Kinect getting light gun peripheral similar to PlayStation Move

Microsoft’s Kinect will be getting a controller peripheral very soon.

Microsoft's Kinect will be getting a controller peripheral very soon. Accompanying Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012, the game will ship with a gun peripheral called the" Top Shot Sport". The gun will interact with the Kinect device by using three light bulbs that are said to relay information to the camera. Explained by MTV, the gun is said to resemble a PlayStation Move wand, with trigger presses turning the bulb on the end of the device a different color.

Sensors within the device are also said to allow the Kinect to track your body movement. Details were slim, and whether or not there are any other games on the horizon that plan to use add-on controllers for the Kinect were not revealed. Though this could signal that shooters are looking to the possibility of borrowing some of the features that make the PlayStation Move's Sharpshooter peripheral a perfect match for the genre.

Source: MTV

By Al McCarthy on September 8, 2011

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30 COMMENTS

Allen
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I called this a long time ago. Kinect can’t do shooters unless they had a gun or something that you can hold.
Now this is starting to get interesting. but still it looks like you xbots are getting the lighted dildo now. LMAO, not so bad anymore is it?
theveggiejerk
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You know what they say: “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em”
NotAllen
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Allen, why do you hate on xbox/microsoft so much? Were you ripped off? Did they steal your ideas? Do you work for Sony? If not, you have no reason to hate against it. They do not force you to like them. They do not force you to play their systems. I think that you’re just a sad little fggot who has nothing better to do than to yell at people who honestly don’t care about having to pay for live. Or who don’t give a shit if they don’t have fricken Blu-ray. Or who could honestly not care less whether or not the system has exclusives. I think you just need to shut up about video games, technology, or life in general, and stop being such a frickin biased fanboy
- Allen
  I hate Xbox because I love gaming. Simple enough even for a douche bag like you.
  Have you not ever read my posts, do you not see why I hate xbox so much? Why are xbots so blind that they don’t see it.
  Xbox made the consumer suffer just to be out first – RROD
  Micro$oft made Halo 2 on PC, Vista only – Scam to push new OS
  Xbox is the only gaming platform pay to play
  Xbox is the only streaming platform, “pay” for the “right” to “pay” for subscription to hulu or netflix
  Xbox is the only gaming platform without a browser, even Wii has a browser
  Everything xbox does is the most expensive and limited Example:
  No wifi for 5 + years (add $100)
  Proprietary Expensive Limited HDD (limted to 250gb and most expensive, $90 on sale, $120 regular)
  **Where PS3 can be upgraded to any SATA 4.5″ HDD, can get from newegg or amazon for $50 – 500GB**
  Xbox controllers, gotta eat AA batteries or pay $20 for battery pack – making their controller $70 each, that’s without blue tooth & no gyroscope.
  360′s do scratch disks, I don’t care who you are, accidents happen, even if you bump the console it’s possible it can ruin a $60 game. Check youtube video’s.
  Plus it’s only come down $100 in 6 freaking years. Where as PS3 was too expensive at $600, now the most value in the world, down $350.
  4GB 360 is also a scam, only enough room for 1 good game or 4 crappy Kinect games (even xbots admit kinect sucks)
  So $299 for a console with no blu ray, pay to play bla bla bla listed above.
  Xbox has indeed made games suffer due to it’s limited disk capacity and processing power.
  Xbox is a semi success and now we get online passes, COD Elite pay service, publishers pushing to get rid of disks so that all digital download can control who plays it, every one that does must pay.
  Xbox plays dirty, see artical here on AOTFB
  http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/xbox-live-giving-game-publishers-a-raw-deal/
  So in my eyes Xbox not only is a total rip off, but it’s hurt the gaming industry and I really can’t stand how well it sells in the US. I must blame parents for not doing research before buy (they don’t know it’s the only one pay to play) and I must blame kids for not caring, their friends have 360 so they want 360.
