Xbox 360 certainly one of the most promising platforms to have come forth at the turn of the century

As one of the most promising platforms to have come about 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 market (which is at this moment worth many multiples of billions more yearly). These days the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s equally notable Playstation, but just lately the stakes were elevated with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers entirely, 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!