Reasonable said:
TheWon said:
CGI-Quality said:
Not that Sony should be too worried, Move is doing better than they expected and it wasn't expected to beat out Kinect. But I still hand Microsoft more credit in the area of business, they took a gamble and it paid off in spades! It's kept the 360 healthy through Qtr. 1!
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Come on now! If Move wasn't created to beat Kinect or to help them move consoles. Why even waste the money on developing, advertising, and selling it. Move is about as good as the original Power Pad when it comes to moving software, and hardware.
Just like hiring Marcus to sell PSP! Your just throwing away cash!
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But Move wasn't created to compete with Kinect. It was created to compete with Wii. As was Kinect of course.
What CGI is getting at - I think - is that:
- Move was designed and launched more as a traditional peripheral and to allow Sony to get "Wii like" games as well as hybrid (or dual support) titles on PS3. It's done that and it's selling well as a peripheral. I'd note that while there tends to be a focus on bundles from Patcher, etc. the Move currently isn't that attractive as a bundle with PS3 and sells more as a peripheral to PS3 owners. Hence it's doing fine so far as a peripheral and being bought for games as diverse as Killzone 3, RE5, EyePet, etc.
- Kinect however was designed to launch more as a console extension and to create a new platform with 360, hence the far greater focus on Kinect as an interface rather than just another controller peripheral. MS have also priced and positioned Kinect bundles to be far more attractive than just buying a 360 and getting Kinect later. Kinect has also been focused squarely on Kinect specific titles vs Move's focus across hybrids and a few Move specific titles.
Both have done well, Kinect particularly well in US of course, respective to their individual launches and focuses. What CGI is pointing out is Move in some ways has been launched and positioned more modestly than Kinect as a strategy against the Wii and not specifically against Kinect - i.e. when Move was developed Sony's focus was the Wii not Kinect.
Move I think reflects Sony as a hardware company, and of course in terms of raw units might sell more than Kinect overall in the end - as Kinect is a single sale whereas PS3 owners who really get in to Move could easily buy one camera plus 4 Move wands. This is classic peripheral focus.
Kinect on the other hand is more of an attempt to extend a platform with something that is part peripheral and part extension of core operating system capabilities - which reflects MS as more of a software company that has some hardware to serve as a platform for the software.
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You make good sense and I am not saying you are wrong but I believe that Sony and MS are competing with each other more than with wii (no offence to nintendo supporters).
Their consoles competed for power (CPU, GPU, HD and all that jive), the vast majority of games are on both consoles so they compete for multiplat sales and both brought out addons at the same time again to compete with other.
