Microsoft’s Phil Spencer Admits the Kinect Isn’t Really That Useful For Core Games

[Mummelmann]

LurkerJ said:

Mummelmann said:

And now that reputation is gone and worse than ever; how has motion control helped them in the long run? The brightest flame burns quickest, and they have now been forced to scramble to come up with a viable plan for the future since their massive cash-cow was only temporary.

That is not the subject at hand.....

Jay is suggesting that Nintendo's image was hurt by motion controls and the Wii, the same way X1 was hurt by kinect...

And I believe they were, after the fact. Mandatory Kinect was always a bad idea and I said as much from the very beginning, I also said that MS would be forced to back out of this decision if they wanted any level of decent sales. I believe they were a little too late though.

Both Nintendo and MS' image has been hurt in the eyes of the core console demographics, which is of course problematic. However; it is unlikely at any rate that this audience is big enough for three companies to make great amounts of money off of them.