Kinect Sports developer Rare has played down worries about the size of room required by upcomin Xbox 360 motion controller Kinect. In July online shop AmazonRare: Don’t worry, Kinect not claustrophobic kinect news, and Microsoft’s own store revealed Kinect requires six feet of space between the player and their television, fueling much debate as to its effectiveness in small rooms. Earlier, we already reported that Kinect Adventures adjust to your room size automatically, but this seems to be more a Kinect thing than a Kinect Adventures thing. Read on to hear what Rare had to say on the issue.

Rare’s senior software engineer Nick Burton said the issue has been blown out of proportion.

The camera configures itself, basically, when you set it up. Now, obviously, if you’ve only got that much space [makes a small space between his hands] between your TV there’s just not enough space for you to physically fit in the frame of the camera so you need to stand back a little bit. But it’s not like, ‘Hey, look at me over here,’ and you’re in a massive living room. We live in England.

- Burton told Eurogamer.net.

Are you moving your furniture in order to play Kinect, or is your place so spacey that you need five Kinects and a couple of couches just to make it cozy enough for your friends to come and play?

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