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August
Xbox 360 no doubt 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 originally greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market (which is these days worth many multiples of billions more every year). Currently the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s equally impressive Playstation, but recently the stakes were increased with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that promises to do away with game controllers once and for all, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen activity. The highly sophisticated motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!