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These are all quality ideas, especially Kinect, but they needed to be shelved until the next gen launch (however far away that might be).
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I do agree on the fact they need time to perfect it, but from a business standpoint it makes 100% sense. Entirely. In no way does it not make any sense for either company to do this.
The Wii is popular with children, and adults. This is a known fact. The 360 and PS3 aren't really aimed towards children
or adults directly, not to mention neither system has any type of motion control as it is.
Before you dive straight into anything [Unless you're Nintendo], you typically want to see how a new type of
anything will sell, especially if it pushes boundaries on a market that has relied on controllers for 20+ years. If they were to make the Kinect the next gen console, and hold off for 3 years to release it to a giant gasping yawn of a market because nobody wants full-body motion gaming, they'd fail utterly. This way they get to test the waters. Not only will it show them how many people that own 360's will buy Kinect, but how many 360 units a Kinect will sell just by existing.
If these numbers are deeply underwhelming, I can see Sony and Microsoft making motion control take a back seat to controller gaming. While if they take off like wildfire, they will most likely make 'body gaming' the main focus of the next system over 'controller gaming'.