What will happen to 360 if Kinect fails?

[Zappykins]

I think it would be bad if Kinect fails.  On several levels, it's much of what the Xbox team has been working on entirely for a large period of time.  If it fails, it will demoralize much of the team.

Microsoft has been ahead of it's time before.  Remember Web TV?  Now people like browsing the web on their TV's, but it didn't work that well on Standard Defination TV nearly 20 years ago.  And talking to the computer?  They were trying to push that before the computing power was really up to that level.  And don't forget, HD DVD. (Why didn't they include that in the Xbox like the PS3?!?)

Now, I'm a little perplexed why they didn't include an HD camera in the Kinect.  I wouldn't think it would add much to the price, but perhapse that's because they want a HD Kinect upgrade in a few years.

One of the reasons I got my Xbox 360 last month was to be ready for Kinect.  Overall, I've been more impressed with my Xbox than I expected.   I expected Halo: Reach to look awseum, but didn't expect to like Pinball (it feedback in the controller is amazing) and stuff like Braid. If I had one and streaming, I might not have bothered with a Blu-ray.  Yes, the Blu-ray looks better, but with HD streaming, and the new 1080P upgrades coming to Netflix soon it's not really needed.  And if I had Braid, I wouldn't have bothered with Super Mario Brothers Wii (sorry if that offends anyone.)

I'm hoping, that like the Xbox 360 itself, that Kinect (Should be KinX) exceeds my expectations.  There is amazing potential there as we get closer to the 'holo decks' on Star Trek Next Gen, but we will see how reality unfolds with this new tech.

If it fails, it will be sad, and I think the team will be working on the next consol (Xbox 3d?)