9009pc said:
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.
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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
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sony would difinately had 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, they would not have been able to shake the image. microsoft is a completely different company, that probably most importantly in contrast to sony is primarily a software company. they were not only able to give the tech a new image, were able to support it properly.
sony would not only have to convince, 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 tech and (to be honest from what they showed was possible with move the current range of titles have been rather dissapointing) as 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
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Hmmm (rubs chin and strokes beard) very well thought out opinion and I must admit I didn't think about the PS-EYE probelm where sony could find it difficult to differentiate and sell an item like Kinect because of eye-toy. I also agree that move is not being fully optimized but i think part of this is because sony is not making many Move ONLY games. Also, i don't think sony should NOT have bundled sports champions with the move starter pack. They could have exponentially expanded their software sales if it was a stand alone title
