EA has announced that its upcoming tennis simulator, Grand Slam Tennis 2, won’t come with Kinect support. This comes as a surprise to many (like myself) who don’t understand what motion controllers are for if not tennis games.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Eurogamer, producer Thomas Singleton explains, “The successful Kinect titles are built specifically for that platform.<\/p>\n
“They’re not built for that platform [pointing at a PlayStation 3 unit] and then made to work with the Kinect platform. The games that play well, that’s where the Move controller is treated as a peripheral versus a platform. We’re supporting the peripheral.”<\/p>\n
To make matters even more confusing, the title won’t be available on the Wii, despite the original being a Wii exclusive. Thomas has another attempt at explaining this.<\/p>\n
“We wanted to focus on these platforms. We wanted that photo-real look,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“Developing on the Wii, it’s a different product. When we first came out with the Wii version we were like, okay, we’re going to do all platforms. Then we decided, no, the Wii makes the most sense as it actually has the gesture-based system already in place. Everyone’s loving Wii Sports, but they didn’t go deep enough with it – they just scratched the surface of what we think it was capable of.<\/p>\n
“With the introduction of PlayStation Move we started to get excited again,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Having Move support – that ability to literally put the racquet in the palm of your hands – makes total sense. And now we can do that in high def. We can deliver a project much like our FIFAs, our NHLs, our Fight Nights, that looks to that quality on our platforms.”<\/p>\n