{"id":7016,"date":"2010-08-05T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"fable-iii-scraps-kinect-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/7016-fable-iii-scraps-kinect-support","title":{"rendered":"Fable III scraps Kinect support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionhead overlord and general industry guru Peter Molyneux has told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/08\/04\/the-engadget-show-live-with-peter-molyneux-windows-phone-7-bl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Endgadget<\/a>&nbsp;that Fable III will not support Microsoft&rsquo;s motion control device, Kinect. At least not at launch, as was previously planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The reason given is that Fable III&rsquo;s Kinect implementation simply was not of a high enough standard to be included in the final release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/08\/04\/molyneux-fable-3-will-not-include-kinect-functionality-at-launc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a>&nbsp;got in touch with Microsoft, who said that while Molyneux is still a big proponent of their new motion tech, he just doesn&rsquo;t think it would be of value in Fable III at &ldquo;this time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fable III is due for release on Xbox 360 on October 26, while the PC release has been pushed back, with no specific release date confirmed just yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kinect is expected to be launched in early November 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Check out MyGaming&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/6503-Hands-with-Microsofts-Kinect.html  \" target=\"_self\">hands-on impressions of Kinect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Molyneux declares Fable III will not launch Kinect-compatible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}