The Wii is purely popular because it doesn't require you to know a ton of buttons.

These systems are marketed to the mass public, not gamers. Casual players don't want to have to read a manual and have a whole thing explained to them before the game starts.

And ensuring that everyone has a product in their home makes development for the product worthwhile.

If 100% of a client base has something to use, then people catering to that base will find ways to implement and improve it.

If 10% of a client base owns the product and 90% do not, there is zero incentive to devote time to it.

Hence, the Kinect will be developed and catered to. The eye will fall by the wayside, like the kinect for the 360. (This doesn't mean the new kinect will be a success. Just in strictly business terms, the eye has zero chance.)

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Posted by UltimateHog

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Posted on 9/2/13 at 9:18 pm to hehateme2285

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The Wii is purely popular because it doesn't require you to know a ton of buttons.

The Wii was popular with little kids and old people as an arcade system. No one owned a Wii for Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc. The biggest games in the industry, their sales for the Wii were next to zero. Why? Because no one wants to play using motion controls on those games. That is why it has no future, on console or PC.

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These systems are marketed to the mass public, not gamers. Casual players don't want to have to read a manual and have a whole thing explained to them before the game starts.

Correct, which is why $100 cheaper has the PS4 ahead 2:1 in preorder sales alone. People and mass consumers don't give a shite about a Kinect for voice commands and some motion control, they'd rather save the $100 and if they want that down the road then have that option and could get one used at a Gamestop or eBay for $30ish.

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