Xbox 360 undoubtedly one of the most promising platforms to have shown up at the turn of the century

As one of the most promising platforms to have shown up at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was at first greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market place (which is at this moment worth many multiples of billions more each year). Currently the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s similarly exceptional Playstation, but just recently the stakes were increased with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers completely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen actions. The highly leading-edge motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!