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

[Zkuq]

Goatseye said:

Zkuq said:
Yes, it's different. Kinect offers no obvious benefit to anything. Blu-ray did. First, we'd probably have had a pretty fierce battle between BD and HD DVD if not for PS3. Second, disc space was becoming an issue even for some PS2 games so it was obvious that something new had to come soon. It wasn't a huge benefit in that sense but still different from Kinect.

Really? The only thing 360 could've benefitted from BR-Discs would be space and with 2 DVDs that was the remedy.

Can Blu-ray sign me in and 5 other more people in a Fifa 14 tournament and keep track of our player settings?

Can it help surf the web just with commands, which is way faster than typing with a controller?

Pretty stupid comparison of peripherals ain't it?

More space is good for games, or we'd still have DVD or even worse. And in that sense, Kinect is completely unrelated to the gaming experience. I did, though, say wrong when I said 'anything' when I should have said 'gaming', in which case it's not completely true either, but in the vast majority of cases it is.

Yes, a stupid comparison. Makes me wonder why I dragged myself into this in the first place...