Dance Central has become a lead title for Kinect and has even outsold Rock Band 3 at retail. Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos admits that even launching Dance Central was a risk for the now independent developer.
“Dance Central is one of the top-selling titles for the Kinect, and the Kinect is one of the most successful products in the entire video game industry right now,” said Rigopulos. “So we’re thrilled with how Dance Central has performed out of the gate.
“It was a gamble, he added. There was a moment where we had to take a big leap of faith as a company to devote ourselves to Kinect, which was an unproven peripheral. We had actually been doing R&D on a dance game before we even knew about Kinect. At some point early on, Microsoft showed us the Kinect, and at that moment we realized that it was the perfect technology for this application, and we felt very, very strongly about the potential for dance games.
“Yes it was a leap of faith, and yes we also felt that it was the right technology coming at the right time for the game that we wanted to create. Suffice it to say, we’re really happy that we made that decision, he continued. “It’s our top-selling product right now, and I would say the largest single development team at the studio is hard at work on Dance Central, without being able to be too much more specific than that.
“But, we do continue to have significant resources devoted to Rock Band both in near term and far term of Rock Band and we also have significant resources devoted to a number of new IPs and new game concepts in development as well. So there’s actually quite a lot of work underway here on a diverse variety of projects, he concluded.
Source: Destructoid
