| Zappykins said: I think you are missing how actually fun and versatile Kinect makes the X360. Yes it can be for 'oh the floor is lava’ - and actually show you that on the screen silly party fun, and learn to dance, exercise, fight those kind of things. There is nothing wrong with those gamers and casuals that enjoy them. Plus - You can speak to it! You can tell it to look stuff up - I forgot how nice this is till I was at a friends and they had me look up a movie on their roku - typing in a name with a remote :'( It's more fun to say, "Xbox Lord of the Rings" and it shows you where you can find it. A couch potatoes dream. Then when you are done, you can grab a controller and you have a hard core HD game machine and go fight dragons, war heroes, and such in beautiful fidelity and 5.1 sound. The Xbox 360 is very well placed as both a causal and a hardcore machine. It’s versatility is an asset. |
I think. The Xbox brand is in a very critical stage of its life. having the choice of focusing on the kinect and become like the "Wii" or focusing on hardcore and continue to charge the PS brand head on. If MS chooses one of these ways as its permanent plan, there is no way in hell that they can win next gen. However, if they balanced the "Casual" and the "core", while not being afaraid to invest heavily on both of them. I can almost gurantee you that they would dominate next gen in terms of sales and audience size.
MS has all it needs, a successful casual device (Kinect) and HUGELY successful core exclusive titles. The only way that MS can expand is to make more of both. However, as we have seen recenly, MS is only focusing on kinect. Which quite bothers me.... (not including XBLA exclusives ofcource)
In my oppinion.
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