I have to agree with op that Microsoft might be like Nintendo before.

More specifically i think xbox is going to share fate of gamecube in few incoming years ;)

No critics, media  and community reception for Wii Music was similiar and eventually it did fail.  Kinect is getting favorable reception by the critics and media (particularly non gaming press). It is just the community that is looking down at Kinect.

Well, of course. Since you have to stand up to play it, it's not at eye level.

Lol... quote of the thread.

Microsoft has not failed... they have failed you.

This is their first step into going full (well, almost full anyway) casual for the future - where the money really is

Of course that means sacrifices to their hardcore investments, but they want to command the family living room, not the fratboy bedroom anymore.

To me Kinect is going to sell a lot, much more than move - even though I'm gonna buy move and not Kinect.

Nintendo didn't show the Wii remote at E3 2005, they showed it at the TGS 2005. Just saying.

It'll be interesting to see how many of teh casualz will be willing to shell out for Live Gold, which is where MS seems to make all its money.

Microsoft doesn't really strike me as being capable of stealing Nintendo's audience, but they do seem very capable of losing their own if they push this shit too hard, too fast on the "frat boys" who have been their biggest supporters since day one. Nintendo, on the other hand, seems perfectly positioned to unify a lot of this divided market behind them next generation.

This. It really seems like Microsoft is just charging headlong into this market, much like they have with other markets before, but video games are much harder to get right than personal music players and search engines (though i'll grant that Bing is actually quite well executed)

Well no, I was highly interested in Natal last year and what they could come up with software wise. Now this year all they showed was games that remind me of games I already have or are on my Wii. The one game they showed that I would want to play as of now was the rafting game, but that is far from worth the price for a Xbox plus Natal. Honestly, yea it is more advanced than the Wii mote and all, but the way they are doing it and the way Nintendo did thier E3 makes it look dated.

The whole hands free to search through movies and stuff is neat, but its being said you have to stand up, so wtf's the point? That goes against just using a simple remote..

Nothing they showed besides the raft game looks fun or useful to me. It is the oppsite of how I looked a Wii. At first I was a bit uneasy about how it would work and if it even would. Now, it is my favorite system since the SNES. Yea, sorry I do not follow your line of thought.

I would have thought that's what the girls were thinking.