Microsoft: 'Kinect Games Portfolio Will Three Times By The Finish Of The Year'

"And in expectation of other record year in 2011," a press let go trumpeting the console maker's burly NPD showings said, "Microsoft voiced the size of the Kinect games portfolio will three times by the finish of the year." Wikipedia lists 26 stream Kinect releases with 26 more in development. A tripling would show there are 26 extra games not nonetheless known.

"We've seen a few of the media beginning to inquire the question, 'When are you going to see more Kinect games coming?'," Microsoft product executive David Dennis told Joystiq this evening. "As you sat there and looked at it you satisfied we've got a lot of games forthcoming and we're going to show a lot of them at E3."

But Kinect games won't be the usually things Microsoft shares at E3. When asked if the comparatively malnutritioned first-party "core" lineup from Microsoft Game Studios this year - primarily relations to the assertive rollout of Kinect games - represented a deprioritization of that assembly late in the Xbox 360's lifecycle, Dennis insisted that wasn't the case. "We know that the core what took Xbox and done it the home for core games, either they're first-party games or third-party games. We would of course never leave that assembly behind," Dennis said. "So for us and for Phil [Spencer] and the folks over at MGS, it's not about depriorizing one or the other. It's about how you go large on any and all: Go large on Kinect games; go large on core games."

When asked if there would be extra core diversion announcements over Gears 3 , Forza 4 , Codename: Kingdoms , and the totally-a-secret Halo: Combat Evolved reconstitute , Dennis said, "We of course design to have a large E3 and we're saving a lot of the cards until then." We know a great commission of that rug includes Kinect games; we'll have to wait for until Microsoft's E3 press discussion to find out how low its core skeleton go.