If the rumor about the $199 360 with a motion controller is indeed true...
... it's bound to fail horribly.
This has already been said countless times, but here are the huge chasms to overcome before even hoping for this to be a success:
- it must be real. Of course, it's probably vaporware, a typical MS tactic
- it must be advertised. Lots of wishful thinkers (or shills or astroturfers) believe that you just have to dump the product on the market, and people will magically know about it. NO! The marketing for the Wii (and Wii Fit) had a big budget and started months before the console launch.
- games. There's just no way the vaporware has as many games taking advanatage of it as the Wiimote.
- controller form factor. Anything looking like a classic controller will just plainly fail. There are few controllers form factor that are accessible enough. With a classic controller with lots of buttons, you've lost the casual already.
- console form factor. This one is an instant killer. There's just no way casuals will put huge, ugly, NOISY consoles like the XB360 in their living room.
- OS and IHM. What's the point of trying to compete with the Wii, when you can't even control everything with motion sensing or pointer? I doubt the OS can even cope with it. The XB360 interface was slow already without a mouse-like pointer. And without an accessible IHM, you've lost the casual already.
- reliability... Enough said!
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There are other points, but these are enough to make it fail completely if it even exists.
So, I wonder what's the point of this vaporware campaign. It just makes no sense at all, and is completely ineffective to scare the competition.
