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theprof00 on 12 March 2012
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RolStoppable said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

I never said it's fantastic, but it was one of the main selling factors for Mario Kart Wii.

Kinect isn't there due to lack of online users, but simply to broaden their userbase. The casual gamers (and "hardcore" who play games with motion controls) had already experienced the "fantastic" motion controls that the Wii offered, so Microsoft thought they might try to get some of them on board, which they did.

No, online multiplayer wasn't one of the main selling factors for Mario Kart Wii. Maybe in hardcore land, but not in a broad sense.

And why is KInect needed to broaden Microsoft's userbase? Because their oh-so-great online-centric approach to gaming would doom them to an also-ran in the video game business. Online multiplayer cannot replace local multiplayer, so Microsoft was forced to advertise the Xbox 360 as a local multiplayer system (because their ultimate goal is to be #1).


Actually, I believe their ultimate goal was to destroy Sony.