Even if Kinect was a failure as Malstrom says, they still did the right thing from a business perspective, and I know Malstrom respects that perspective. Microsoft, from a business perspective, got their foot in the Motion Wars door in a unique and noticeable way.
Even if they failed they still managed to stay relevant in that category. And I probably don't agree with Malstrm as much as he likes, but to be honest, you can't say the Kinect is a huge success if your competitor has a handful of motion software selling in the twenty friggin millions!
Kinect Sports will not be anywhere near the success of Sports Resort, and ALL of you can go look at the data and see that that game, and the other kinect games, will be plateauing for good very very soon. Hardware sales, of the Kinect will and are going up fast, but if software is not moving at the same amazing rate (like we saw with wii hardware and software), then you can without a doubt expect hardware sales to come crashing to a halt in the near future. People buy hardware first, then software. Once the software doesn't meet the consumer expectations, then the hardware will start to drop off.
Kinect was noticeably better than PS3's Move, and that's good enough. They haven't come close to the Wii's success in that area, and the software data shows that the hardware is not living up to it's expectations. Yeah, sure, we need to give it time, but no, the software is already dropping, and dropping fast. Kinect NEEDS the killer app, and if they didn't get it by emultating exactly what Wii Sports was, then god only knows how they'll eventually get it.
