Why are people trying to downplay Kinect's success?

[landguy1]

I think that Microsoft has done an obviously good thing for the longevity of the 360.  Instead of trying to convince everybody that it is time to replace their current system with another one, they have a stop gap device that can lure in the casual gamers to its system.  If there was a hardcore gamer that doesn't already own a 360, then they were never going to get one anyway.  So, to make their current hardware go another 2-3 years, they have the Kinect to get more brand loyalty for their next system that will have whatever kind of built in features that will be required 3 years from now>  They will also be able to create a level of acceptance of the common person to using their system as an interface for all of their media needs.  Anyone who thinks this is the downfall of the hardcore games is ridiculous.  They will make the same number of Gears/Halo/Uncharted/killzone type games in the future for all systems, but you will be playing them on systems that won't be only "game" systems.  This is just another step in the evolution of the home theater or living room set up.  The only thing for certain is that it will not be a fad, too many people will try it at a friends and like others have mentioned, there will be other uses brought forward to get more out of it.  THe next generation of game systems/home theater boxes will all have some version of this.  Oh, they will still have your controller available as an accessory(for a small fee of course!).