Xbox 360 Kinect

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Reviews for the Xbox 360 Kinect are pouring in and it’s confirmed, the Kinect is a huge hit! There are over 400 5-star reviews on Amazon alone and the Kinect has only been available for less than 3 months. And actually, to give credit where credit is due, there are almost 600 reviews with an average rating of 4.5 stars. In fact, even the critical review voted most helpful gave it a 3 star rating.

Take a look at what some of the Xbox 360 Kinect customer reviews had to say:

For years my teens have enjoyed playing XBOX 360 games that neither my wife nor I could relate to (HALO, etc.). I purchased this controller and a 2nd game (Kinect Sports) and now the whole family can’t wait for that hour after dinner to enjoy a round of bowling, boxing, or even track and field competition. My wife and I are 50-somethings and this is the first time we have really enjoyed gaming with the kids. I am very happy about this purchase.

Simply a lot of fun, and gets my butt off the couch. Unlike the Wii, you’re actually going to have to exercise with this! 

We bought the Kinect for Xbox 360 for use as a family game. For our sons, we got them Kinect sports, which has soccer, beach volleyball, bowling, table tennis, track and field, and boxing. They love it, and we love the fact that they are off of the couch and jumping around getting some much needed exercise during this long, cold Winter. For my wife and I we got the “Your Shape Fitness Evolved”, which is great because you can work up a pretty good sweat worthy of a true workout.

This truly is a revolutionary piece of equipment and will get you gaming like never before!

You would think that the answer to the question, “how much does the xbox 360 kinect cost?” would be a simple and straightforward one. But it turns out that it isn’t.

The price tag that the manufacturer, Microsoft, put on the Kinect is $150. But if you’ve been shopping around for one you’ll soon realize that you’ll see prices anywhere from $190 to $300. And that’s assuming that you can actually order one because almost every store, both online and offline is out of stock.

This situation has been created by the fact that Microsoft underestimated the popularity, and subsequently the demand, for the Kinect. So while they scramble to produce more of these amazing controllers, the price for them seems to be on a rollercoaster.

It appears that the going rate is around $200.00 (including shipping) on Ebay. And for now, this price seems to be holding on Amazon also. Since the prices are about the same, it’s probably a good idea to take advantage of Amazon’s excellent customer support and return policy. Although you can get some good deals on Ebay, you never really know who you’re dealing with and how difficult it might be to get service if there’s a problem with the shipment or the product.

My recommendation if you really want to get an Xbox 360 Kinect for Christmas this year, is to go ahead and order one now. You may be kicking yourself that you didn’t pre-order one when they were $150, but as it gets closer to Christmas, you could conceivably be looking at prices in the $300′s. And then the current $200 price tag will look cheap and you’ll be kicking yourself even harder

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Mark Wilson, of Gizmodo, recently tried out the new Kinect for the Xbox 360 and found it to be a revolutionary new piece of gaming hardware. As he says, “I’ve never felt that a computer understood me—a flesh-and-bone human—so well.” Here’s what he had to say about the Kinect Adventures and Sports games:

“I can’t remember the last time I jumped so high. Kinect Adventures looked so lame in Microsoft’s press conference just two days ago. But now I find myself leaping and lunging like a stuck lamb to win. I’m frolicking.

Hop to go faster. Dodge left to slide by a bumper. A glance to my right to eye my competition who, a few moments before, had shared a raft with me as we negotiated a path down a river, leaning and jumping in tandem—another unexpectedly enjoyable experience.

My heartbeat quickly accelerating, I realized something: The Wiimote rewards gamers’ proficiency at exercising the least possible physical exertion—indeed, if you get too frantic the Wiimote can stop registering your motions altogether—while with Kinect, I found myself exaggerating everything.

The experience of Kinect Sports is much the same—I underestimated the title’s fun until I actually tried it out. Less like Wii Sports than Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, a track-and-field-style hurdle game requires me to pump my knees high into the air, then jump at appropriate times, then pump my knees some more. While Kinect’s lag means I have to make my leaps earlier than expected, the frenetic and earnest competition (a testament to Kinect’s accuracy and Kinect Sports’ game design) keeps it fun.

There’s something very special about using Microsoft’s Kinect system, something that separates it from every other combination of software and hardware I’ve ever used. Kinect adapts and accommodates the user. I’m not learning it; it’s learning me.

Maybe I’m tossing around the word “learn” a bit too liberally. Kinect actually works because it’s already learned how humans move thanks to Microsoft’s (Prime Sense’s) research—intelligence is built into the box before I step in front of it.”

And the best thing about Kinect Adventures is that now Microsoft has bundled it with the Kinect itself. So you don’t even have to pay extra for it.