

While Kinect Sports: Rivals isn't launching until Spring 2014 now, you can check out the 'Preseason' demo, available now on Xbox One.

That's when we proofed out things like rock-climbing, with the open and closed hands, and wake-racing, soccer, target shooting and tennis." At the time though the sensor wasn't complete, so we were prototyping on the old Kinect, as well as trying to mimic the fidelity that we'd have on the actual sensor. "When we go for our preproduction stage and our concept stage, we tend to go very broad and very wide. We also had some really cool kayaking prototypes, as well as a Frisbee one, and a table tennis game. Horse-racing and fishing were kind of good, but they didn't make it. "We really focused on what could bring the Kinect sensor alive, and what can put it on that pedestal. All the sports that made it into the product were all built as prototypes before. Some we cut completely - we had horse racing and fishing, which we built as prototypes. Speaking with OXM, Rare's Danny Isaac explained, "Yeah, there were some that didn't make it. Kinect: Sports Rivals developer Rare has discussed the Xbox One title's event types, including several cancelled sports like horse riding.
