Email: Kinect and Move are wasteful

It is amazing to me how neither Sony or Microsoft “get it”. Competing with Nintendo on motion control is one thing, but doing it by simply taking Nintendo’s best sellers list and copying it is absolutely retarded. Do they really think they are going to capture marketshare away from Nintendo? Do they really think they are going expand any market? Or were they just satisfying shareholder demands to tack on “better” motion controls and sell to some grannies? It has to be that because why else would they just phone it in like that? I think they are trying to fail just so they can say “See, casuals don’t buy games! Make more Halo!”. It is just retarded.
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Do these companies really have so much R&D money to burn in this economy? I would kill to be able to fail as hard as these guys do and still be able to eat at the end of the day. For all of Nintendo’s blunders, at least they aren’t burning money on such ridiculous amounts of fail.
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Malstrom, is this the end of Sony and Microsoft in the console game?  I, personally, have already seen the retreat of the hardcore back to PC gaming. Is it just Nintendo and Popcap games now? Plants VS Zombies is all sorts of awesome btw.
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While we love our fellow gamers who populate the message forums, we would never wish to give them millions of dollars so they can ‘undertake’ their stated ideas. There was a commercial for a ‘game university’ that came out in the late 80s early 90s where some kids were playing a game and then shouted back, “Tell them to bump the graphics on level 3!” and then one would say to another, “God, I love designing video games.”

It was something like this:

The modern equivalent to that commercial are forum dwellers saying things like ‘Time to increase sales for this console. Let’s bump up the advertising.’ Yes, just like that. It sounds like Sony and Microsoft’s business response to the Wii is identical to forum dwellers. “Let’s just make a ‘BETTER’ Wii-mote.” “Let’s trump the Wii by using your ENTIRE BODY by not using any controllers at all!” “Yeah!” “Yeah!” And they high five one another.

If you gave the average forum dweller a hundred million dollars and told them to make a response to Wii, they probably would have made Kinect and Move exactly.

As for hardcore being driven back to PC gaming, well, let’s see once these devices are released to the public.