I thought this was a good read.  http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-27-sony-why-we-turned-down-kinect-interview

He didnt seem to bash Kinect or hype Move, but seemed to make some pretty good points on why Sony passed on the tech.  It seems they thought it was limited at what it could do. I have always thought this. (from a hardcore gamer perspective).

I know its not aimed at the hardcore but wouldnt slapping balls and jumping get old after awhile?  

What do you guys think?  Will developers come up with new game ideas?

will sony still think it was a great idea when people think kinect is next tech and move is now tech?i forone think tat each will have some kind of kinect like tech in their next gen.

I think so too, but with no controller input at all is limiting to developers and to the type of games that can be played. I hope I am wrong,

 A Kinect/Move hybrid from the ground up for next gen would be very exciting. I guess Kinect is kind of a stepping stone in that regard. 

Guess Anton wasn't in a bad mood that day. Not a bad article, but do they really need to ask him so much about Kinect vs the actual tech he's involved with?  I just got the feeling the article was trying to score some attention generating responses out of the guy.

Kind of ironic he did that all by himself regarding Star Wars on Kinect.

Pretty much confirmed what I already knew about kinect, it's limitations are abysmal and it really isn't going to get any better then we've already seen, Sony knows tech, MS doesn't, the fact Sony passed on 3D cameras (having the most experience with camera games) speaks volumes of why it isn't that good for games 

Just thought this was rather important to highlight..........

lol awesome

sony have always tried to appeal to hardcore and casual, they havent done that a lot this gen to the casual, but the appeal they try to acheive is one of the reasons they didnt continue advanving on the eye toy tech. while ms now are appealing to both we already know by next years line up that its going to hurt a fanbase, even though hardcore kinect titles are coming out, im sure everyone would rather play it with a controller.

Basically, it sounds like Sony wasn't willing to pay to solve the software challenges.  They really can't compete with the amount resources that MS can afford to throw at the software research side to support Kinect.  Plus, Kinect fits with MS' whole natural user interface play.   So just like Sony got extra benefit from using bluray, MS will get extra benefit from kinect.