What Nintendo started four years ago with the Wii, both Sony and Microsoft are now attempting to take to the next level with PlayStation Move and Kinect – two vastly different approaches to the motion gaming field. While Microsoft won't be shipping Kinect until November 4, PlayStation Move has been on store shelves since the middle of this month.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars debuted in 2011, and later updated for modern consoles. However, it's the PlayStation 3 edition that stands out.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
Cultured Vultures: "Sadly, not all hardware is created equal, and no matter how much developers might try, some gaming hardware just fails to hit the mark. We’ve compiled a list of 10 gaming hardware fails, and boy did some fail hard."
I would label the Power Glove, Kinect, and that Tony Hawk skateboard more as hardware addons hardware failure would be like the Virtual Boy and one day Stadia.
The picture should be the 360 RROD. When I think of gaming hardware failures that's what springs to mind. Kinect and it's bundled price tag definitely hobbled the already underpowered Xbox One though for sure so I would give it a close second place.
Lol I had the Atari Jaguar, surprised its "competition" the 3DO isn't on the list too, both as "popular" as each other.
Stadia is a weird one. It hasn’t sold at all well but in terms of how it works it’s still miles ahead of Xcloud in terms of stability and performance. Xcloud is still a way behind and that needs sorting but it will be in time. Stadia for me is one of those things that will go down as a what could have been moments. With better marketing it could have been a roaring success. I still play it and it remains the best place in my opinion to play CyberPunk 2077. Only platform I have played it on without having any issues at all. The tech is great. The concept is fine. Marketing terrible. Shame really.
The Xbox One was Microsoft’s Nintendo Wii U. Undercooked, undersold and just an unholy mess. The thing is with any of these failures is to learn from them and thankfully both Nintendo and Xbox did just that to the benefit of gamers everywhere.
Interesting write up. I pretty much agree with the author that Move works well, but I just don't see it selling a ton.
look at the sales of the wii, people want that. the biggest difference, to me, is that the wii does not have any hardcore games, its for kids mostly. the move is more precise, the graphics are better, and there are casual games and hardcore games that utilize the controller. My parents are almost 70 and my dad and mother played a video game for the first time, it was wii bowling, he asked me how much it would cost to get a wii, I told him about the playstation move and getting the bundle is cheaper than getting a wii. so the demand is there.
another point is microsoft's kinect. good direction but you still want feedback, I pretty sure one company is going to bring back the power glove, or gloves that can give you texture and feel. the technology does exsist, something I think microsoft should have invested in before introducing kinect.
It will sell well enough. It is just a controller. It doesn't have to sell 10 million or anything. As long as their is interest in it and Sony and the developers support it,it will be fine.I don't know where people got the idea Sony was competing directly with the Wii. I never heard them say that up to this day.
The move indeed is good hardware, but since A LOT of gamers dont go on gaming sites, I bet you tons of people don't know sony's move but know kinect, its because microsoft has been advertising more. This morning I saw a kinect ad 3 times on tv.
That said, I just cant see move selling A lot, but enough to keep sony happy.
@below - really? then their showing it to the wrong people, as many people say, "it caters to the hardcore". Sure it also shows casual games, but at the moment I dont see one i like.
the only thing that will sell wii numbers is the 3ds. It will be an epidemic how well it sells. I see kinect catching on for xmas and selling well but not wii numbers. Move will do alright over time.