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

As one of the most promising platforms to have shown up 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 right now worth many multiples of billions more every year). As of late the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s equally remarkable Playstation, but recently the stakes were raised 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 motion. The highly sophisticated motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!