Well, to answer your question, it would depend on the hardware and software used in each product. Presently, the Kinect, frustrating as it is, is leagues ahead of the Playstation's vibrator thing. To suggest that the next generation of PS products will somehow be awesome and amazing -- let alone use the same tech as the MS version -- is, to put it as politely as possible, a little bit far fetched.Lord Baal said:
Thank you. Does MS develop the Kinect themselves, or through third-parties? I recall that Sony originally got into the console game after a deal they had to produce a console for somebody else - I think it was Atari, strangely enough - went sour.
I'm sure they use some 3rd party components and get 3rd parties to manufacture the thing, but I don't see why that matters; I don't think it's the right question to ask. Everyone uses 3rd parties for everything these days, and Microsoft are clearly not a manufacturer of anything, much less the cameras, lenses, microphones and so on that comprise the Kinect's hardware. I'm pretty sure they would use 3rd parties for the hardware. But as I said, that doesn't matter. Apple used 3rd party components and 3rd party manufacturers for the iPod and iPhone, too, but it would be hard to argue that those weren't a massive improvement over the standard MP3 player or dumbphone. It took a long time for anything to get close to the iPhone and iPod, so if Sony are playing catch-up (which they are) then it will be a long time before they can compete with the Kinect 2.0. Especially when motion sensors are still very much in their infancy: Microsoft now think that their product is ready for prime time, since they are now sticking one in everyone's living rooms. Sony, OTOH, clearly don't think their own product is ready for prime time, since they are merely sticking one in a bullet point at the bottom of a powerpoint presentation.
Sony tried to partner with Nintendo, the breakdown of that collaboration gave the world the PSone.
