HappySqurriel on 27 November 2010
While people may be able to argue that Kinect is superior to the Eye Toy I'm not sure you can say that it is conceptually different. Companies like Sony and Nintendo probably passed on it because they did not believe that it was enough of an improvement to be a central part of their console strategy for this generation. Sony decided to move in a different direction with their Eye-Toy strategy with move, and the result is conceptually different from what the eyetoy or playstation eye was. It will be difficult to determine which company was correct in their decision because of the difference in concept, implementation, and how central the strategy was for each company.
