Project Natal on 360 allows motion control through full body motion capture, and has voice recognition. Allows control of both games and the dashboard. It is a camera and sensor assembly that recognizes faces, body movements, objects, and even voices. Development kits are arriving at Microsoft partners today.
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Microsoft lowers shipment targets due to unsold inventory in stores
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The Xbox 360 saw sales of 11,291 units for the week, bringing its total up to 54,793 and far out pacing the PS3, which sold 8275 units for the week and only 31,798 units for the month.
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Rumored 60GB Xbox 360 and price cut. Links included in article.
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Senior industry analysts have voiced concerns over the future of Microsoft's Xbox business, labeling the US firm's attempts to market 360 to casual audiences "disastrous" (Specifically DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole), and predicting that the console will "start to struggle in the market" (Specifically DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole), over the coming year.
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Microsoft's new 199 Euro's Xbox 360 packs with 2 games and 2 wireless controllers are in fact OLD machines. After opening 10 of them, they found that the machines have been converted to new and all have non-falcon motherboards, old Hitachi 47 or Samsung MS25 drives and the repair center sticker on them.
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Microsoft has released their fiscal data for the year and in this report they revealed that the Xbox 360 has sold over 40 million units worldwide since the consoles launch in 2005. 2005-06 - 5.0 Million Units 2006-07 - 11.6 Million Units 2007-08 - 20.3 2008-09 - 31.4 2009-10 - 40.2
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The weeks long connection troubles many Xbox Live users have experienced since the holidays was due, according to Microsoft, to heavy Xbox Live server load brought on by a record number of users attempting to access the service. Xbox group marketing manager Albert Penello told us that "It's wasn't a malicious thing." He explained "We had the biggest concurrent day we've ever had on Live.
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According to The Bitbag, Microsoft will be compensating their Xbox LIVE Gold customers for the problems the service has been having over the holiday—somehow.
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Call of Duty 4 is one of the most intense videogames of all time. Its single-player campaign, while short, still delivers moments of cinematic drama and sheer intensity the likes of which Xbox 360 owners had never seen.
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