Xbox 360 considered one of the most promising platforms to have appeared at the turn of the century

As one of the most promising platforms to have appeared 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 present worth many multiples of billions more every year). Today the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s equally amazing Playstation, but just recently the stakes were lifted with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that claims to do away with game controllers completely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen activity. The highly advanced motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!