nitekrawler1285 said:
Sony never catches much flak for overpromising and underdelivering. Toy Story graphics on PS2....really? PS3 with 2 hdmi ports etc. Xbox owners got on board with 360 after the Xbox was killed quickly and prematurely not the mention the RRoD thing. I don't think and underdelivering on thier motion controller will hinder that much. Increased resolution is exactly what would make the kinect a worthwhile experience for more than workout and dance games. It would allow for very quick simple natural gestures with just your hand. In short it would create the possiblity of more arcade like gameplay which is what the wii has and kinect doesn't. In addition it will also make general computing, menu navigation and media consumption easier and more intuitive as well. Doing it wrong was obviously profitable for them. I can't see how doing it right would be anything less. |
I'm thinking of this in the context of my brother's family ...
When Kinect came out they bought my nephews an XBox 360 with Kinect for Christmas, and (in generaly) my brother and sister in law have been very disappointed with the XBox. The reason is that there are few age appropriate games for the boys (they're now 9 and 11 so it isn't as bad as it was initially) and the games that were available were for Kinect and they only kept the boy's interest for a couple days; in contrast, many of the Wii games I helped them select were regularly played for months after the fact.
While they were impressed by the graphics, begrudgingly allowed me to by them "inappropriate" games for their XBox, and with the boys (probably) being teens by the time the next XBox is out they may buy another Microsoft system; but I suspect Microsoft faces an uphill battle on re-selling Kinect to girls, women and casual gamers who bought into Kinect thinking that it would make the XBox as viable as the Wii for them. Certainly the technology has probably improved, but people tend to be gun shy about buying into a concept a second time after their needs weren't met the first time.
As for why people are not as critical about Sony on some topics ...
I would say that, at this point in time, people are less critical of Sony for similar reasons why people weren't (that) critical of Nintendo at the end of the Gamecube generation. No one enjoys kicking someone when they're already down, and Sony is in pretty rough shape at the moment.
