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One Simple Reason Why Kinect will Fail: The Name
Guncannon \| 6:19 AM on 06.14.2010	25 comments

Kinect, although definitely a more creative title for a product than Sony's Move, seems to a bit too clever for its own good. It also has to compete in my mind with these other products:

K'Nex

Connect Four

Kinder Surprise

The Kinetoscope

Kindergarten Cop

Therefore, Kinect will be a failure. I called it, folks!

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19 comments | showing # 1 to 19

Corduroy Turtle

If names alone cause failure then the Wii wouldn't have risen to such great heights.

Also, Kindergarten Cop is full of win. Blog post invalid.

Guncannon

Did I say that Kindergarten Cop was bad?

Corduroy Turtle

No...I guess you didn't. Shit.

Aurain

Natal was fine, we got used to it.

Kinect doesn't roll off the tongue, as far as words go, it's actually a pretty awful one to say.

It'll fail because it's shit though, not because of the name.

prrulz

Every time I read it, I see the word Kinetic and go into physics mode (KE = 1\2mv^2!). I have no idea how the rest of my gaming career will work out.

The Silent Protagonist

If "Natal" had kept its project name, I'd be punching people for varying pronunciation. I think "Kinect" is more relevant, it speaks to what the product does.

Handy

Kinects new name is brought to us by Xtreme Marketingz.

Crunshii

kinect is only good if u... use it to kinect a girl o_O

Occams electric toothbrush

I can dig on your thoughts.

Elsa

"Natal" sounded kind of classy after you got used to it. "Kinect" sounds... ummm, yeah, it just sounds stupid for some reason.

ww3pl

I have no idea why did they throw away 'Natal'. Sure, it sounded a lil' bit sissy and it was a name for their prototype, but come on.

You're absolutely right. Honestly, how do you pronounce that?

Char Aznable

Damn you, Occams! Beat me to the punch, and in another language no less!

RenegadePanda

Project Natal sounded like some kind of future space experiment.

Kinect sounds like someone who can't speak English very well.

Occams electric toothbrush

@RegginBolas: A copypasta comment? Nice, broseph.

Oh and if you want more fucking middle-class try Branson. They have such lovely events and things.

LawofThermalDynamics

I agree.

necrozen

For real gamers, Kinect will fail because of lack of precision. Grandma may buy it, but unless you're a microsoft stockholder, wtf do we care if another demographic adopts it? All a gamer should care about is how it affects them as a gamer.

As far as I'm concerned it has already failed and it has nothing to do with the name.

manasteel88

I said the same thing about changing the Revolution to the Wii and look how that turned out. Though for some reason I'm still not going to like this one. At least with the Wii I kinda understood what it was for. Wireless Interface and whatnot.

beverlynoelle

I kinda like the name Kinect. I thought it was sort of dumb at first, but it's grown on me. I like that it's kind of a clever play on "kinetic," while also reinforcing the idea that it's a product designed to help make gaming social. Also, "Project Natal" sounded kinda like a Gundam Wing spinoff.

Davoidbot

I hate the name "kinect" sooooo much. Now, I know the name of it has nothing to do with the actual merits of the product, but every time that I hear "kinect" I want to slap whoever came up with that name and say "NO". The name's spelling is just so freaking douchey.

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