| Machiavellian said:
Stage, you need to do your research better. Before Primesense MS was doing camera base tech. Primesense allowed MS to come to market sooner and cheaper. With Kinect 2, MS no longer use primesense because the tech they were working with became more affordable. As for forcing a device down your throat thats BS. A company has a product and a vision, you have the right to not purchase it. Nobody is forcing anything on you because you have the right to just say no. 3)You are right, Sony never committed to the Eyetoy. They never risk anything on the device and after a few products every time it went no where. At least Nintendo had the balls to risk their business on the Wiimote and I would say at least MS is willing to take risk as well. |
I'm sure if Sony had Microsoft or Nintendo's Money they would take those risks as well.
But its common knowledge that Sony has been in dire finacial straights since 2006, thats Eight years. So While Nintendo and Microsoft are simply risking their consoles with peripherals, Sony would be risking the Playstation Brand on the Eyetoy. And since they've had since ps2 with it, I think they understand best what the market for it is.
Forcing a peripheral limits your userbase always. Even with the Wii. Most people see the Wii's sales and think, oh bundling the peripheral insures dev support and if it pays off can attract a large market. But what they fail to see because they are blinded by the money, is that less people upgraded from gamecube to wii intially. But because of backwards compatibility and price, it didn't seem optional and expensive, so not forced. So its understandable, but the Wii U is displaying this in spades. The innovation isn't what got the sales, the ease of use was, the motion gaming fad was. Right now, the kinect is optional and unnecessary, until they either give it away by lowering the price with it, or make it optional then it will continue to restrict the user base.
If Microsoft was truly confident, they would take the 100$ loss and get paid back in software as the loss-leader strategy dictates.
As for Nintendo, they have a battle with relevance.
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