Xbox 360 amongst the most promising platforms to have emerged at the turn of the century

As one of the most promising platforms to have emerged at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was originally greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market place (which is today worth many multiples of billions more annually). These days the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s similarly exceptional Playstation, but lately the stakes were lifted with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that promises to do away with game controllers altogether, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen motion. The highly advanced motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!