17 Dec, 2010
Welcome to our weekly Community Q!
Once a week we flip the tables and listen to what you guys have to say . . . rather than sitting back and make you listen to us!
Joytiq reports: “it’s finally happened: They’ve come up with a way to touch virtual breasts using the Kinect sensor. ThriXXX, a company that makes (you guessed it) sex games, has announced that it’s created a Kinect hack to utilize the sensor as a control input for its “sim” games.”
“Right now the Kinect functionality is limited, though thriXXX plans to add — yikes — support for full-body gesture and voice commands. An alpha release is planned for early 2011 and will patch support for Kinect into all games using the company’s proprietary thriXXX engine.”
So our question to you is this:
Community Q: is this an inevitable development of sensor-control gaming, or a step too far? Would you (or someone you know) purchase a porn game?
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I am amazed something like this is actually being allowed to go ahead! I would have never imagined Microsoft would go for it, considering what they have turned down in the past.
I think the concept is entirely too ridiculous to have any particularly strong feelings about it. The idea of someone caressing, dry humping and talking dirty to thin air is probably the most tragically hilarious concept since the blow up doll.
I find it hard to believe that even the most seasoned consumer of adult material will be able to extinguish the deep seated sense of shame that would come with buying something of this nature. It’s another sad for humanity. Perverts of the world rejoice.
I’m going to have to say that this sort of game would really ruin the whole “family fun” image that Microsoft and the Xbox have recently been trying to portray. Although I think Jen said it best, the fact that anyone would find any form of pleasure in…well basically have sex with air, is actually quite sad. And though I find it hilarious that there will probably be a large amount of guys wasting their money to be able to hump the air and have it displayed on a screen, its needless to say that this is still a very disturbing concept. As to why anyone would want to have this, other than to perhaps laugh at how shamefully foolish they look while playing it, is beyond my comprehension…
… And there’s been a (deserved) u-turn. MS will not be supporting the game: http://kotaku.com/5714842/there-will-be-no-kinect-sex-game
That’s excellent I think, even though I believe this game is fairly harmless. I do believe that it is some demented form of a perversion that would make anyone purchase this, and that has no place on something meant to be family friendly.
I think it’s totally worth pulling completely from Microsoft machines, if for no other reason that avoiding the shit storm that would rain down from the diciples of Mary Whitehouse. It was entirely inevitable that a situation possitively pregnant with possibilities like with the Kinect, that someone would quite shamelessly exploit it so a select few can play with some cartoon bazookas.
I still think the idea of walking in on someone using this would have been truly priceless.