Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

[theRepublic]

lucidium said:

Eyetoy predated both DS and Wii, as did the Sega activator, unless of course you want to pretend 4.2m sales for a game with a hardware accessory isnt "popular".

To break it down

"Nintendo popularized motion gaming" - Was popular prior to ds/wii, no AS popular, granted, but popular non the less.
"Neither would exist if right now if it were not for Nintendo" - Pure assumption, given that sony already had the eyetoy and their development department had been working on its successor (pseye) since the commercial release of the eyetoy. As for kinect, assuming that mobile gaming took off just as well as it has done, and i see no reason why it would not, it is safe to assume that Microsoft would have gone ahead with their aquisition of primesense and released kinect regardless.

Again though, if you want to claim nintendo popularized motion gaming despite the existance of eyetoy, about the only reason you will have to claim this is overall lifetime sales, in which case your point is "it wasnt first but it sold more, so it popularized it", at which point anyone could easilly point to the mindblowing sales of mobile and tablet devices which far outstrip standard gaming consoles, and say, "actually, no, the mobile market popularized motion controls and touch input". (like it or not, tilt sensors and touch inputs equate to motion control).

I put it to you that Nintendo simply timed the release of the Wii right, in regards to motion tech which already existed, at a price point and age range target to perform well on the open market, a lucky strike in timing that they have failed to repeat with the WiiU.

They caught the people transitioning from console gaming to mobile, and non-gamers to mobile gamers just at the right time for the Wii, a large potion of this customer base have now either migrated to mobile, migrated to playstation or xbox, or returned to being non-gamers, or casual "facebook" style browser games, as evidenced by the WiiU.

I am not attacking Nintendo however, I am simply being logical and unbiased about it.

Wow, it has been a long time since I have seen anyone even attempt to deny that Nintendo popularized motion gaming.  Or that Kinect and PS Move were not direct responses to the sucess of the Wii.  Given that it is 2014, I am not even going to bother to rehash something that was settled years ago.