Microsoft: Kinect give us 5 years more

[leatherhat]

RolStoppable said:

leatherhat said:

Flicks of the wrist require no skill

I don't think the 360 and ps3 made them decline at all, its the same group of people -with a few new ones added in- only now they bought a wii instead of a playstation. And the fact that the 360 and ps3 have smaller userbases mostly comes from the fact that the are very similar in the software department. If there was only one you can bet it would be doing as good as the wii or better. 

No skill implies that every flick would lead to the desired result. That's certainly not the case in Wii Sports.

I see you now admit that Wii Sports got people into gaming. Good, at least we are making a little bit of progress here.

No not wii sports, its just a natural progression. We can talk about specific pieces of software or hardware but really it just has to do with acceptability. Look at movies and tv, they got more and more popular over time without any drastic change. There aren't "casual" or "downmarket" movies. It just became more and more present in peoples lives. Video games will do the same regardless of what software or anything else that happens. Every generation gets bigger not because of a specific thing, but because thats just how things go. Older people unaware of the media die and younger people more accustomed to it become more numerous, pass it to their children as a normal thing etc. If you think playstation or the wii or anything else has expanded gaming beyond the natural growth it would have seen than you are kidding yourself.