Touchpad keyboards are still inferior to hardware keyboards and are only made remotely bearable by employing smart prediction algorithms. The advantages of touchpads lie in scrolling capabilities and the space you are able to safe by not having a physical keyboard. There's a reason people are still prefering mouse and keyboard when it comes to productive work or gaming...
That's your opinion (as well as their opinion). There are people that feel that touchpad is faster for typing on phones (since you just tap instead of physically pushing down) and like touchscreens better for multiple situations.
That's all that these next gen consoles are giving via their features -- they aren't trying to replace anything. They are just giving multiple ways for various people to do things; many of which can be more convenient in certain situations (whether in games or in the console's main interface).
Gears of War Kinect; Halo Kinect; Last of Us Kinect;
Something along these lines when it comes to quality, core focus and broad appeal while making full use of Kinect like Dance Central... not some tacked on functionality.
A decent number (especially here) would consider those games/series shallow "AAA" games.
Also, the game I mentioned before (Gunstringer) makes full use of kinect and was pretty fun to play. But again, since it doesn't fit the typical "AAA" gaming mold then I guess that game wouldn't be "core" to you.
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Console manufacturers paying money to help with development? Lack of competition?
You think this isn't/won't be true for any future games that aren't just "traditional core"?
