As I've said many times, large companies are patenting anything they can think of in case they ever decide to use it; and it is not necessarily a sign that they will ever actually implement what is in the patent.
With that said, between the rumours of Kinect 2 and this I wonder how central these devices will be to Sony and Microsoft's strategy in the upcoming generation. Will they bundle these systems or leave them as add-ons? If they bundle them will their systems be more expensive or less powerful? If they don't bundle them how will they encourage third party support for these devices?
Beyond that, part of the reason for Nintendo's success was that there was an asymmetry in the market where Nintendo used one strategy while their two competitors used another. If Sony and Microsoft are following such a similar strategy, won't that preserve the asymmetry (potentially) to Nintendo's benefit.
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