I understand it's portable gaming, I just don't really "get" portable gaming in America. Japan it makes sense, everyone rides mass transit and usually for long periods of time. Even when I used to take the bus here, it was only for 10 minutes, which was never enough time to consider playing a game. And at the price of the Vita I just don't really understand it.
It doesnt make sense from your perspective, some ppl in the US have long commutes to work, particularly in cities like Newyork, wish I had a vita when I was waiting for 4 hrs at the DMV, PPl that have jobs with a lot of downtime like twigg n other rent a cops, some ppl inbtwn classes, etc
And the Kinect point is most definitely not semantics. That technology is pretty awesome, it's just being used to make games that are silly time wasters. The difference between that and say, the Wii, is that the Wii technology is pretty much shit AND it was being used to mostly make games that are silly time wasters.
It actually is pretty cool tech, but the only ones to get something useful out of the tech have almost nothing to do with gaming....[ex:http://geeknizer.com/best-kinect-hackmod/]
As far as hardcore gaming is concerned, maybe I shouldn't have called it a myth, but it is a stupid term that only serves to further divide people like terms like "fanboy" or "xbot" and the like. Just not something that I see as necessary.