Microsoft Surface is all style and no substance at all

[Aielyn]

WiiBox3 said:

Aielyn said:

WiiBox3 said:
Same with Kinect.

Eyetoy came before Kinect, and was pretty mass market already. Kinect was a refinement of Eyetoy, extending its capabilities. I'm sure Sony is kicking themselves for not having thought of the Kinect type refinement first (it's clearly outperforming Move).

My point exactly. The first to market doesn't matter unless they make the mass market interested in it. Kinect wasn't even close to being the first of it's kind, but it was the first that really got the mass market interested in that type of tech.

You might want to read what I said again. I said that Eyetoy was already pretty mass market. The mass market was already interested in it, Kinect just refined it, capitalising on the existing market. I'd say that what really got the mass market interested in the tech to begin with was Minority Report, but that's a different issue.

It was the EyeToy that established the camera-based control market, as it was the iPad that established the tablet market. What Kinect did was take the idea, and refine it by adding the depth-detecting camera factor (can't remember - is it Infrared that it uses for that?). That improved the fidelity, and thus enabled games that would grow the market. But the market was already there, waiting to be expanded, and that's what Eyetoy did - it established the market.