Is today perhaps the biggest day ever for videogaming?

[Doobie_wop]

Mr Puggsly said:

Doobie_wop said:

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.

I think you're over simplifying how it works and how it tracks.

The point is its dumb to call the Kinect an Eyetoy clone. The Eyetoy was just a webcam.

You can argue about software, but hardware is a completely different story.

You keep saying the Eye Toy is just a webcam, but it plays games. It's actually a successful camera based gaming peripheral that was offering gaming experiences similar to what Kinect is offering today. Those experiences may be less advanced, but so is the PS1 compared to the PS3, both are designed completely differently, but the end result is the same, which is that a game is playing on your TV.

They both offer gesture based recognition, sound detection, and colour detection technology, a few extra advancements do not vastly change the category they fall under, which is camera based motion controls. You can say whatever you want, but Kinect isn't an innovation, it isn't the first of it's kind and (as you agreed earlier) it isn't a significant event in gaming history.