Is X1 forcing Kinect on us any different than PS3 forcing Bluray on us?

[Normchacho]

Goatseye said:

Normchacho said:
This is a pretty silly comparison...Some people don't like voice controls or don't see the value in spending the extra money for the kinect.

Blu ray is objectivity better than dvd. The only drawback was that it was very expensive when the PS3 launched. It may not have had huge benefits for gamers last gen but the impact that the PS3 blu ray drive had on physical media as a whole and gaming this generation is pretty obvious.

Not really sure how you didn't think of that immediately.

Not really obvious! People are still buying more DVDs and most likely in the future switch to digital.

http://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/dvd-sales/2013

http://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/bluray-sales/2013

Of course they are. These changes take a rather long time. The gap between dvd and vhs was huge and it still took a very long time for dvds to start outselling vhs (2003, only 3 years before blu ray came out). This time around, the average consumer isn't seeing the same kind of drastic change they did going from a cassette to a disc. 

P.S. You should really look at the difference in BR market share between 2012 and 2013. Looking at the top 10 from each list the market share for BR went from 32.67% in 2012 to 41.25% in 2013.