It will probably be a failure in the market place ... not a failure of technology.
It is interesting that the arguments put forth regarding motion control have been turned on their heads by some people.
Until we know release date, price, and games -- any statements that are made are wild speculation. What we do know is that we are (probably) looking at 2010, which means another 20M-25M consoles sold before these devices are released. Also, even the best selling peripheral add-on (the Wii Balance Board) has only about a one-third penetration. Using that and the most optimistic estimates of sales for Microsoft and Sony, there will only be between 15M and 20M adopters of this technology, which makes it quite risky for software companies to develop games based upon them.
Mike from Morgantown
(Math is based upon one add-on for every three systems and a three-way split of the last 75M consoles of a 200M unit market).
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