MS: Kinect On PC Is ‘A Possibility’

Microsoft has revealed to CVG that PC compatibility for the motion control device, Kinect, is a “possibility”, and also that the device has the potential to be a part of non-games industries such as music and film.

Speaking at Gamescom – where Microsoft’s Kinect lost to Sony’s PlayStation Move for the best peripheral of the show award – Kudo Tsunoda, from MS, claimed that Kinect had the potential for “widespread applications” beyond gaming.

He also said that Kinect could even possibly work with mobile phones in the future.

When CVG asked about Kinect possibly coming to PC, he said:

“We’re very focused on Kinect for the Xbox, and launching that. I think it’s cool though – and this is just from me – I’ve been in the video game industry for a while now, and I know that in the games industry lots of times we’ll take things from other industries and bring it into games.

“We take stuff from movies, or take technology from PCs and put it into games, and Kinect really is the first time that the video game industry is pioneering something that I really think has widespread application outside of just video games.

“So, hypothetically, if I worked at a company that didn’t only make games, but also did things with PCs and phones, I think there could probably be some possibility that the tech might get used in other places. But, at least for now, [Microsoft is] focused on Kinect for Xbox.”

Let’s wait and see how Kinect performs when it’s released worldwide in November.