head to head

Kinect Sports: Season Two cover artvsWii Play cover art

Kinect Sports: Season TwovsWii Play

Kinect Sports: Season Two leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Kinect Sports: Season TwoWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Kinect Sports: Season Two leans harder on execution: Full-body motion timing is the entire skill surface

Reads1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on reads: Two-player duels add slight mutual prediction

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 2

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

full breakdown

Kinect Sports: Season Two

full breakdown

Wii Play