Last year Moore doubted that motion had ”obvious relevance” to FIFA. Now things appear to be changing and they’ve got ”some pre-production ideas” in the works.
”What we’ve learnt over the years is building anything on a platform just for the sake of it doesn’t make any sense,” said EA Sports executive Andrew Wilson. ”So the question is, how can that platform add value?” FIFA 12 will have no Kinect support that’s for sure.
Last year Peter Moore poured ice water over FIFA getting with Kinect anytime soon. ”You never say never,” he began, ”but if you ask me right now do they feel like there is obvious relevance of those technologies to the experience that is FIFA, I don’t see it.”
The EA teams have obviously come up with something that has changed their mind some, but they haven’t a solid plan how they’ll implement motion controls yet.
”Peter has always been open to any experience that makes sense. In my conversations with him he’s certainly not doubtful or down on it. He just asks questions like the rest of us do, like, what’s the right experience?” said Wilson, commenting on Moore’s motion stance.
”We’re going to work through the next year as we get to the following year – it’s not for FIFA 12, it’s for FIFA 13 – and ask, what’s the right experience for Kinect? How does Kinect add value to you as a gamer who plays FIFA across platforms?”
He swears Kinect is ”going to play a part in who you are in FIFA. To the level that that actually ends up integrated? We don’t know yet. But we’ve got some pre-production ideas we think are kinda cool.” FIFA 12 already features revamped player physics.
”We know there are gamers out there who have Kinect. They’re saying, how do we, for the time we play on our Kinect, add value to our bigger world as FIFA? You tell us we can do it on our phone. You tell us we can do it on Facebook. We want to do it on Kinect as well.”
”We’re going to go about solving that problem.” FIFA 12 releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC this fall. How could Kinect be integrated into FIFA 13? Penalty shots and free kicks?
