And in this week’s edition of Molyneux Said It!, the Lionhead overlord has compared the advent of Microsoft’s Kinect with the computer mouse. Because they… both have… buttons. Wait.<\/p>\n
“You know what? This is exactly like the mid-80s when we got the Amiga and we started playing with a mouse,” Peter Molyneux tells CVG.<\/a> “I can remember everyone writing about how the mouse is the worst thing for gaming and it took a little while for the development community to start exploring and experiment with it. But out of that exploration and experimentation came Wolfenstein and Doom and real-time strategy games.<\/p>\n “Before that we were all doing stuff with a joystick. I think that any invention as big as Kinect just takes a while for us to get our teeth into. I agree with the scepticism from core gamers because there is no example yet of anything which is as dramatic or as exciting (as a game on a controller) or even an experience that lasts more than 15 minutes. When you get past the idiosyncrasies which every control mechanism has, Kinect is a wonderful device to innovate on.”<\/p>\n But when you get past the idiosyncrasies, there aren’t really any particularly good games. Maybe that’s the real problem? Unless that’s just another idiosyncrasy, of course.<\/p>\n