Xbox 360 amongst the most promising platforms to have appeared 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 in the beginning greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market (which is currently worth many multiples of billions more per year). These days the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s similarly amazing Playstation, but just lately the stakes were increased with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges 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!