Is today perhaps the biggest day ever for videogaming?

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Mr Puggsly said:

Doobie_wop said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Pyramid12 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Boutros said:

I don't think Nintendo or Sony will follow the movement. And besides, mind control is just around the corner!

I think Nintendo is putting billions into mind control. That little finger thing is step one. Next it'll probably go through the nose into the brain.

Sony on the other hand is probably already cloning Kinect technology for their next PS Eye device.

Sony is "cloning" a "clone" of eye toy? w8 what????

Yes, the Kinect is simple a webcam.

MS looked at the Eyetoy and said we gotta clone this webcam and that's how Kinect was born.

The Kinect is a camera used to play games. The Eye toy is also a camera used to play games. The tech in them are different, but the end user result is the same, which is that you move and whatever is on the screen reacts. It's like the Wii mote and Move, both have different tech in them, but the Move obviously copied it's method from the Wiimote. The same thing applies to the Eye Toy and the Kinect. Microsoft may not have directly looked at the Eye Toy when designing the Kinect, but it also doesn't mean that they aren't rehashing an old idea.

OT: No.

No, the Kinect is two cameras and some wacky infared technology used to play games. The Eyetoy is basically a webcam used to play games. The end result is not same. Otherwise MS would have justkept using the Live Vision device.

Its kinda like comparing the NES and 360 gamepad. One is capable of far more than the other.

The end result is the same. To play this random game, I have to jump around, wave my arms or kick my legs to interact. Both of them use gesture recognition technology and also allows players to interact with games using motion, colour detection and also sound, through their built-in microphones. One of them does it much better than the other, it doesn't stop them from being very similar devices.

The 360 gamepad is around because of the NES gamepad. The NES controller released with a D-Pad, a select and start button in the middle and two action buttons. The 360 gamepad uses all those buttons, but it uses different tech and it's an advancement, that doesn't mean it's an original concept though. I'm just saying that credit should be given to the ones who deserve it, Microsoft are not the first game company to use a camera to play games, the credit all goes to SEGA.