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 in the beginning greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market (which is at present worth many multiples of billions more each year). Today the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s just as amazing Playstation, but lately the stakes were lifted 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 action. The highly advanced motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!