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Xbox 360 Kinect Review and Roundup

2010-11-08
what's up guys this is Jonathan with TLD bringing the full review to the Kinect for the Xbox 360 so to start out you have two options you can pick this up in the bundle for 150 bucks comes to connect itself the Kinect Adventures game and the power adapter for old xbox 360 models now while the old ones do require additional power adapter the new ones are simply plug-and-play doesn't mean your old ones not going to work but if you're interested in picking up a new one you can actually save 50 bucks pick it up with a bundle with the Xbox 299 for the 4 gig or 399 for the 250 gig so as we take a closer look at the connector you guys can see it features an RGB camera a depth sensor and a microphone which allows for the 3d motion capture facial recognition and the voice capture which allows for voice commands and that actually works very well with one of our favorite features from the Kinect so you can go through menus you can work the Xbox Live ESPN that all works really well really seamlessly like I said that part is one of the strongest points of the Kinect thus far one of the downsides with the Kinect is the lack of games currently there's only about six but starting with the 18th of November we'll start to see some more titles hit the Shelf but like I said it does come with Kinect Adventures that game was pretty good you will get bored of it eventually so you will find yourself wanting to go pick up some more games now I'm going to start off the strong points for the Kinect as far as a media experience moving through the menus without a controller that felt really natural and really enjoyed that but as you get into the gaming experience that's where you kind of see a lag at some point there's almost a slight delay and that can be annoying at times for some games you're not going to notice it but for the sports games especially you do notice that lag and that can be quite annoying one thing to take note though is you got to kind of look at this as a beta release Microsoft has said these are still early drivers so they're going to give software updates to hopefully reduce that latency once they do that you can expect it to be a lot more enjoyable so for those of you kind of on the ropes right now if you got the money to spend go out and get it but if you're kind of not sure I would say wait till some more reviews come in wait till the software updates come in we'll be sure to cover that once those do for now ok so this is just an early review we did have a lot more videos covering all different angles of this those are all posted right here so go ahead and click those out check any of those out if you want to if you guys haven't subscribed feel free to do so other than that like I said we'll be covering this once the update comes but I want to give you a kind of preliminary review on the Kinect itself and what we thought of it so far you
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