  Every 360 gamer I know has now switched to PS3. Well except my cousin, but that’s because he’s a poor bastard, he wants one. None of them regret it and just about all of them now make fun of 360 (lightly like the old disk tray and power brick). Hell all the xbots I’ve converted didn’t even know that PS3 had free online play.
  And at least PS+ actually gives you something for your paid service, free games, free map packs, free themes, free avatars etc., full game trials, early access to betas, discounted games, discounted map packs.
  Then of course PS3 also has a free tv/movie show streaming service Crackle.
- Zzz
  Good post NotAllen, very informative and concise points.
- Cool dude
  Dont tell me you wasted your life writing this S*** down
Bacon
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I predict that their will be more lagging between the peripheral and the kinect
plopo
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Sad sad little man, get a fukin life!!!!!
WADE13x
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Lol Sony figured this out awhile ago with the PS2 eyetoy which is why they added the move along with the camera. And now M$ is copying lol.
- Donky Dic
  I loved this part of the artical:
  “Though this could signal that shooters are looking to the possibility of borrowing some of the features that make the PlayStation Move’s Sharpshooter peripheral a perfect match for the genre.”
  LMAO, okay so xbox didn’t copy sony on the eye toy and now I suppose xbots will say that they didn’t copy the move either.
  I’ll save you the trouble. yes they did.
plopo
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Back on topic I think the potential of kinect plus other addons could be very good if worked correctly and not too costly.
DEF1
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@ allen hows the cross game private chat working out for you….Oh wait the PS3 cant do it. and how was the month offline must have sucked. As for the online pass thats not Microsoft its the greedy a$$ publishers trying to punish gamestop for selling used games and gamers for buying them. I own both the ps3 and the xbox 360 The ps3 is a great blu ray player no doubt. but I’ve never been a fan of PS controllers so I don’t game on mine all that much but it did rock a kevin smith view askew marathon I did a couple days ago. Also battery’s don’t cost 20 the cost 10 and anyone that pays full price for anything well as they say a fool and his money are soon parted.Good job making fun of your cousin cause he’s poor you seem to be a hateful stuck up little prick “just an observation”. anyway gaming is for fun dont take it so seriously paly what u want and HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!!
- Zzz
  Haha I almost forgot that PS3 can’t do cross-game chat hahahaha they’re fucking light years behind when it comes to online
- Donky Dic
  1 month? I thought it was 3 weeks.
  Glad $60/year is worth cross game chat/party chat for you.
  Oh and I suppose you will say Xbox live wasn’t down for 2 weeks back in 2007 and that no personal information has ever been taken from it right?
  Maybe if you think xbox is not a rip off long enough it will come true!
Larry
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You xbots just can’t admit you pay for a worthless service. Would it kill you to admit it?! We can admit sony f*cked up so why can’t you admit xbox live is worthless?! You stinking failbox breaks constantly. Microsoft raised xbox’s live price and what did you get?! NOTHING. So go ahead, continue to lie to yourself. Live is overrated!!!!
- DEF1
  Look brother as I stated before
- DEF1
  Look brother as I stated before I don’t pay full price for anything its called being smart with your money
  I have never paid more than 25 bucks for a year of live ever and Ive had the service over 8 years the Live service is amazing and just about everything that’s come to the PSN is a cheap knock off of Live
  If the PS3 was so much more powerful why did they just admit a couple weeks ago it can not and will not ever have cross game chat because of lack of ram . Why are there games no more groundbreaking than Xbox 360 games and why did they basically make an expensive wii knock off controller for their system. I agree that the kinect is not perfect but its different and pretty damn original if you ask me.I hope the PS Move and Kinect both become more than they are now. But all this xbot bull$#!t is very immature. once again I will say play games on the system of your choice and don’t be a complete douche to anyone that doesn’t agree with you. The xbox 360 constantly adds features updates its dashboard every couple years and works hard at keeping itself relevant, The ps3 has stripped many of the features that I found attractive and were the reason I bought the system.Where the heck is my linux and backwards compatibility its gone the way of the dodo bird so now you want to play old games buy the new hi def versions or the original versions of their market that’s an expensive endeavor when you have the original disk sitting in yor room collecting dust. it is a great blu ray player probably best on the market no doubt but its online gaming is a joke, In this world you get what you pay for. Anyway play games have fun and stop all the hate its a freaking hobby not your whole life,at least I hope its not your whole life that would be pretty sad and as always HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!
