They are pretty late considering Google Glass is already being tested in univesities, etc...

The Kinect was a fad like the Wii. Their popularity was destined to come and go until the next fad comes along. Microsoft forced bundled it to make a profit. Microsoft doesnt like products that dont make a profit that they invest heavily into. They are saying third parties have incentive to buy games for it but its not like its selling the console or anything.

Another thing about these pics.

If you look at the initial reveal of Kinect - what it was supposed to do, and more importantly, the image they created of that product, NATAL, initially,

then you'd realize that something like this

which is at a waaaay more early-concept stage than Natal was when it was revealed

is never going to materialise in this way.

(you already have the dates on those pics that prove it)

Kinect 2.0 is awesome, most of the people who complain about it, never used it.

I think the thought train with the comment you commented on is slightly disjoint.

But ok.

It's a roadmap, of course it's concept ideas. Don't get me wrong, as a die-hard Sony fanboy myself, I want to see Xbone fail. Dropping Kinect would spell doom and be a PR nightmare that I want to see happen.
I really could care less what M$ does, I'm in love with Sony. Don't be jealous because I can think outside of my own bias.

Still jealous...

Congratulations on your unique speculations I suppose.

(I thought you were serious)

Mkay. (assuming you're serious)

Well ok, let's be real here for a moment...

I want Sony to be very successful and *ahem* win too. Mainly because they are always doing cool tech things (see morpheus) and giving developers free reign (as they've almost always done) and also because I'd rather have my money go to a Japanese product than an American one. 

But hoping the Xbone "fail(s)"... I dunno. I suppose I'd have Nintendo be more successful than MS (for very obvious reasons) too, so I suppose a 20% marketshare for MS would be fine if I could control the universe. The original Xbox was awesome for me. I had it along with PS2 and GC (fun times). And 360 was fantastic until about 2010 when the Forza/Gears/Halo/Fable-is-all-your-gonna-get nonsense started. The whole Kinect thing made me dislike the brand. Kinect=/=Natal, i.e. MS lied. And they've lied since. And they'll lie again.

I actually dislike MS for reasons outside of their Xbox dept. Windows is the biggest scam pulled on humanity since the moonlanding - and I don't know if the moonlanding was a scam at all. Point is, companies, Universities and families spend BILLIONS of dollars for something that is free somewhere else... *Ubuntu* *cough* *Ubuntu*. And it would be fine, but then they make a new OS and sell it to people when the old one was perfectly fine. A mega corporation sitting in board meetings speculating how to increase revenue without actually offering the customer anything. And before anyone pulls the "all companies try to get your money" card, there's a MASSIVE difference between a hardware and a software company. (of course MS makes some hardware nowadays - I'm specifically referring to their OS which is just BS)

Ego's.