Funny thread, families played video games together long before Kinect Favorites in our family were Lemmings, Worms, various fighting games, burnout, and more recently lbp and various wii titles.
As for Kinect the only thing I'm interested in is Double Fine's happy action theatre, but my oldest (2.5) is still a bit young to grasp motion gaming. He's all over the wii controller and move controller. Not so much to play games, just to play with the buttons and pretend it's a weed whacker, a sword, a microphone, a flashlight, a hammer. Who ever came up with the idea to put a soft ball on the top of the move controller deserves a medal, genius.
The eye toy alone doesn't do anything for his imagination, at most he'll spend 5 minutes with a game because he can see himself on the screen. The eye pet demo was interesting for as long as the demo lasted. He does ask to play wii sports resort flying because things happen when you press the buttons. It's just more natural to hold things in your hands and have tactile feedback instead of pretending to be the sorcerer's apprentice. Nintendo understands this with all the plastic crap they brought out for the wii.
Camera controlled gaming certainly works for dancing but for most other things having some tactile feedback is always better. Sony had to give in in the end too and put rumble back in the controller, any feedback is better then none.
What Kinect does do is open up gaming to germaphobes :)
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