These days consoles are more than just for gaming just like an iPad is for more than just checking email. These are multi-media devices.

and i can also bet multimedia features had almost nothing to do with sales of gaming consoles.

primary functions are what sell devices, game consoles sell because of games, and multimedia devices sell because of multimedia, the moment you lose sight of your core your business is drowned in shit, see the gaming crash in the 80s.

Calling it now, Sony's will have two touchscreens.

They just have to support the tablets. The multiplatform games will support tablets by default and it'd be extra win if the Windows 8/Android tablets are compatible so you can buy a peripheral that's actually useful for a change outside of games.

Did you read passed the first sentence? "In marketing language, a gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something "stand out" from its contemporaries. However, the special feature is typically thought to be of little relevance or use. Thus, a gimmick is a special feature for the sake of having a special feature. It began, however, as a slang term for something that a con artist or magician had his assistant manipulate to make appearances different from reality. Such things as the manipulating of a gaming wheel led to the idea of a "gimmick" being used."

Nah, not sure what Sony's goal will be, but MS has kinect and the will to invest in it. It's been quite successful so far and they've managed to build up a decent enough library so far with stuff like Dance Central, Kinect Sports, Gunstringer, Rise of Nightmares, Haunt, Happy Action Theater, Fruit Ninja Kinect, etc. People don't want a big tablet to control their media center, they use tablets for mobile purposes. Nintendo showed us the casual geyser spring, but there will always be a limit, and simply copying every popular product will only damage one's brand in the long run.

Why would you get banned? There isn't really anything bad about what he said.

Sony can do it

EDIT: this MW3 ad at the top of each page is killing me -_-

I'd like to imagine a good portion of those 3million didn't buy the thing for gaming.