Kinect ruining kids fun?

When I was about 8 The Phantom Menace came out in cinema's. and for the rest of the year me and all my friends did nothing but pretend to be Jedi (we were to young to realize who shit the film was).
Now fresh of the Microsoft E3 press conference the one thing that struck me was how much all the new Kinect specific games were like things I played as a child; I played Fable: The Journey and Ryse when Lord of the Rings came out and Star Wars Kinect when the Phantom Menace came out.
But I didn't play these on an Xbox. I used my imagination to pretend. Something all children do. Now I'm not usually for all these; 'Video Games are evil! Kill them all!' nonsense but titles squarely aimed at kids like the sickening Kinect Disneyland farce have the potential to deprive future generations of the kind of free, good natured fun I had as a youth.
My first console was my uncle's second hand PS1 in 2001. I was 10, and had had time to let my young mind create it's own entertainment. I didn't start 'hardcore' gaming until my early teens and am glad for it. Video games are like television; one shouldn't sit their 5 year old in front of it and hope they'll grow up a normal person.
The more we detach our youth from reality the more harmful the consequences will surely be. Taking away a child's ability to create their own worlds and doing it all for them is surely damaging to their early learning and socializing. And it's stoopid to pay for a Kinect and Ryse when I could buy a toy sword and pwn noobs in a park.

I totally understand what you mean. Really good points, I mean I played pc and stuff as a kid so I could do things I couldn't do in real life. Like I could hop into a helicopter game and fly around shooting enemies or I could go on gta and kill some random civilians or alternatively go onto lba2 and punch some babies. There wasn't the biggest selection and variation of video games back then so I relied a lot on my own imagination and normal childhood play to entertain me while playing the odd game here and there. It seems that now these game developers aim to keep kids stuck indoors playing kinect. :S I'm not going to vote against it or anything lol but yes it is not ideal for future generations.

AH THE DREADED WALL OF TEXT. You really should consider adding TL;DR summaries at the bottom or start using line breaks.

But anyways I did read it and I think it's actually the other way around. I think video games help further and improve one's imagination. Just because you're stuck indoors doesn't mean you can't have imagination. In fact when I was little I always dreamed of creating my own video games and would write down ideas in a notebook and pretend play with my friends.

I highly doubt Kinect is going to be making kids stuck in front of a tv for 5 hours a day.

Slightly off topic, if it did it would sure help childhood obesity lol. I think if I had a kid I'd probably get them a Kinect just for that instead of playing normal games 3 hours everyday. I live in a rural area so there isn't a lot to do outside.

In addition Kinect is meant to be played with other people, not yourself. Kinect is very social and wouldn't hinder growth in any way.