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Friday, November 5, 2010

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect Hits Stores

The Microsoft has been launched that latest Xbox 360 motion-sensing controller Kinect with a Times Square extravaganza and high hopes for the device that lets people play video games using their own body movements.

The International Data Corp. has been predicted by the US sales of 2.5 million to 3 million Kinects over the holiday season but the Microsoft want to chance setting it sights even it higher.


Redmnd, Washington-based software giant this week has been boosted its forecast for Kinect sales this quarter 5 million units from 3 million and said it expects it to be the largest and biggest Xbox accessory debut ever.

You may simply played by moving your body for example driving games, the hands as if turning a steering wheel while on-screen figures in dance or sports games mimic body movements.

The Xbox 360 Kinect hits the market on the heels of Sony Playstation 3 Move motion controllers which IDC estimates will sell between 2 million and 2.25 million units by the end of this year.

Both Sony and Microsoft are hoping to cash in on the success of Japan's Nintendo, which pioneered motion controls with its hit Wii consoles in 2006.

The standalone Kinect, which works with the 45 million Xbox 360s already sold worldwide with the costs of $150.

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