"We're a team that makes big bets"
That is true, MS does indeed make big bets. I think the last one to really pay off for them was the double down of Windows and Office in the mid 80s. Since that their track record including Windows CE/mobile, Microsoft Surface, the Zune (currently languishing behind about 40 versions of the ipod and even a few Sandisk players), tablets based on Windows, The "sphere" whatever that was going to be and a dozen other overreach boondoggles makes me more then a little pessimistic.
There have been so many game changers announced that didn't change much of anything over the last 25 years from MS I have a hard time keeping track of them. 30 years of game changing and the only thing making real money for them remains Office and Windows from back in the 80s.
It isn't just that I'm down on MS, I hated the eyetoy too. It was supposed to be revolutionary in most of the same ways. Pretty flat out, playing without a controller kind of sucks and limits games to mainly mini game collections or lame gimmicks. I don't want to crawl around on my belly to play metal gear, I don't think I could get a flaming spin kick off to win in mortal kombat, I already find Rock Band fake enough without playing air guitar and I really don't want to use my finger as a gun.
Sony and Nintendo looked at the eyetoy and similar controllerless solutions, realized the limitations, and worked around it with motion controllers. Microsoft apparently looked at the eye toy and saw the next big thing.
As to both the move and Natal though, when's the last time an expensive add on peripheral did well? Sega CD, Powerglove, Nintendo track mat, add on PS2 hard drive....if its not in the box when you buy it its almost impossible to add new things after the fact. The Wii Fit is more or less the only exception to that rule I can think of, so well played to Nintendo on that one.
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