Who cares honestly. The marketing for this device alone(which was actually engineered by the same firm that marketed the Wii originally) was enough to give it huge success, the timing at christmas, with NO competition, was the largest heavyweight behind it. MS are being destroyed by Google and Apple in every other sphere of computer technology, and the Kinects success won't change this fact at the end of the day (this fin. article is saying the same thing).
I am genuinly happy for expanded gaming markets, and i am incredibly surprised that this "over saturated" market segment has been so willing to adopt this new tech, and so soon after the Wii, but I am not happy with the products accuracy, and most VGChartz users would agree with me.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
