Given that living spaces in Japan are typically small, how viable is Kinect in the territory?
PS: Well, this is why we’re here, why we have teams in Japan and why we build games in Japan. Europe is very different, going from France, to the UK, to Italy, to southern Europe – all very different tastes, all very different interests. Having developers and a developer platform around the world so that we get regional interest and content is really, really important to us. So having a team here in Japan, based in Tokyo, and working with Japanese developers from the beginning is fundamental to our platform. Microsoft PR: We’ve done extensive playtest environments looking at different types of living rooms – flats in Europe, apartments in Tokyo etc. We feel very good about what the play-space environment looks like and we don’t have any concerns about that. But Kinect seems to work best when stood around two metres from the sensor – many Japanese players will need to move the sofa out of the way to play… PS: This is where David’s point is exactly right. We’ve done extensive testing h
