| HexenLord said: I agree that Kinect is extremely innovative, but giving the award to MS because of Kinect is idiocity. MS didn't invent Kinect. They didn't even fund the research for the initial development. Hell, they weren't even the ones who came up with the idea (and NO I'm not referring to Sony). Last I remember, the people who DID make Kinect even tried pitching the technology to other companies first and went to MS last. This makes MS innovative?
Give the credit to the people who pushed the technology into motion gaming, not the company that wrote them a paycheck. |
I don't agree with these awards anyway on the basis they never release the supposed metrics they used to decide on a winner, which basically confirms what we all know is that it's subjective bs. Just one small point though about Kinect, the software that drives it and does all the skeletal mapping and detection is all Microsoft's work. They might have bought the hardware in and evolved someone elses concept but their software development has managed to bring a device to market long befopre anyone else would dare try it.
When you see awards for cars you don't see them credit the company that built the engine if it comes from another manufacturer. That's just life for those people unable to go it alone and make a product work, you sell to the big boys who get the credit and you hope you've negotiated a big enough slice of the pie.
