Kinect was sillier than wii.

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For games yes but Kinect has helped technology in a lot of ways.

For years the robotics departments had a big problem to solve the SLAM problem. (Basically asked a robot in a room where is an object and he could not find it). Kinect a cheap 150$ device solved that problem, Robotics advancements went trough the roof with some professors calling the kinectfusion age.