SEGA's Mike Hayes has said that they are preparing a title to woo the hardcore gamers.

Hayes told CVG that hardcore gamers should expect a "sophisticated" Kinect title from them by the end of 2012.

Hayes said: "I think [the idea that the Kinect launch let the hardcore down] is a little harsh. The dev kits we've had to work on have been exponentially improving over the period we've had them. The amount you can do out of the blocks is actually made pretty tricky."

"My guess is when we're at E3 next year, more of the features of Kinect will be in use by developers," Hayes continued. "I think you'll find more clever and sophisticated applications then. It is a reasonably complicated piece of kit, therefore it's going to take us longer to use all of those aspects in a game. We're not going to be able to develop something [for the hardcore] in under a year, which is frankly what we've had."

"We want to do more clever things on it - create original ways of using it, rather than just taking existing ideas and not just doing the same thing," added Hayes."We've got one good idea and hopefully something will be out the back end of next year, perhaps early 2012, which we think will use the aspects of Kinect a lot more originally and in a more sophisticated way."

By Ewan Aiton