How will Sony and Microsoft counter the Switch?

[Pyro as Bill]

Bandorr said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Why would MS/Sony work on motion control?

They are both working on HD and online services.

-VGChartz User 2009

I know this isn't a fair comparison given how much more important HD and online were compared with 4K and current-gen VR.

And how did that go? abandoned quite quickly - and with a lot of regret.  You could make an argument that the kinect 2 damaged the xbox one and is one reason the xbox one is so far behind. 

So why would either of them want to make that mistake again?

Kinect was 20M+ units successful. That's why MS went with it the following gen. I agree Kinect 2 hurt XB but it wasn't stupid of them to go in that direction. They couldn't have known in advance that it would hurt them like it did. They believed the opposite and had evidence to prove it.

Why would they make the same mistake? Well what if VR sells 30M on PS4? Does Sony make VR 2.0 for PS5? Do they redirect development from 4K AAA to smaller, more casual VR games? If they go for the casual crowd, won't they be making the same mistake MS did? Is this why MS isn't making it's own VR and is supporting 3rd party devices instead?