With Microsoft’s Kinect launching this week to high hopes and low expectations, the man tasked with making Kinect shine in the public eye, is making the media rounds. In an interview with MCV in the UK, Kudo has a number of interesting things to say, a few that come off as unrepentent shilling, and a few winners like:

“Well, people on the internet are generally negative anyway so I try not to get too bent out of shape about that,” he jokes. “What interests me is that along the way in the journey of games ‘core gamers’ were labelled as people who only like shooters or violence. But what makes a core gamer, really, is someone who likes depth. Kinect allows that. No one really likes having to master the input device, those first few hours where you learn the muscle memory for the buttons. That’s a barrier we are removing straight away.”

After having a hint of what the (probably souped up for E3) Kinect hardware can do, I’m definitely curious to get the unit running in my living room. And curious when there will be good games for it. But first, just getting it working.

Source: MCV interviews Kudo Tsunoda