Xbox 360 no doubt one of the most promising platforms to have appeared at the turn of the century

As one of the most promising platforms to have surfaced at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was at the start greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming marketplace (which is now worth many multiples of billions more annually). Right now the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s just as superb Playstation, but lately the stakes were increased with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that claims to do away with game controllers entirely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen action. The highly superior motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!