Xbox 360 1 of the most promising platforms to have emerged at the turn of the century

As one of the most promising platforms to have come about 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 marketplace (which is today worth many multiples of billions more every year). Today the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s equally notable Playstation, but recently the stakes were elevated with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that claims to do away with game controllers entirely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen actions. The highly leading-edge motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!