Allén
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I obviously have no life so leave me alone please all i want is to play games good i admit i loooveee Xbox :) and i am a virgin btw ;)
Jason
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Ok I see we have a console war here! hey guys, Im one of the few who have both systems and like both systems. Sure ps3 has bluray and a webbrowser (wich is shitty do to no plugins), but still a browser and good exc games for it. And the Xbox has (Get ready) BETTER ONLINE SERVICE, sorry but its true sure u have to pay $4.60 a month but that is no big deal at all since most people spend that a day for ciggs. There is features on live that PS3 does not have and the downloads are alot faster on live but u get what u pay for.
Xbox has great exc games to, and sure it took them awhile to get things straight for theyre system, I personally had RROD and i bought a slim and LOVE IT, They both have almost Identical hardware specs but the PS3 has the cell proccessor which is a little better do to spu gpu seperation. The bottom line is they both are great and better at different things, its all about what u like and what fan you are….Haters gonna Hate!
cheesewaffle1
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this pisses me off!!!… but i know im getting it
newagewolf
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allen is a troll the like of which these interwebs have never seen what all you keep talking about money so the ps3 cost less overall very true but the wii cost less than a ps3 and free online so by your logic thats the best one out there right
asdf
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HEY M$ i thought “you ARE the controller”?
- Cool dude
  And to counter your comment: Sony had the motto “it only does everything”, It doesnt have linux and doesnt have ps2 backwards compability :P
- Drake
  It had ps2 backward compatibility and linux until piraters manage to crack the ps3 through it, If your’re really that desperate to play a ps2 game get an emulator for pc. Seriously xbox got nothing on playstation, the first xbox came out one year later than the ps2 but it only managed 25 million units in its lifespan compared to 150 million for ps2, the ps3 came out one year later than the xbox 360 but it managed 52 million as of 2010 compared to 55 million for xbox 360 and it will overtake it by next year im pretty sure the king of console ever is playstation
titan
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Why can’t psn players admit Sony was forced to add features to compete with live. Everything great on psn is due to Xbox, you’re welcome!
Nimba
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And what does xbox do? oh make you pay more, and more, and more. Waste of money and i proudly say I’ve bought lots more games since i dont waste $ on live. Live is garbage.
jason
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ugh u have to pay for psn to get everything to u dumbasses! i have a ps3 and u idiots are making ourselves look stupid!
Allen
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What the fk do we have to pay for on PSN to get everything? Nothing.
Free online play
Internet browser
PS Home
Netflix, Hulu, Crackle
Blu Ray
3D Blu Ray
DVD upscale to HD
If you so choose so you can get PS+ for $50/year, free games, free map packs, free avatars, free themes, free backgrounds, discounted games, discounted map packs, early beta’s etc.
Way more than Xbox live which costs $10 more per year, and this is optional so way better.
No matter how you slice it up, Xbox live is no better than PSN or PC online gaming, and you have to pay $300 every 5 years. Pitiful you.
titan
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Psn was crappy the first few years, lag, no trophies, no.Netflix, and then a year using a disc to watch Netflix. But I’ll give them credit now, besides the security breach, great service.
abc
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i remember in this site xbox fans were mocking the move as a dildo. i laugh so hard everytime i saw someone typed that because it is true. but now those hypocrites will defend this new peripheral they have. life is a bitch.