HappySqurriel said:
Third party publishers don't like add-ons because only a small portion of the userbase will own them, and few people who are interested in their games will be willing to buy an expensive add-on to play them, so they usually only give these add-ons token support; essentially, they devote a handful of third rate developers to work on low budget games that will be released in the wake of the add-on as cheap cash-ins on the device's popularity. The fact that it is not standard equipment means that it will never be well supported. While they're just rumours at this point in time, the reason why the rumours indicate that the next XBox will include Kinect at launch is because third party publishers will never give Kinect real support as an add-on. |
And that's why I'll return you to my post about push. If there is no backing behind a peripheral, it becomes an accessory, not an upgrade or an expansion. Expansions work only if they're properly integrated, like for example Brood War, which almost all Starcraft players joined because it was just right.
Also, the point you make on cash-ins may give an answer to the unexpected and possibly bloated success of the Wii, just sayin'. It all boils back to causality. If an accessory has no appeal, then it is not worthy of being a full cycle-enducing piece of tech, let alone warrant a new console.
I'm not sure if you see my point, but it's there.
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