Xbox 360 considered one of the most promising platforms to have emerged 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 initially greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming sector (which is today worth many multiples of billions more yearly). Today the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s equally superb Playstation, but lately the stakes were elevated with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that promises to do away with game controllers entirely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen activity. The highly leading-edge motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!