Is Kinect eating into Wii sales?

[Mr Puggsly]

Metallicube said:

I wish people would stop comparing the Kinect to the Wii. They are really not that similar, besides having a similar lineup of 3rd party shovelware. Wii genearlly represents unique ideas in games, as well as old school gaming values and characteristics. Kinect mainly has a bunch of "birdmen" games with limited gameplay, which is also why only a few of the games are selling significant numbers.

And to answer the question, no, they are not eating into Wii sales. Nintendo has hurt its own sales by focusing too much on niche hardcore games for most of last year, as well as third parties cutting the life of Wii short from very little support.

I look at Kinect and Wii as two machines that have done very well courtesy of motion gaming hardware.

Take the motion gaming out of the Wii, well it would be another Gamecube.

Wii's 2010 software is arguably one of the best years ever in regards to quantity of quality titles. However, its motion technology now seems dated compared to Kinect. For example, I was at a store the other day. People were all over Kinect Sports. But Move and Wii had nobody around them. I think I saw tumble weeds.