Microsoft says no to Kinect sex game
Controller hacked for heavy pettin'
NSFW Getting down for some 'hot coffee' action isn't going to happen on the Xbox 360, at least not with the Kinect motion control system and not with Microsoft's say-so.
Borrowing the moral police helmet from Apple, Microsoft last night said that a protoype Austrian "sex game interface" based on the hand-tracking Xbox add-on will never be published with its sanction.
"Microsoft did not authorise or license its technology for this use," the company stiffly told the LA Times.
"Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow Adults Only content to be certified for use on its platform, and would not condone this type of game for Kinect."
Its response came after the game's developer, ThriXXX, posted a work in progress video on YouTube of its "3D sex-sim:"
It's pretty limp, but it shows the possibilities.
Crucially, though, the demo doesn't use an Xbox. It uses the Kinect, yes, but connected to a Windows 7 PC running open source tools released after hackers began exploring how the Kinect works.
As such, Microsoft has no real control over the game's release. Assuming it's not a hoax, of course.
Eitehr way, the cat, as they say, is out of the bag. ®
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"Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow Adults Only content to be certified for use on its platform, and would not condone this type of game for Kinect."
So GTA isn't adult only then?
Course callously mowing down pedestrians, hiring then blowing the brains out of prostitutes is fun for the whole family.
That's our culture though isn't it - violence is fine and a bit of consensual kinky fun is evil.
family?
I don't know if Americans just overeat until they divide in two - but getting a family generally involves sex.
Couldn't agree more!
My cousin (hence the anon), aged 11 has all the Call of Duty games (against my suggestion that shooting Russian civilians was a bit disturbing..), however he isn't allowed GTA, because of the prostitutes...
Its crazy. Natural human process of survival bad - ending another life harmeless fun.
The world needs to have a long hard look in the mirror and work out where its priorities lie.
Killing OK but fondling is wrong ?
So it is OK to have games where you kill and murder people. But a bit of fondling or sex is not allowed ? What a twisted set of moral priorities. Nothing wrong with a bit of nudity or fantasy fondling.
Don't forget the American market
...tends towards the Victorian: It's okay to let the undercurrent population get maimed or killed but sex? Ah, well. That's really not suitable for us prudes, don't you know.
After all, there's plenty in the Bible that covers destruction of life - backed by the right to bear arms - but very little to do with sex beyond '...and Mary didn't know Joseph' (which is rather tame these days). Come to think of it, I'm not sure the US constitution even mentions sex beyond brotherly love (yes, I'm taking it out of conext. Calm down at the back).
