http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/email-about-the-incredible-360-post/
For the record, I too think that Kinect is failing at its job, which is to counter the Wii. Of COURSE it's meant to counter the Wii. You think Microsoft made it - threw half a billion dollars at marketing it - just so they could get those five hundred million dollars BACK? Spending that much money communicates one central message; Microsoft has a goal with Kinect. And if that goal is to just flat out make money, then Sean Malstrom has simply overestimated them. If their goal, however, is to counter the Wii? Guess what, it's not happening.
Judging from the blog post I linked to up there, he seems to have suffered from lack of sleep or something. I guess there's that. But maybe he's just overestimating Microsoft's intentions. Maybe they don't want to chase Nintendo after all. Maybe they're just happy with making money.
But that thought once again crashes with the fact that they spent half a billion dollars in marketing. It's not their intention to simply make half a billion dollars back from sales. You don't spend a buck to earn a buck.
Is Sean Malstrom in denial? Or are the vast majority of people here (particularly every person who goes "bleh that was horrible but I'm not gonna say why") in denial that Malstrom might just once again be right about something? Given how many times he's ran circles around gamers and analysts alike, I'm not inclined to follow the "common logic".
