Is today perhaps the biggest day ever for videogaming?

[Jordahn]

fastyxx said:

Jordahn said:

toastboy44562 said:

This is the start of the future I believe. all games eventually will be controlled with your body...kinect is the first step there! today is perhaps the biggest day in the videogame industry ever...go 360!

Absolutely not.  The heart of gaming centers around hardcore gamers.  Kinect does NOTHING to promote hardcore gaming.  In fact, just the opposite.

That's what people said about controllers versus mouse and keyboard, but controller-based gaming eventually made some huge leaps and bounds and advances in "hardcore" gaming as you put it.

Have a little imagination, why don't you?  I'm pretty sure he said Kinect was the first step in a larger evolution, just as the old Atari joystick or what have you was the first step in the 360 controller or the Dualshock or whatever controller you now like.  It's an evolutionary process, no doubt set in motion by the Kinect/Wiimote/Move etc/  Would we have the iPhone games we have had it not been for the DS touch screen?  Maybe?  Would we have had the DS touch screen without the Gameboy?  Maybe.  

To flatout say that controller-less gaming has no future and will never reach the hardcore is pointless, imagination-less and silly.  

I'd put more money on controller-less 3D holographic gaming being the eventual future of hardcore gaming than I would on anyone using any traditional input.  

 

But I am wise enough to not speak in absolutes.

I live in reality like the one here...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=118956&page=1

...that was earlier pointed out.