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Kudo Tsunoda: "Hardly Anyone Plays FPS on the PC Anymore"

by Nicholas Taylor, posted on 20 September 2010 / 884 Views

Kudo Tsunoda, head designer of Microsoft's new motion camera Kinect is perhaps best known for his bold statements, in general. Well, here's another one: Kudo Tsunoda claims that hardly anyone plays FPS on the PC anymore. While he does have some fair points later on, that opening line is no doubt what will draw the most attention.

“Halo did an awesome job of building a first-person shooter exclusively for the console, and now hardly anyone plays first-person shooters on the PC anymore,” said Tsunoda.

He went on to explain that “If you think about the way that first-person shooters evolved, they started on the PC.”

“People for the longest time tried to port shooters from the PC onto the console.”

“And people said the same things that they are saying now about Kinect – ‘It’s never going to be responsive enough to do this,’ or ‘You’re never going to get a fun first person shooter on the console’ – it’s only made for a keyboard and mouse and that is the way it is supposed to be played.’”

“And as long as everyone was just porting the existing shooters over to console, they weren’t as fun as the PC ones. Of course, they were built for the PC.”

As for his flagship product, Kinect, it launches November 4th in the US, and November 10th in Europe.


8 Comments

ZechsMerquise
ZechsMerquise (on 23 September 2010)

I thought with the exception of RTS games, FPS games were the ONLY games PC gamers really play lol

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westplay
westplay (on 21 September 2010)

@AwesomeElmo: I think you should give your cocaine to Kudo, it seems much stronger

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binary solo
binary solo (on 21 September 2010)

In 'The Kinect Story' the movie ($30 at activision.com) Russell Brand will play the part of Kudo Tsunoda.

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binary solo
binary solo (on 21 September 2010)

Bit of an odd analogy. I don't see how a single (2nd placed) platform adopting controllerless gaming only for some games can spell the death of controller based games, or controller based motion games. Which is of course the implication from the analogy of "no one plays FPS on PC anymore". In the next gen if Ninty and Sony stick with controller based motion controlled gaming then Kinect has no chance at becomming the default motion control system.

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spdk1
spdk1 (on 20 September 2010)

@ d21lewis LOL

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AwesomeElmo
AwesomeElmo (on 20 September 2010)

@westplay: Wow, so I guess that's at least 1 person playing on pc, versus about 18 million playing Cod on 360 and ps3 (and about a million on wii).

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d21lewis
d21lewis (on 20 September 2010)

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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westplay
westplay (on 20 September 2010)

I think Kudo does not play pc games. Yes pc sales dropped and this generation of consoles has a lot of reputation but i play pc games for years and i only play fps games on the pc. Its different playing fps games on consoles, I feel restricted and can't do certain moves as fast as the PC version. This is my opinion of course and I believe that Kudo is exaggerating just to make Halo seem even bigger, that it ruined pc gaming because of its "greatness"

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