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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
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Oh yes. Absolutely. Call me pessimistic if you want, but I can see it all now: Kinect comes out, then the Move, and the casual market eats it all up. With one taste of the billions from casual gamers, Sony and Microsoft quickly change direction from the PS360 being consoles for mature gamers who cut their teeth on Super Mario Bros and the like to HD family fun machines. One of two things will happen:
- Nintendo will finally wise up and realize that they've got to offer something Kinect and PlayStation Move don't, like maybe deeper games that use motion control in an intelligent manner rather than a gimmicky novelty, either on the Wii or a new console, or go the way of their former rivals SEGA or simply die completely.
- Nintendo will not change course on the Wii, but rather cut slash its price, allowing them to theoretically maintain headway above Sony and Microsoft, and in the meantime the core market dwindles to a few games a year, since the former "hardcore consoles" are now embracing the casual market. Sounds like what happened with PC gaming...
Granted scenario 1 is probably wishful thinking and scenario 2 is a worst case scenario, but Kinect and Move have the potential to change things, and probably not for the better. Congratulations, Nintendo, you may inadvertantly kill the market you helped invent.
CORE GAMING 1986-2010
It was fun while it lasted...