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    Help me please to choose console for JD🙌

    Hey guys! I can’t decide which console to pick. I’ve heard that the best way for scoring is playing on Xbox with Kinect but there are not that many exclusive games for this console comparing with PS4. As for switch - you don’t need to buy any controller for playing JD but I’ve heard it’s really hard to score here. Could you share your experience and advice, please? Thanks in advance
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    I've used Xbox Kinect, PS4 Move, PS4 Camera, and Switch. Personally, my favorite is Xbox Kinect, and that's the only platform I've used for JD 2020 so far. But like you mentioned, I don't use my Xbox for anything else.

    PS4 has the advantage that it offers both remote gameplay with Move and camera gameplay options (without having to use a phone). It takes time, trial, and error to get the most out of the PS4 camera (whereas Xbox Kinect is much more plug and play) and even at its best it doesn't seem in my experience to work quite as well as Kinect across all of the dances (though in most cases it is pretty close if the clothing, background, distances, lighting, etc. havre been optimized, and for a few dances I can actually do a little better with the PS camera). I've noticed on YouTube a few very good dancers use the PS4 camera for some dances and PS Move for others. (But of course on the dance floor you have to pick one.)

    I haven't tried PS Move as much as I've tried Switch, but for the dances that I have tried, I didn't notice any significant scoring differences between the two. I felt like I was hitting better scores on each move with the PS4, but the overall score was coming out about the same. For example, I took a couple of X's on 24K Magic Extreme with Switch, but didn't take any X's on it with PS Move, but I was just hitting superstars either way. (Maybe if I had tried the dance more than a couple of times it would have made a difference.) But once I got my PS4 camera optimized, I hit 13k on it. For easier dances like Side to Side and Instruction, I could hit a high twelve or a thirteen on any platform, but I could consistently hit almost all perfects every time with Xbox Kinect.

    When I was using PS4 and Switch in 2019, the Dancer of the Week scores were surprisingly good, well into the 13's on both platforms. Not quite as high as Xbox, where 13300 to 13333 is unbelievably common, but with players hitting 13100 to 13300 on Switch and PS4 on almost all of the dances (of the current version of the game, not counting Unlimited), even extremes, it shows that players are mastering dances on all consoles and modes of game play.

    It's interesting that players can do better or worse using a phone, PS Move, Wii remote, or Switch Joy-Con. I guess the technology works a little differently, and each item is gripped a little differently. When I was using Wii U, I noticed that I did better on the Lean On quartet with a phone than a remote, but worse on All About Us using the phone, but I spoke with other Wii U dancers who had the opposite experience on those songs with a phone versus a remote. I expect players to similarly experience small differences between Switch and PS Move. I know a few dancers who hit amazing scores (many 13's) on Switch and others who hit amazing scores (many 13's) on PS Move, so on either platform it is possible (though it seems like 13's are more common with Xbox Kinect, especially to do it across almost all of the dances).

    I liked the grip of the PS Move. I always felt uncomfortable trying to hold a phone. What's nice about the Switch Joy-Con is that the remote is fairly small, yet I always feel like I tend to not quite hold it right and my grip on it sometimes changes in my hand. The shape of the PS Move makes it more natural for me to hold, and I don't have that nagging doubt that I'm not holding it right when I should be concentrating more on the dance. (But I prefer hands-free dancing with a camera, especially Kinect.)

    Good luck and happy dancing.
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    Thanks!
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