Kinect's early success is a referendum on Nintendo.

[Gojimaster]

jarrod said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Gojimaster said:

We also need to consider that M$ is going to be heavily relying on 3rd party developers to bring life to Kinect.  These 3rd party developers have utterly failed the Wii.  Will they clean up their act for Kinect?

I don't blame the developers as much as I blame the consumers. Wii gets an endless wave of garbage because people keep buying them!

Hopefully Kinect owners will show better judgement in their software purchases. Hence, lets hope consumers cleaned up their act. So far so good in my opinion as the better Kinect games seem to be doing well.

The better Wii games sold best initially too.  The problem was content... when you're getting 90% garbage, not just the gems are going to float to the top.   And honestly, quality wise Kinect's launch is looking even worse than Wii launch did 3rd party wise.

I also wouldn't say MS is going to have to rely on 3rd parties though, early on the 1st party games (Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, Kinectimals, Dance Central) have really taken the overwhelming lead and I'm not sure that's going to change in the future.  It really is just like Wii all over again, Microsoft's driving the platform almost single handedly.

I don't think Dance Central is 1st party as it is rumoured by Harmonix to get a Move port.  I, personally, would be a little concerned if M$ is going to be the main driver of the Kinect platform.  Other than Forza, Fable, and Halo has M$ actually funded that many great 1st party games in the 5 years of Xbox 360?