Alternate history, 7th gen: Clash of the HD dreadnaughts

[S.Peelman]

derpysquirtle64 said: 

S.Peelman said:
If Nintendo went with a GameCube 2, they’d be last. I think tye 360 would’ve won in that case, because with Kinect, it’d have gotten all the casuals.

Do you think Kinect would have existed in the alternate universe without Wii? I have some doubts about it

COKTOE said:

With no Wii motion controls to ape, and casual crowd to attract, Kinect would never have existed. Also, I think the timeline in Back To The Future would have been fine if Marty had boned his mom. What I'm saying is, Marty is his own father.

Heh. You guys make an interesting point, I didn’tthink about that.

I suppose it’s fair to say the success of Wii and motion control was a big incentive for Microsoft to go big on Kinect (and Sony with Move, to lesser success), so it’s also fair to say the strategy for the gen would’ve also been different for Microsoft. On the other hand, though I don’t know the history of it’s development so I could be wrong, I doubt Microsoft wasn’t already working on it’s development when Wii became. It doesn’t look like something you’d conceptualize, research, develop and release in a little over three years?

Ahh time mechanics, it’s mindboggling. And BttF is all kinds of weird. XD