[freehunter]

"No more room for innovation" could have been said about everything in history. After the cell phone came out, there was no more room for innovation because it was a handheld device that fit in your pocket and let you make calls anywhere. What more do you want? After Windows Mobile, it was a pocket computer that let you program and install applications and browse the web. What more do you want?

The reason it's easy to discount past innovations and say that hardware is perfect now is because past innovations have already been developed. They've already been made, and they already exist. They're obvious now. Future innovations are not obvious, that's why they're innovations. The better software called for in the blog post is just minor iterations like a new Madden (that's a really innovative game). Meanwhile, the Kinect has already been made, so of course the Xbox is perfect and hardware is dead. Pay no attention to the fact that Kinect wouldn't have existed if people thought the same way you do.