EA Removes Kinect Support From Upcoming Game

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on June 22, 2011 AT 04:58pm

Lately, all the talk over on the Xbox 360 side of things has been about adding Kinect functionality to games. EA, however, has decided to remove Kinect support from one of their upcoming titles.

That game? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. For their video game version of Part 1, Kinect support was part of the overall gameplay. Though Kinect support isn’t being named as the blame, the game did very poorly when it came to review scores, will all versions of the game having around a 40% rating on GameRankings.

Due to that, the team at EA decided to change their focus for this follow-up title. “We didn’t want to dilute any of our efforts on other things that would require a lot of the team’s time to perfect,” EA producer Gary Napper told Joystiq.

Source: Joystiq

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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