if they just came out and said “look everybody, we’re making this for casual gamers, chill out” like Sony alluded to with their Move, everybody might calm down a little bit.
But instead, they found the absolutely perfect way to put these negative publicity flames out. With one swoop, Microsoft reached into it’s back of tricks and partnered with the only person they could think of that could bridge the gap between hardcore and casual alike. They looked in their mirror and said his name three times, they pulled out their flute-dagger and played a tune until he came rumbling up from the ocean, they leveled up outside of the Gold Saucer until they were strong enough to summon him- they invoked his name and from the heavens one person descended down from his perch high above the stars and doth settled our fears once and for all with a simple wave of his hand. His name?
Bieber.
Take your hardcore gamer, they’re going to love Natal.
