Harmonix shines the Dance Central Spotlight on the Xbox One (interview)

Harmonix is announcing today that it is launching Dance Central Spotlight for the Xbox One video game console. Three previous Dance Central motion-sensing dance games debuted on the Xbox 360. The addition of the Xbox One, with its beefed up Kinect sensor, should broaden the kinds of dance experiences you can have.

Besides getting the core dance experience on Xbox One, the new game has better more accurate motion detection, so the choreography can be a lot better, said Matt Nordhaus, the project director at Harmonix for the game, in an interview. Other developers have pulled back from Kinect, but Harmonix is betting that the dance genre will still be extremely popular on the motion-sensing platforms such as Microsoft’s Kinect. We caught up with Nordhaus to talk about the process of taking Dance Central to the new version of Kinect at a press event.