Microsoft Japan's mobile Kinect demo trailer is bigger than most apartments

Kinect is doing terribly in Japan, but that's not stopping Microsoft from trying. The company’s latest gambit, a mobile Kinect demo space housed in a trailer, can be found in Yurakucho, a neighborhood just a few stops down from Tokyo's video game paradise, Akihabara.

Above: No, seroiusly. We've seen hotel rooms in Japan half this size.

Judging by the pictures, the event isn't bringing in that many people, which is a shame, because Microsoft is using the response generated in Yurakucho and one other location to decide whether to take this show on the road in order to showcase Kinect to the rest of Japan.

Above: Color-matched outfits on the avatars: creepy or cool?

Our advice? Microsoft is going to need to either adjust Kinect so you can play while standing only three feet away, buy everyone in Japan a larger apartment, or start lobbying Square Enix for some kind of motion-controlled Dragon Quest game.

Source:Game Watch

Dec 18, 2010