| Zappykins said:
The PS3 is dominating Europe this year and that's really helping them; however, Xbox has a trump card, Kinect. And it will be a while before a massive PS3 exclusive like LBP2 comes out. I think if Xbox markets Kinect well in Europe, when they add multi language support, it could really do well for them. Really really well - especially if they made a great Kinect Football (Soccer) game, and Kinect is the only way to do it with full body tracking. Multi language support is supposed to come in the Spring, as that's when Hulu Plus and Kinect Netflix support is added (but I'm not sure if Europe gets those.) Where it works, the voice commands are nice, and my biggest frustration is they there isn't enough voice support yet. I see Kinect as an enhancement to the gaming experience, not necessarily replacing the controller, but giving the player yet another way to interact with the environment. The option to give verbal commands, (including Xbox Pause) in a game opens up a whole bunch of future coolness fun yet to be added. (Say, "Smokebomb" in Assassin’s Creed.) French - Xbox Jeu!, German - Xbox Spiel!, European Spanish - Xbox Juego!, Italian - Xbox Gioco!, Finnish - Xbox Leikki!, Russian - Xbox игра! etc. (Words might not be translated correctly, lol.) Another big advantage is the PS3's Blu-ray. Renting movies in Zune in 1080P with 5.1 is nice (almost as nice as a well made Blu-ray), but if they added a monthly fee and unlimited movie watching with a Zune movie pass then it things would really tilt to Xbox as the movie thing would be covered. It's anyone’s game right now, and I see the consumer really benefiting as each company tries to out do the other. I think it's MS opportunity to expand the gap if they want. |
MS already used their trump card, and if Kinect didn't help push 360 sales over ps3s in a holiday quarter while it was getting the most attention and advertisement and ps3 had games being delayed it certainly isn't going to push them ahead the rest of the year, Kinect has already done pretty much everything it's going to do, sales aren't going up they are going down
