Recently, I've noticed that Kinect is going the same way as the Wii. An advert I endured with bored, glazed-over eyes spurned me to write this post after I noticed an eerie similarity between Nintendo's console and Microsoft's peripheral. Let me name the culprit: Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, by Ubisoft.

Yes - Fitness Evolved may convince even the most grossly-obese basement dweller to throw away the food-stained headset in favour of some healthy exercise, but the fact remains that, like the Wii, Kinect may become quickly swamped with so-called 'fitness' games which could dilute the few good gaming experiences Kinect offers.

This situation is incredibly similar to the Wii's. Any informed gamer can spout forth a list of widely-accepted 'good' games - Mario Kart, Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Country Returns - but for each quality title, there are five pieces of shovelware which muddy the waters of the gaming market and force well-meaning gamers into making conversation with the 40 year-old whose Balance Board is groaning in pain from underneath. It's a problem.

So, there you have it. An issue which could affect Microsoft's already-wilting, not-so-big-in-Japan, peripheral which has already come under fire from people other than dedicated Sony fanboys and internet trolls. Sadly, we could be seeing more games in the vein of Fitness Evolvedon Kinect before the hardware really has a chance to get established and release some five-star titles, something which would inevitably happen given enough time.