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OntheEdgeofthemirror on 30 November 2010
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Darth Tigris said:
Porcupine_I said:

lets just pretend for one second that Sony had not abandoned Kinect technology

let us imagine Sony came up with that exact same product that Microsoft has released now, with exact the same launch games and tech behind it.

let us further pretend Microsoft had chosen to go the other way and develop a Motion controller with buttons and tracking in 3D Space.

is there anyone supporting Kinect right now who could honestly say that they would buy a PS3 in that case, because Sony has the better motion controls?

Or would it rather be that the ridicule would never end for trying to sell the Eyetoy again?

i don't expect an answer, just ask yourself people, you know the truth.

Can't speak for others, but I think that Sony coming up with Kinect instead of MS actually would've made more sense considering their history with the EyeToy and PS Eye.  The reality that MS took their basic idea and significantly enhanced it into Kinect (which, is a big success even early on) while Sony gave up on the camera path they were on and simply enhanced Nintendo's strategy is what doesn't make sense to me.

But maybe it really was a software solution and sheer force of will.  I remember MS had a motion controller on the PC and it did nothing and they dropped it but Nintendo wanted to make it work and DID.  Plus technology that might not be workable 4 years ago CAN work now (remember initial polygonal efforts?).

This article only proves that Sony's engineers couldn't or wouldn't solve the 3D camera limitations and MS (so far) has.

Significantly I think not, the fact that it wasn't a significant hardware advantage is the main reason Sony passed it up, and frankly the only reason it seems(seriously doubt they'll break even even if they sell 5 mil by the end of the year) to be a commercial success is because of how much MS is advertising and hyping it, if Sony came out with kinect with the exact same games kinect has now with the hype and advertising they have for move it would have been received FAR more poorly