I am the controller!

[ShadowHM]

We picked up an XBox Kinect for the kids. So far... I'm impressed. We also have a Wii, and the Kinect does better for mapping hit collisions.

Thanks for the recommendation, kandrathe. I tried a Kinect last weekend for the first time at the home of my eldest son (the technophile who buys all things new and techie). We did have fun with it. We played table tennis. We played volleyball. We tried the Olympics - discus, long jump and hurdles. On a couple of occasions it 'lost sight of' my youngest son, much to his annoyance. But I gather that the Wii does occasionally suffer the same problem.

I am, I admit, predisposed to like the Kinect because it has no adjunct gadgets. We do own a Wii. Not only do I find that I dislike holding anything while I am moving about, but I also dislike the clutter. We have four controllers, four steering wheels and four nunchuks (sp?) which (all too often) are left scattered around the room. And I have to allocate storage space for the damn things.

I admit that the notion of buying something (anything) that will be outmoded in a heartbeat irks me. OTOH, I might actually use the Kinect and I have not used the Wii since the weekend it arrived.