Battlefield 4 To Include Kinect Functionality

Battlefield 4 will include some form of Kinect functionality on Xbox One, DICE has made known, but was clear to point out that said functionality “will make sense”.

In the latest GameInformer issue, DICE admits that motion controls for shooters “does not make sense”, clearing the way for only voice command Kinect functions in Battlefield 4 for Xbox One.

Said DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson:

We have a pretty pragmatic view [on Kinect 2]. Instead of just trying to tick all the boxes of features you can do with new hardware, we look at what actually adds value [for] our players.

When you look at the kind of games that we build – or Battlefield at least – it is a first-person shooter that is very much about skill. Input is really important. You need to have very precise control over what’s going on, and trying to do something like that with motion control input does not make sense – not if you want to keep the same kind of formula of the game as we [have] now. You’d need to build a different kind of shooter.

But there are other places where it will make sense, and we are going to use it for other things in the game, but we haven’t announced exactly what.

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Thanks, Videogamer.