| ChrolloLucilfer said: The Touch-pad on the PS4 has two major advantage over Kinect 2. Firstly the Touch-pad is a control method which has been used for a lot longer than Kinect and has already been fully accepted. Laptops have been using Touch pad as alternative to the mouse since the late 1990's. So any game developed on the PC which uses the mouse/Touch-pad is now a lot easier to be ported over to the ps4 in terms of controls. Ports of existing Tablet games are more a possibility now for PS4 and maybe even of some of the Wii U games touch based control could be ported over as well. The second and the most important differences between the two is that the Inclusion of the Touch-pad is not a massive cost expense compared to Kinect. So even if Third Party ignore the Touch-pad it's not that much an issue to the PS4 in terms of their direction or an added cost to PS4 consoles. Kinect 2 on the other hand has forced Microsoft to go with a weaker system and 100$ higher price. Making the Kinect 2 mandatory at the cost of power and price shows Microsoft are making a big deal over Kinect 2 features. So if the Third Parties ignore Kinect it's would a massive problem for Microsoft to justify the Kinect 2 with only their software to showcase it. |
i have a touch pad on my lap top you know what i use a mouse. as for tablet games the difference is you see what youre touching not touching the screen waiting for a hot spot to show then moving. a good example of is fruit ninja. perfect for kinect would be horrible on the touch pad. kinect didnt force them to go with a weaker system if sony wouldve stayed with the 4gb the difference would have been neglible. ms blunders was in the egineering department. and lets be honest i said this before sony has great devs that could push the wii u into next gen they didnt need the most powerful they wanted the most powerful. even if microsoft had the most power would we see more games than sony nope. so ms went in the direction they wanted to go in. its easy for every developer to add kinect even if its just to voice the navigational menu.
there are close to 30 million kinects in the wild. they introduce kinect when the base was around 60 million. now take the xbox one without kinect when would it reach the first million new kinect sales? 2 - 3 years?
