Sony & Nintendo PASSED on Kinect Tech - Biggest Mistake In Gaming History?

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PizzaFaceGamer said:

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

The problem is... even if Sony adopted Kinect.. it wouldn't have really taken off.

 

I mean... look at the eye toy and their first approach to motion controls, it's like it never existed.

I think with all of sony's first party studios we would DEFINITLEY be seeing more PS3 Kinect games.

Although maybe the $500 million marketing budget is party responsible for Kinect's success and  Nintendo or Sony may not have spent that much money

sony would difinately have a hard time selling it. even though kinect is a lot more advanced than the ps eye they would have a hard time convincing anyone it was different. even if they did have a $500 million dolar advertising campaign, they would not have been able to shake the image. microsoft is a complete contrast to sony, as it is primarily a software company. they were not only able to give the tech a new image, they were also able to support it properly.

sony would not only have to convince costumer it was different, or make costumers forget about the ps eye, but would also have a great deal of difficulty getting any developer support, the R&D team thought long and hard about were the tech would go and it was pretty obvious that releasing a second camera in a single generation would be incredibly difficult to pull off. they were also focusing on the games that could be created with the two tech (to be honest from what they showed was possible with move the current range of titles have been rather dissapointing) to see which could do more, better.

london studios were the only ones to support the ps eye I doubt we would have very many ps3 kinect games.
so I believe that for sony at least it was a good idea to pass on the tech at least until next gen.