Nuvendil on 18 January 2015
The issue with the Kinect as a game peripheral is that while it is a step up on a tech scale compared to the Wii, it is a step backwards in terms of practicality. The Kinect suffers from the same problem that plagued pre-Wii pure motion controls, the very problem the Wii solved: navigation of 3D space. The Wii remote and nunchuck solves this problem, allowing for sophisticated game design like Metroid Prime 3 that melds motion control and traditional gameplay seamlessly. The Kinect removed that advantage to take a step forward with the "you are the controller" slogan but in reality they just took a step backwards in terms of functionality. As q game peripheral, the Kinect is dead and was doomed from the start.
