I believe the supposed "rise" in popularity of shooters is more a case of a lot of PC gamers have migrated onto consoles in the last 5 years.  That combined with consoles have gradually become a natural home for FPS games thanks to improved online capabilities and actual graphical abilities, not to mention the controller interface is better than it used to be.  FPS games have been popular since they were first created,it's only the more modern slant to people buying them on consoles that has changed.

No you are right shooters have always been popular but there have always been serious competition this generation there is none. Surely there is a tipping point and I think we may have hit it.

You can play a lot of ps2 games with a DDR dance mat plugged in as well... Fun for the novelty of it, useful no.

This looks fun for 5 minutes for farming, when you're overpowered for the zone and can pretty much kill anything without much effort. But as said earlier, (circle) strafing, precise selection of multiple targets in the heat of battle, carefully sneaking around targets, quickly grabbing something from a 20 slot bag, not gonna happen.

And I'm not sure about gesture based spell casting. Black & white did it before by drawing a figure with the mouse. It was aggravating if you quickly needed a spell and it would not recognize correctly. If you have a keyboard available, why use a method that works 9 out of 10 times and takes longer, when you can just push a button that works 1000 out of 1000 times without any input lag.

Okami used it too and it makes a bit more sense for a controller with limited buttons. But still it only worked 9 out of 10 times at best and ironically reviews stated that it actually worked better on a dual shock controller then with the wii remote. Anyway the solution has already been found, either map quick spell buttons or use a radial menu that can pause the action for very fast paced games.

I guess sorcery will tell if gesture based spell casting has a future. If it's still not fun and 99% reliable with the precision of the move then I guess it's better to just put it to rest.

There are plenty of applications for adventure games though. Think Zack & Wiki, Heavy rain. (And it was still fun in Okami when timing was not a big deal) Mimicking actions and gestures is far easier to do right (with less lag), then making a system that has to select the right action from a list of possible gestures.

It's funny the games best suited to each control system are on the wrong console. Alan Wake with the move for the flashlight would be awesome while Heavy rain is perfect for Kinect.

I see no control scheme that works well with those genres, but if you have one, please share it. Also, if you add a controller, that defeats the purpose of having Kinect in the first place.

why do you hate what you dont understand ;)

I tell you Rise of Nightmares (if it is what i think it is) is gonna be awesome, survival Horror is the ultimate niche for kinect. 

Also just because some games dont work with Kinect doesnt mean it makes the Kinect invalid, it just means you can play others, you know the 360 already comes with a controller dont you? Kinect is a plus not a instead of

We will see if that game is any good, but like others have already said, there are better options for certain genres, and  I believe fps is one of them.

yup I aint disputing FPS, they should stick to button pressing, but games like survival or Fable could do wonders for the Kinect unit

I think the difference is the huge number of quality FPS titles released in the last few years.  Looking back 10 years it was Quake, Unreal Tournament and Half Life that stood head and shoulders above the rest and most new FPs games just couldn't compete on the same level.  The number of new IP's that have created their own niche's within the FPS market has really expanded the FPS genre to the point we know consider what sort of FPS game they are (team orientated, twitch, tactical, competitive, etc). These new areas of gampleay have allowed new IP's to flood in and expand to the point a LAN event is no longer a deafault option that everyone plays the latest Unreal Tournament for the big prizes. 

It has of course happened in the driving genre which is another genre that has grown massively in the last 10 years.  Where you are quite right though is we've seen a collapse in the market for platformers, JRPG's are almost non-existant by comparison to last gen and these are the ones off the top of my head.

I think you're probably right that the market isn't flooded with FPS games as much as developers have stopped taking risks on other genres.  Games cost a lot to develop and it's getting harder to green light games outside the core genres that sell well this gen (music, WRPG, FPS, TPS, Adventure).  With developers creating less games it's perhaps skewing the figures on home consoles to look like there is more FPS games now than before when in reality the figure probably hasn't risen any in totals just in percentage terms.

Your original statements were pretty absolute "Its being supplemented with additional software" "It wouldn't work on xbox." Without actually know what is and isn't possible on the 360 you might want to refrain from stating definitively that you know something won't work.

Back on topic.

Kinect games should be designed for Kinect controls, no one is saying that Kinect should replace the input method that a game was DESIGNED for.  People constantly talk about how much better a controller is compared to Kinect but would you want to play WoW with a controller?  That would be as fun as trying to play it with Kinect, which is say not very much fun at all, because it was designed to function with a keyboard and mouse. 

As much as people hail the almightly controller (especially it seems in Kinect threads), playing WoW with it would be an exercise in frustration.  So would your conclusion then be that controllers are horrible as an input device?

How soon people forget, there was a time when the thought of playing an FPS on a console with a controller was laughable.  The prevailing opinion was that FPSs couldn't only be played properly by a keyboard and mouse.