Will putting kinect in every box really change anything?

[ChrolloLucilfer]

tres said:

ChrolloLucilfer said:
If the PS4 Camera has a good attach rate with the PS4, then yes it would be worthwhile for Third Party creating Kinect based features on X1. As there would be potential audience for those types feature to be ported over for PS4 Camera use. But If the PS4 Camera sales are poor, why would a Third Party Developer spend their own time and money on developing features which only X1 audience is going to use to any large degree? It would be a waste resources which could be saved or spent on other aspects of the game developement instead.

lol well we all know sony killed any hope of that.  so 3rd party devs have to do what they have to do.  factually, it just take  great ideas and not all the bitching by gamers just because its a kinect game.  some non dance kinect games had potential but writers killed it before it got started.  with kinect you had to have some form of coordination about yourself or it would fail.  steel batallion was one of those games.  the actually game just wasnt that great.  but you had some people myself included that had no problem with the controls and others playing it like an idiot (angry joe style).  should 3rd party developers ignore the ps4 touchpad because x1 dont have it? 

The Touch-pad on the PS4 has two major advantage over Kinect 2. Firstly the Touch-pad is a control method which has been used for a lot longer than Kinect and has already been fully accepted. Laptops have been using Touch pad as alternative to the mouse since the late 1990's. So any game developed on the PC which uses the mouse/Touch-pad is now a lot easier to be ported over to the ps4 in terms of controls. Ports of existing Tablet games are more a possibility now for PS4 and maybe even of some of the Wii U games touch based control could be ported over as well.

The second and the most important differences between the two is that the Inclusion of the Touch-pad is not a massive cost expense compared to Kinect. So even if Third Party ignore the Touch-pad it's not that much an issue to the PS4 in terms of their direction or an added cost to PS4 consoles. Kinect 2 on the other hand has forced Microsoft to go with a weaker system and 100$ higher price. Making the Kinect 2 mandatory at the cost of power and price shows Microsoft are making a big deal over Kinect 2 features. So if the Third Parties ignore Kinect it's would a massive problem for Microsoft to justify the Kinect 2 with only their software to showcase it.