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Kinect Sports cover artvsWii Play cover art

Kinect SportsvsWii Play

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

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION1 /10
Kinect SportsWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

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.

Optimization1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on optimization: Minigames are too shallow to deeply optimise

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

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Kinect Sports

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Wii Play