Disgusted with the loss of Innovation (Kinect)? (/rant)

[Zappykins]

JWeinCom said:

I agree that it is a bad thing that the Kinect is being unbundled. Microsoft claimed that the PS4 was just an upgraded PS3 that offered little new, and that was true. Now, the XBox One is no better, and perhaps a little bit worse.

However, who is to blame for this? Microsoft released the Kinect without a flagship game (Kinect Sports should have been better, should have been bundled, and should have been available at launch), and didn't announce any games to support it since. Few games truly used the Kinect to any real effect. By the way, voice commands are not innovation. Sega did it in Seaman. Nintendo did it in Brain Age. Nintendo even did it, in a very limited capacity, in Mario Party 7, and they did it, to an even more limited capacity, in Zelda.

How can gamers be expected to care about the Kinect when it was largely useless? At best, the Kinect was an interesting TV remote, but my existing remote worked fine.

Innovative hardware without the appropriate software is meaningless (just ask Nintendo), and Microsoft has nobody to blame but themselves for this situation.

I agree they should have had games out. 

I wonder if them dropping the ball was partly because Don left?  It needed someone to keep them on track.

Plus I don't understand why there isn't a 'KinectTV Party' 'Happy Action' type game for fun and laughs and show off some of the tech.