Kinect name may actually be stolen from Sony Thread

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I dunno, but it seems awfully coincidental. Granted, the name is "kinetic", but the context seems just... a tad bit too close.

Eh, I just thought it aught to be pointed out.

Edited by: TheUnabridgedGamer

There's less of a coincidence when you look the context; Kine is a prefix for movement/motion (like if you were to study Kinesiology). In Microsoft's case they went and added a pun to play on its ability to either connect gamers to the games, or to each other.

Cryrid wrote: There's less of a coincidence when you look the context; Kine is a prefix for movement/motion (like if you were to study Kinesiology). In Microsoft's case they went and added a pun to play on its ability to either connect gamers to the games, or to each other.

*looks*

Kinetic for Playstation 2 Eye Toy for hands free excercise and movement based games

*turns head*

Kinect for Xbox 360 for hands free excercise and movement based games

Yeah, I don't see it.

On another note -- this my third thread (from what I can remember) where you've posted first, if not within the first 3 posts. Now there's an interesting coincidence...

Cyrid just doesn't leave moddb :p he is allways around xD

I wouldn't say it is stolen, many games implying movement based gameplay use some form of Kine in their name (like Cyrid explained)
Kinect is just Kine (movement) merged with connect. Add some wordplay sprinkles to it and you get Kinect
/tinfoilhat

Also, Kinetic is not developed by sony

Just like Googling "Move game" gets you some Non-Sony references as well as Sony ones. There are only so many motion related words out there to use.

kinected engery is a scince term for movement enegry so i think thats were the name came from

badass-studios wrote: kinected engery is a scince term for movement enegry so i think thats were the name came from

It came from greek : Wordinfo.info . Well from greek it came to physics as well so Many termini that we consider Latin/English are actually greek (pretty much whole medical vocabulary is latinized greek).

Edited by: MrTambourineMan

....people are still posting on this thread, even though it's dead.

I must figure out how to get them to post this much on threads I actually want to keep alive...

No. If it was a dead thread, people wouldn't be posting.

A dead thread is one where people don't post.

it wasn't stolen, only a knock-off. and since i dont care about controllerless gaming, im not going to argue with anyone about this. so shut up! what's done is done, you can't change what microsoft does even though they don't have very original ideas.

plus it's called the eye toy, not the kinetic. so the names arent similar

Edited by: Spr09

Spr09 wrote: it wasn't stolen, only a knock-off. and since i dont care about controllerless gaming, im not going to argue with anyone about this. so shut up! what's done is done, you can't change what microsoft does even though they don't have very original ideas.

plus it's called the eye toy, not the kinetic. so the names arent similar

...the name of the game was "kinetic". That was-- you're not even getting the point.

And the fact remains -- this thread served it's purpose. It discusses something obscure, noticed by chance. There are threads on important things in modern gaming that barely get more than 5 posts.

Paradigmthefallen wrote:

Spr09 wrote: it wasn't stolen, only a knock-off. and since i dont care about controllerless gaming, im not going to argue with anyone about this. so shut up! what's done is done, you can't change what microsoft does even though they don't have very original ideas.

plus it's called the eye toy, not the kinetic. so the names arent similar

...the name of the game was "kinetic". That was-- you're not even getting the point.

And the fact remains -- this thread served it's purpose. It discusses something obscure, noticed by chance. There are threads on important things in modern gaming that barely get more than 5 posts.

lol the GAME was kinetic, which is a word in the dictionary Thefreedictionary.com while the actual hardware was the eye toy En.wikipedia.org. research things before you start claiming large companies steal something, just a word of advice.

badass-studios wrote: kinected engery is a scince term for movement enegry so i think thats were the name came from

pretty much sums it up

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