Wow, doesn’t that look fun?  By fun of course I mean, lame?  This is coming from someone who really loves DDR, IE a game that involves moving your feet fast and looking dumb.  I suppose the difference is that I’m past the thresh hold of DDR between “looking stupid” and “looking like someone who spends too much time looking stupid”.

The better comparison here is the Wii of course.  The Wii is a great family console!  I get my 5 family members together all the time to play Wii.  Well, I did, a few times, and we haven’t played in any group form for like a year or more probably.  And mostly we played Bowling because there isn’t really room in the family room for 4 people to play Tennis at once and golf and baseball are kind of boring.

I actually really like the Wii though.  There’s one crucial difference of course.  The Wii games I own and play, New Super Mario Brothers Wii, Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers, several Virtual Console titles (mostly centered around Mario), all allow me to play using the Wiimote and Nunchuck or the Gamecube controller.  That is to say, I sit on the couch or in the chair, not jumping around or waving a Wiimote like a goon, playing video games like I always have.  Kinect doesn’t have this option.  It has no controllers.

Pretty much the only benefit I see here is that you won’t have to shell out 40-60 dollars a pop for a second or third damn controller like the current set of systems.