Why do people act like the Kinect is the first of its kind to grace the gaming industry?

It's not the first of it's kind.  It's more capable than anything that has come before, as far as hands free goes, and it's packed with every console.  That's the difference maker.

Well we will have toi disagree, early reports are it still has issues, and I think it will still be relegated to mainly gimmicky add-onsand voice control. Full motion gaming is Not going to work.

That's fine.  I'm sure it will have issues--just not as much as Eyetoy, PS Eye, Live Vision, or Kinect 1.0.  I'm not getting a next gen console this year, anyway.  I'm happy with my PS3/360/Wii U (got it last year).  I just see what the potential appeal could be.  I'll wait until the software and reviews come but I'm fairly optimistic.  Microsoft is betting the farm on it so they must know something.

Yes because MS always makes sound decisions look at vista, Zune Windows 8, x1 policies, surface............oh snap. MS are not god nor infallable.

Hey, Zune was friggin awesome!  I don't know why it didn't take off.  I don't think I ever bothered with the other stuff.  I think the products were good but just couldn't find success.  Maybe the same will happen to the Xbox One/Kinect 2.0.  Quality product that nobody wants (ala Vita).

Many of those products were not good, Vista was trash,  as is win 8, as was ME, surface is OK but lacks compared to the competition. Zune was OK, but hardly a reason to leave your ipod. Thats the way kinect is, it's there, it sounds good in theroy, but it doesn't work that well, and is hardly a reason to get an xbox one.

Yeah and I understand that, but when it comes to concrete use the hands-free route has already been remedied because it was found to be finite nearly a decade ago.

Technically speaking, the PSEye and the Move are supposed to be used in tandem for a complete experience, because Sony said themselves back in 2004 the concept of a camera controlling digital movement is finite (hence why they turned down Primesense). Primesense didnt have an answer for them for expanding mini-game use of the peripherals. Even if the camera isn't as powerful the experience quality is higher than even Kinect 2.0 on an exponential level. Kudos to MS bigggggggg time on the marketing though. Sony doesn't give a damn about whether the Move is a commercial success.

Would you believe I have a Move and PSEye?  I agree with you.  It was pretty awesome--I used it alongside my Kinect and my Wii Motion Plus.  I think Wii had the best pointer, the Kinect had the best full body controls, and the Move had the best motion.  Wish Sony would have had more faith in it.  It's been gathering dust since Killzone 3.

I think a lot of people are pretty much done with the motion control trend but I still love it!  Hope the next gen version of motion controls is a success.