A lot of ignorance today (Remote play and Eyetoy never existed)

[ArnoldRimmer]

LOL at comparing Kinect to the EyeToy.

Did the EyeToy have a resolution of 640x480 Pixels? No! It had 320x240! Did the EyeToy have a USB 2.0 interface?!?! No, it had USB 1.1!!! Was the EyeToy released in 2010? No, in 2003!

So as you can see, it's just ridiculous to even compare them. That's like comparing jet engine powered-airplanes to airplanes with propellers - It's absolutely ridiculous, you cannot compare them, it's a completely different technology!

Seriously. If one doesn't want to admit that Kinect is basically an advanced EyeToy (the biggest difference was never the hardware btw., but the powerful software libraries that Microsoft spent incredible amounts of work on - as even Microsoft stated in their own advertisements) - fine. But if one seriously thinks that it's impossible to compare a RGB camera/microphone combination to a RGBZ camera/microphone combination because the additional "Z" makes it something completely different with a completely different technology, then with the same reasoning it is of course impossible to compare the PS4 camera to Kinect as well.

I don't think so. Even though I've said for years that the PS4 will ship with a stereoscopic camera (simply because it makes perfect sense - it offers a whole range of new possibilities at very low additional costs), I think it's clear that Kinect had an influence on the decision. Just like Kinect was of course inspired by the EyeToy, which itself was probably inspired by other earlier technologies as well.