Kinect launch success????? Some figures.

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Psyberius said:

gergroy said:

Viper1 said:

Psyberius said:

 Wii Fit has absolutely NOTHING in common with Kinect.

Actually, they are both platform extending peripherals.  Their method of input being different aside, they are the same thing categorically. 

 

Seems the only people in denial here are those that think Kinect is something more than a peripheral to an established console platform.

do you consider the sega 32x a peripheral?  or the sega cd?  These are often considered consoles as they had their own software lineup, but they also utilized the sega genesis hardware...  That seems to be the big difference here (to me anyway).  You don't walk into a store and see a wii fit section of games like you do with kinect (or move for that matter).  

Personally I would view them as separate platforms. 

Wii Fit is a deadend piece of hardware with 1 piece of software.  There is no extension of the hardware because the hardware/software are mutually inclusive and exclusive of any other software.  The Wii Fit hardware is a controller...it's even worse than a nunchuck...at least a nunchuck can be used on more than 1 game.

Kinect/Move are a portals to a whole new generation of software.  They support this generation by being a platform for them.   All totalled, by the end of the 8th gen, we should see 100's of games developed only because of these new platforms.

Lets call Xbox 360 and PS3 Gen 7.5.  With Kinect and Move, let's call them Gen 8. :)

This means WIi was never in 7th gen, and from 6th went to 8th.