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

[Chibi.V.29]

Mr Puggsly said:

Chibi.V.29 said:

A small part of me dioed from laughing at this thread. xD kenect did well because it was given a stupidly huge marketing champain. Ever heard of a PSP eye? same tech just a little less powerfull ^^

If it just took a "stupidly huge marketing champain" to make something a success than I think we would see more "stupidly huge marketing champain(s)". You need to accept the Kinect is a hit because its cutting edge technology that appealed to the masses.

The PS Eye is literally a webcam. The Kinect uses a couple cameras, infrared, and some other wacky technology. Hardly the "same tech."

Everythign does have a stupidly big marketing budget rofl (if its backed up by a super large compony). The ps3, wii, 360 etc etc they all do. Obv a lot of companys cant becauser they dotn have the money but kinect had a 500 million champain. ps eye i have never seen on TV. I'm not sayign that PS eye has betetr tech but im sayignt he concept of playign without a controler has been around forever. If sony had pushed PSeye back in the ps2 era as hard as MS did this gen with kinect it would probably have been very big (for its time atleast).

You have to remmeber that though these companies do has huge amounts of money to spend they still have to keep within reason. MS decided to spend a lot fo there money o kinect instead on the actual 360 consol where as nintendo and sony decided to continue backing there actual consoles.