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

[Mr Puggsly]

Chibi.V.29 said:

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. 

You get technical by saying they all have big budgets if backed by a big company. But then you go back to the same stupid argument implying Kinect is only a success because of big marketing.

PS Eye (and eyetoy) are too limited because they are just webcams. Almost all the games involve you staring at an image of your self and smacking objects. You couldn't produce games similar to Dance Central, Kinectimals, Joyride, or Kinect Sports on a simple webcam. There was nothing for Sony to push.

Nobody is saying Kinect is the first time cameras were used for gaming. But MS took it to the next level and people took notice.

You say MS spent money on the Kinect and not the console. Last I checked the Kinect requires the console. Hence, they did spend money on the console. Kinect boosted console sales significantly and brought a more diverse audience to the 360. Sony tried to do the same with Move but it failed. I'd hardly say Nintendo is backing their console. They've pretty much thrown in the towel with Wii as they are getting ready to launch a new console.